New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-25
Rebel ENJOYS Are Conf
IDENTIFY Expected to Con-
tinue to Canada.
ZACATECAS LAST
STAND OF HUERTA
Denial of Alleged Calderon
Statement that U. S. Made
Demands on Carranza.

washington. June 24.-Despite many
.a;ct;ng reports concerning the mis-
s;on 70 Washington Of representat'Nes
OF the Mexican Constitutonailsts OF
the way here, il was asserted to-nsn'
in official quarters that there was - 800 e,eli
expectation that agents OF G ..ntion
Csrranza would accept the lnVltallVh
~ .hn American commissioners at the
Niagara Falls mediation conference 70
narticipate in informal negotiations
relative TO the pacihcation oil thelr
In the light Of the announcement
Orleans Yesterday by Alfred Breeeda'
one of the three Carranza agents on
his way 20 Washington, that the Con-
stitutionalists never would confer WIN
General Huerta except on the oattIe,
field, a statement made here to-nlsne
bv one of the representatives Oh Vhe
-, stitutionalists was regarded as
significant.
Breceda's Statement Denied
at can be said with emphasis, tng
Ccnstituionalist representative ave D. o.
stbat the statement made by Mr. DIS
.sds is not supported by Fernando
I-les;as Calderon. Mr.. Caldefoh Is
eon,;ng 70 the United States to AID IN
tha negotiations that have been peno-
ne toward the settlement OF INC
troubles of his country. , .,,+
In tbis connection il was pointed OUT
.h.t Mr. Breceda left New Orleans lot
washington early to-day, wnlle M;
Cslderon and Mr.. Espinosa' the MIRO
OF the agents sent here by General
Carranza, remained IN New OrleAhs'
manning 70 leave there tomorrow
The battle of Zacatecas was SAID 10
be an important factor in the present
outlook. Should Zacatecas fall, IT was
pointed out, Huerta's dwindling hopes
would be ended. Zacatecas is regarded
as the dictator's land stand. II villa
and his allied forces roCt the Federals
there. the general opinion is that
Huerta's army will be demoralized and
that the Constitutionalst will then De
in a position TO demand the terms OF
peace upon which will be based the
rrovisional government TO succeed
huerta, and the subsequent arrange
ments for general election.
The report yesterday that Juan r.
Urauidi. of the Constituencies
agency here, who met Mr. Calderon IN
New Orleans, would proceed to Sal
tillo 10 see General Carranza, was re-
viyed to-day. II was added that Ur-
ouidi had important messages for the
first chief bearing on the mediation
conference.
officials of the Washington govern
ment denied the report from New Or-
leans attributed to Mr.. Calderon pur-
porting 10 give demands made by the
United States upon General Carranza
through which Constitutionalist repre-
sentatives should be admitted to the
mediation conference at Niagara FAILS.
It WAS emphatically stated that the
United States never made any condi-
- bo1I
stipulations attributed to Mr.. Calderon
included demands that might properly
have come from the Huerta delegates
to the mediation conference.
Not L. s. Demands.
As such, it further was suggested,
they might have been transmitted by
the mediators to General Carranza dur
ing the earlier stages Of the confer
ence II was pointed out that the
United States, in view of the positive
position il has taken throughout tire
mediation proceedings would not have
made demands upon the Constitution
alists which il was impossible for them
TO accept.
As soon as the report was received
here and had been officially denied rep
resentatives of the ConstitutionalistS,
who also denied any knowledge of such
at New Orleans asking for clariticl-
ton of the dispatches.
New Orleans, June 2l.!"What pur-
ported 20 be details of the demands
made BY the United States upon Cen
eral Venustiano Carranza, through
which Carranza's representatives would
be admitted to the mediation confer
ence at Niagara Falls, were given out
10. hrr Ia Iola Col
deron, hief of the Liberal party in
Mexico. He is on his way TO Washing
ton in onnection with the Mexican
problem.
Aside from the armistice feature,
with Carranza refused TO consider,
Calderon said that il was the demands
concerning disposal of religious ques-
e tons and the time when the elections
should take place, which greatly intr-
std tn Constituencies.
Returned TO the Church.
According to the statement Of the
Liberal party leader to-day, the United
States demanded that all property Of
the Catholic Church confisated by the
Constitutionalists should be returned
TO the Churh, that buildings destroyed
should be paid for, that priests should
be protected and that priests driven
from the ountTy should be allowed to
return. To this Carranza replied, ac-
cording to Calderon's statement, that
the Constitutionalist laws of reform
provided that all hurch property should
90 TO the state when needed, and also
that the priests must go.
Calderon also stated that Carranza
refused TO accede TO the demand for
elections as soon as the revolution Is
ended. His reply to that, according TO
the statement, was that elections
could not take place until banditry
has ceased; therefore he would not
agree to holding an election until sew
eral leaders now classed as bandits
had been crushed.
Another demand, according to the
statement, was that Huerta should be
protected, 10 which Carranza is re-
ported 70 have replied that, according
to the Aztec law, Huerta must die, and
the Constitutinalist chief refused TO
acquiesce in the demand.
Carranza is also stated to have re-
fused to obligate the Constitutionalists
TO pay debts incurred by the Huerta
government.