The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-20
Will Be Glad to Consider
Any Proposal From
Mexican Factions.
NO MAN UNDER BAN
FOR PRESIDENCY
Recognition Extended to Any
One, Without Some Popular
Expression, Could Not Lead
to Permanent Settlement.
Commission to Investi-
gate May Be Named.

Washington. March 1e.-The United
States government will welcome re-
opening OF negotiations with the
| Hucrta government or the Constitu-
tIonalists, and will be glad to consider
any proposal that will tend to draw
the various factions together into II
plan for the restoration OF peace in
| Mexico
| This is the attitude President Will
| son revealed to-day, after reports
| reached here saying Senior Portillo y
| Rojas, Minister for Foreign Affairs IN
| the Huerta Cabinet had gone to meet
John Lind, Mr.. Wilson'S personal rep
| representative, 10 seek a resumption OF
| The peace parieys Senor Rojas has
been mentioned as the man who would
succeed IIucrta il he retired. and the
object OF the visit to Mr.. Lind, it has
been reported was to ncpuaint the
! Presidents envoy with his personality.
| Incidentally, the President. in talking
| with callers to-day, while remarking
| that he had no official report OF any
new parleys, spoke in complimentary
terms OF the Mexican Minister of For
eiEn Affairs as Il man of high char
/ acter.
No Men Under Bnu.
What the President emphasizes in
his informal discussions on the MeNi
can situation is that he, President
of the United Sta;cS, has never sought
to approve di9approve OF indivi-
duals who may aspire to the presidency
of Mexico, and that he has no list OF
men whom he holds under Il so-callod
| ban because OF alleged completely in
| the assassination OF Madero.
His refusal to recognize Huerta, it
may be stated on the highest authority,
| was not based on any personal an
tagonism to ffuerta, but on the ground
! that the Constitut!onalists would never
! be reconclled to the man who had
ovcrthrown Madero and Suarez. ana
! that governments set up by arbitrary
! force, and not rejecting the popular
! will, should not be dealt with by the
! United States.
Likewise. in the consideration of in
dividuals who might seek for recogni-
I ton by the United States. the prin-
ciple President Wilson has been work
/ Ing on is that recognition extended to
any one set up in the presidency
| without some popular expression or
without Endorsement of all factions
could not lead to peace.
! In considering peace proposals from
! the iuerta government. the United
States, IT is known now, will do all thar
l il can TO forward Il peaceful settle
ment. but the conviction is as strong
with the President to-day as it was
when he sent his instructions to John
Lind last summer that peace in Mex
ico. III the last analysts. is dependent
upon terms that VIII he acceptable
alike To the Constitutionalists and tho
iiuerta administration. He recognizes
that the value OF All proposals depends
upon how far such plans seek To draw
thc Mexican factions together m com
mon agreement upon q Provisional
President. who can convolko elections
or rehabilitato The government mn
chincry in way that would be in
dorsed by the Mexican popuiace gem
orally.
Commission Suggested.
ono OF the suggestions recently mado
TO Iresident Wilson contcnplatcs tho
sending or commission of Americans
or prominence to investigate the con-
ditions In Mexico. Unofficial reports
nave had II that both Carranza and
iiucrta would receive sucn com
mission.
President Wilson is carefully consio
ering the suggestion. said to have been
made originally by oscar s. Straus
former ambassador to Turkey ana
prominent in the cause OF world peace
the President. ii is Known, will he
SIad 10 send such commission. IL it
could assist the Mexican factions i'm
arriving at an agreement, but II is
believed he feels that actual pe,c.
proposals must necessarily originate
with the Mexican factions, and that un
less the commission were invited To go
less mediation OF the same sort hav-
inS previously yNbecn rejected by both
Mexican factions.