The Penn's Grove record., 1914-05-08
NIAGARA FALLS
PEACE CITY
Mediation Conference to Meel
in Canada May 10
FOR PACIFICATION OF MEXICO
Note Shows That the Door Has Been
Left Open for Constituencies
Chief to Come in Later if
He So Desires.

Observation-Disclosures Falls. Ont,
has been selected as the place where
the mediators will confer with the
representatives of the different par
til interested in Mexican mediation.
The conference will begin on May IS.
Announcement of the pace and date
OF meeting was made by Mr.. Bryan
IN a formal statement issued from
the Department of State. The text
OF the note ent by the "A, B, C" me-
diators to- General Carranza shows
that while the invitation Of the medi-
ators to Carranza to send representa-
tives to the conference has been with
drawn as ''inopportune," the mediat-
Ing governments intend to take into
consideration the pacifcation of Mex
leo as well as the differences between
the United States and the Huerta
government and that the door has
been open for Carranza to come III.
Carranza has accepted mediation
Gin principle His refusal to agree
to an armistice does not prevent such
proposal for settlement as the medi-
ators may formulate being submitted
to him later on, provided, of course,
he is the recognized head of the
constttutionalist movement at the
time a decision is reached.
In their note to General Carranza,
the mediating ministers say
I've have received your telegram
in which you are kind enough to tell
us that you deem it i~nconvenient for
the constitutionalist cause to suspend
hostilities against General Huerta on
the ground thai such suspension
would only accrue to the benefit of
Huerta, and in which you declare
that the International conflict between
Mexico and the United States, for
whose solution you accepted our good
offices, is independent of the internal
strife in that country. We consider
this unexpected statement as incon-
sistent with the idea which caused
us to offer our good offices. We think
indeed, that all the difficulties which
have contributed toward the present
situation in Mexico bear directly or
indirectly on the solution of the pend
ing conflict between Mexico and the
United States. Consequently, we
think that these difficulties should
be made subject of considera-
ton of the negotiations for whose sue
cessful conduct we have deemed it in
d~ispensable to suspend hostilities.
Should you not deem it so, we
would be compelled in that case 20
withdraw as inopportune our invita-
ton for the appointment of a repre-
sentative of the constitutionalists in
such negotiations. We beg to assure
you of our highest consideration"
Now that the first steps toward a
mediatory settlement have been taken,
President Wilson and Mr.. Bryan are
anxious that it should prove a sue
cess. So every possible wire" is now
being pulled to induce the constitu-
tionalist first chief to contribute to
its success.
Mediation can proceed without sus-
pension of hostilities between revo
%lutionists and the Huerta forces, but
the mediating governments realize
that a suspension of hostilities would
greatly facilitate the work they have
undertaken.
AS matters stand now, the negotia-
lions have become limited to the diff
~ferences between the United States
and Gen. Huerta growing out of the
indignity offered to the Stars and
Stripes at Tampico. But the media
tors, following the suggestion con
tanned in Secretary Bryan's note OF
April %, insist that the whole Mexi-
can problem is within the scope OF
their effort to bring about peace.