The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-23
Rebels and Federals to Meet
in Informal Conference
at Niagara Falls
INTERNAL PEACE
OBJECT OF MEETING
Believed Plan Stands Excellent Chance
of Being Successful-WillW Work
Outside of Regular
Mediation

Niagara Fallhs Oht, ""e
Through the Invitation of the United
STATES government and the good oiiices
of the three south American media
tors. representatives of the two war
ring factions In Mexico-the consfitu-
tionaIists and the Huerta government
soon will be brought face to face In nm
.,sorm.r conference distinct from the
mediation proceedings.
To save Mexico from further spolia-
zion and the possibility of a foreign war
the constitutionalists apparently nave
been prevailed upon to meet their couh-
trvmen-the Huerta delegates-in con-
ference. whose object shall be the end
ing of the Mexican civil strife. The be-
lief is general that this plan stands an
excellent chance of being carried to sue
cess If recent differences between Gen.
erals Villa and Carranza are sufficiently
composed to guarantee that the constitu-
tionalist delegation may work without
embarrassment.
Formative State
Arrangements for the meeting are IN
formative state. The mediators ana
American and Huerta delegates, however,
believe that by tomorrow or "Wednesday
at the latest, they will be able to an
nounce not only the personnel of the
constitutionalist delegation, but the place
of meeting and it's general purposes. The
plan has buoyed the hopes of the princi-
pals to mediation. The South American
envovs discussed 1t briefly with the Amer
ican delegates today, and later conferred
with the Huerta delegates, who were
asked formally il they would meet con-
stitutionalist representatives. The Huer-
ia delegates replied they We're willing to
enter any conference with their country
men which had for it's object the pre-
yention of bloodshed and the destruction
of property and sought to establish a
national government on a firm basis.
The plan the mediaters have worked
out is to confine the formal mediation
conference to a consideration of interna-
tional questions, treating with the Huerta
and American delegates on these points.
On internal questions the Huerta and
constitutionalist delegates would be ex-
pected to confer alone. The mediators
and the American delegates would not
interfere with the settlement of prob
lens confined to the country, but would
lend their counsel whenever it would be
helpful.
With the constitutionalist and Huerta
delegates discussing names for the pro-
visional presidency and kindred interna-
tional questions, the mediators and Amer
Jean delegates would await the outcome
of their efforts before signing final
protoctol.
May Head Delegation
Fernando Iglesas Calderon is expected
to head the Carranza delegation. He Is
due in Washington tomorrow. Although
there was no official announcement here,
it was understood that General Carranza
through Luis Cabrera, his Washington
representative, had given his assent to
the plan of holding conferences separate
from the mediation, and that details were
being worked out now by telegraph
1t was virtually certain that no armis
tice will be declared by the constitutions
alists until an agreement of a definite
character is reached in the informal con.
ferences as to the establishment of the
provisional government. On arriving al
such an understanding it would be ex.
pected that a general suspension of hos.
tilities and guaranty of amnesty woult
be proclaimed. and the constitutionalisi
delegates then might be formally admit
ted to the mediation proceedings for the
signing of the final protoctol, recording
the solution of the differences between
Mexico and the United States