The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-07-21

WASHINGTON, July 2l.-Gen. Car
lanza Yesterday informed the United
States government that he was ready
to declare a suspension of hostilities
against the government OF Provisional
President CarbaiaI, Huerta s success
sor, pending negotiations with his rep
resentatives for the transfer of au-
thoritv at Mexico City to the constitu-I
tionalists. The constitutionalist chief
expressed his views in most cordial
terms to John r. Silliman, PERSONAL
representative of President Wilson, and
Consul General Hanna and Vice Consul
Robertson, who interViwed him at
Monterey. Not only did he voice Il
Willingness to receive the commission
OF three appointed by Carbajal to dis
cuss peace, but said he would send an
escort to meet them and provide safe
conduct through constitutional terri
tory.
lnasmuch as the Carbajal commits
sioners are constitutiOnalists who have
been hiding in Mexico City and are
thoroughly in accord with Gen. Car
rama s policies as we'll as personal
fr:.nds of Mr.. Carbaial, the impress
sion now is general that the negotia-
tions for a transfer of authority of
government will be successful Gen.
Carranza is insisteut, however, that the
surrender of the Carbajal government
should be unconditional. lie is willing,
his representatives declare, to grant Il
limited amnesty, not as a condition of
su. render but as 4 voluntary act of
generosity ON the part of the constitu-
| tionalists after they obtain the reins
| of government The constitutionalists
| intend to give guarantees of safety to
| the people generally, but to prosecute
| ringleaders in the plot through which
| Madero was overthrown. Most of the
| latter, however, already have left Mex
| iico.
| Apprehension over reports that the
| followers Of Zapata, the southern rebel
| were dangerously near the capital, was
| somewhat relieved by dispatches from
| Mexico City declaring recent state
merits of the activities of the Ia
| patistas We're exaggerated. ENJOYS
| from Carranza now are in touch with
| Iapata, seeking to turn his sympathy
/ toward the constitutionalst cause.
fernando Iglesias Calderon and
| Luis Cabrera, two confidential advisers
OF Gen. Carranza, will leave Washing
ton tomorrow or Thursday for Mon
terey. They, together with Jose Vas
comedies, who is now with Gen. Car.
ranza, were named as n commission IL
participate in the Niagara Falls me
| Giation, if constitutionaiists were adj
mitted there. Mr.. Calderon declared
yesterday that he believed Gen. Car
rama would call on the same commits
sion to act for him in parleys with the
delegation sent by Mr.. Carbajal.
Ghe Niagara Falls Protocol
fundamentally, Secretary Bryan saic
thai the protocol signed at Niagara
| Falls, agreeing to recognize govern
ment set up by agreement of the tive
| Mexican factions, would become effec
tive if a satisfactory agreement wer,
reached in conferences between tho
Carranza and Carbajal delegates. Mr.
Bryan remarked, however, that tn,
American government would make II,
statement of policy until an agreemen
actually was reached and the terms O
it had been examined. ambassador d;
CANA of Brazil, after comforting Will
Secretary Bryan, said that from hi
point of View mediation formally end
Ell with the resignation Of Gen
Huerta, but that he hoped the proto
col with reference to an agreement be
tween the two Mexican factions woul
be vitalized soon.
Although the subject Of financial oh
{ legations incurred by the Huerta gov
f eminent has not been officially take
| up in Washington. Secretary Bryan
told inquirers that the American gov
eminent, along with the constitution
: alists, had notified the world that con
: | cessions or financial transactions of tn
| Huerta government would not be rec
| ognized as legal after October II
| 1913, soon after the dictator dissolve
| Congress. 1t is believed that tn
| United States may intercede on behal
| of European creditors whose transaC
tons occurred before October 10, bu
| will not use its influence for those VIII
subsequently entered into business rela
| tions with the Huerta government