The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-07-01
TAKE A new STEP
CARRANZA REFUSES TO DISCUSS
INTERNAL AFFAIRS.
HOPE they MAY Agree
United States to Go as Far as Pos
sibIe and Then Place Burden Of
Breaking Negotiations Directly
Upon the Representatives of the
Mexican Faction.

Plans were completed Tuesday at
Niagara Falls by the South American
mediators for the signing within
day or two Of all protocols in the
peace plan which relate to interna-
tional differences between the United
States and Mexico, except the plank
giving the composition and personnel
of the new provisional government.
The mediators intend to have the en-
tire peace plan ready so that at in
formal conferences the Huerta and
Constitutional delegates may select
a provisional president and cabinet
officers. Before these conferences
are held the work of the mediators
and the American delegates virtually
will be finished. Representatives Of
the two Mexican factions then will
assume the responsibility Of making
or breaking the peace program.
Reports from New Orleans quot.
ing Carranza's private secretary as
saying the commission en- route to.
Washington would not participate in
informal negotiations with the Huer-
ia delegates did not disturb the me
diation colony. The expressions cred
tied to men who recently left Cen.
Carranza's headquarters were con-
strued to be part of the desire not,
to disclose the purposes of their mis-
sion prior to their arrival.
! Whether the delegates now COM
ing represent the personal interests
Of Carranza; is not known, but the
mediators have good reason to be-
Iieve Gen. Villa is in sympathy with
efforts of the United States to settle
the Mexican embroglio through dip
lomatic channels and that the dele
gates en- route will have Villas ap-
rroVal.
The signing of protocals setting
the International dispute on condi-
ton that a provisional government
be established which the United
States can recognize is expected to
tserve as an incentive to the two Mex
ican factions to agree on personnel.
These protocols will be published,
perhaps, Thursday Of this week. One
will set forth that within a fixed
period after the United States recog-
nizes the new government, American
forces shall be withdrawn from Vera
Cruz and hostilities shall be declared
suspended between the United States
and Mexico.
Another will include declaration
by the United States that it desires
that no indemnity for expenditures
resulting from the seizure of Vera
Cruz, but asks only the establish
ment of a provisional government
that can guarantee International as
well as national obligations.
The South American ENJOYS dis
cussed it briefly with the American
delegates and conferred with the
Huerta delegates, who were asked
formally if they would meet Consti-
tutionalist representatives. The
Huerta delegates replied they were
willing to enter any conference with
their countrymen which had for it's
object the prevention Of bloodshed
and the destruction of property and
sought to establish national gov
ernment on firm basis.
The plan the mediators have work
ed out is to confne the formal De-
diation conferences to a considera-
tion of international questions, treat
ing with the Huerta and American
delegates on these points. On inter-
nal questions the Huerta and Consti-
tutionalist delegates would be expect
ed to confer alone. They would dis
cuss names for the provisional presi-
dency while the mediators and Amer
lean delegates would await the out
come of their efforts before signing
a final protocol.
It is virtually certain that no
armtistice would be declared by the
| Constitutionalists until an agree
ment of definite character is reach
ed in the informal conferences as to
the established of the provisional
government. On arriving at such an
understanding it would be expected
that a general suspension of hostili-
ties would be proclaimed and the
Constitutionalist delegates then
might be formally admitted to the
mediation proceedings for the sign
ing of the final protocol, recording
the solution of the differences be-