The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-20
BY WASHINGTON IN HIS LATEST ATTEMPT TO FIND SOME BA-
 SIS FOR PEACE.
HOPE FOR RECONCILIATION
Of the Huerta and Carranza Factions Is Voiced by President Wilson When Negotiations We're Opened with John Lind Again.


 States government will welcome a re- opening of negotiations with the Huerta government or the constitu- tionalists and will be glad to con slider any proposal that will tend to draw the various factions together into a plan for the restoration of peace in Mexico.
 This is the attitude President Will, son revealed today after reports reached here saying Senor Jose Por- tillo y Rogas, minister for foreign af- fairs in the Huerta cabinet, had gone to meet John Lind, MT. Wilson's per sonal representative, to seek a resump- tion of the peace parleys.
 Senor Rojas has been mentioned as the man wlo would succeed Huerta if he retired and the object of the visit to Mir. Lind it has been reported, was to acquaint the presidents en- voy with his personality. Incident ally, the president in talking with cal lers today while remarking that he had no official report of any new par leys, spoke in complimentary terms of the Mexican minister of foreign affairs as a man of higl character.
 What the president emphasizes in his informal discussions oa the Mexi- can situation is that he, as president of the United States, has never sought to approve or disapprove of individ- uals who may aspire to the presi- dency of Mexico and that he has no list of men whom he has under the so-called ban because of alleged com plicity in the assassination of Ma dero.
 His refusal to recognize Huerta. 1t may be stated on the highest author. ity, was not based on any personal antagonism to Huerta, but on the ground that the constitutionalists would never be reconciled to che man who had overthrown Madero and Sua- reg and that governments set up by arbitrary force and not reflecting the popular will should not be dealt with by the United States.
 Likewise in the consideration of in- individuals who might seek the rec ognition by the United States, the principle President Wilson has been working on is that recognition extend ed to any one set up in the prest dency without some popular eXpres- sio nor without the endorsement of of all factions could not lead to peace
 fin considering peace proposals rom the Huerta government, the united States it is known now will do all that it can to forward a peaceful set clement, but the conviction is as strong with the president today as it was when he sent his instructions to John Lind last summer that peace in Mexi' CO., in the last analysis is dependent upon terms that will be acceptable alike to the constitutionalists and the Huerta administration
 He recognizes that the value of all proposals depends upon how far such plans seek to draw the Mexican fac tions together in commo nagreemen1 upon a provisional president who can conyoke elections or rehabilitate the machinery in way that would be endorsed by the Mexican people generally.
 One of the suggestions made to President Wilson lately contemplates the sending of commission of Amer jeans of prominence to investigate in Mexico. Unofficial re- norts have had it that both Carranza and Huerta would receive such q com mission. President Wilson is care cnllv considering the suggestion, said to have been made originally by US cor c Straus. former ambassador to.l Turkey and prominent in the move ment for world peace The president if is known, would be glad to send such a commission if it could assist | the Mexican factions in arriving at an aereement, but it is believed he feels that actual peace proposals must necessarily originate with the Mexl ran factions and that unless the com mission were invited to go to Mexico' I,s errand would be fruitless, media lion of the same sort having previous v beep rejected by both Mexican rae lions.