The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-06-11
DISAGREEMENT THREATENS MEDIATION:
REBELS TO CUT OFF RETREAT OF HUERTA
MEDIATORS AND L. :. DELE
GATES DISAGREE ON TWO
VITAL POINTS.
Argument Is Over New President
For Mexico and May Wreck
the Conference.

NIAGARA FALLS. Ont. June 10
ntterences OF opinion 30 serious that
hey imperil the continuance of IN.
conferences here have developed BE-.
seen the American delegates and
the mediation plenipotentiaries ON
two vital points there IL nat dis
agreement
First. the mediators. representing
presumably the viewpoints Of the
MeNican delegates. are insisting that
IN" provisional president OF Mexico
thall De a neutral who shall not have
been an active partisan In the consti-
tutlonalist cause.
The American delegates have en-
phatically stated that unless the
choice falls upon a man OF distinct
conHututiOnalist eympathies. not nee
cssarily military chief or leader.
but one who would command their
confidence. there can be no hope Of
constitutionalist acceptance of any
peace program adopted here.
Secondly. the United States govern
! ment Is determined that the method
OF transition from the present regime
10 the new government shall not be
through the appointment. by General
Huerta, as minister OF foreign affairs
OF the man agreed upon for provision
al president To permit him to eX-
ercise that constitutional function OF
naming his successor according to
alent TO recognition OF the Huerta
government
Opposed BY medIators.
This view Is forcefully opposed by
The mediators who argue that mas
much as the world will know that the
mediation conference had selected the
next provisional president. the form
OF succession Is not important
Which is the greater ssrifice. the
mediators asked, for General Huerta
20 name a minister OF foreign AFFAIRS
whose political principles are not in
accord with his own. and then 10 have
the latter almost Immediately sue
coed him as provisional president Of
Mexico. or for the United States 70
yield on the technicality as % the
manner in which the transfer should
be made
This Is the argument which they
nave presented to the American gov
ernment.
The American delegates are on
posed to what the mediators term the
constitutional method Of succession.
not only because OF their governments
consistent policy Of non-racOsnition of
Huerta, but because the Constitution
alists have informed Washington that
they viii never accept a Huerta ap-
pointee as provisional president. and
mat peace cannot be restored without
their acquiescenCp.
private Conference.
The mediators are wholly occupied
today with discussion OF these
points among themselves. They did
not confer with either the American
or Mexican delegates. The latter let
" be known that they considered the
method OF succession technicality.
but would not definitely say whether
they would yield their position They
are anxious, however. that the pro.
Nislonal president shall be a neutral
and. II possible. man who has not
been identified with any political fac.
lion in Mexico. They would NOT aC.
cept a Consitutionalist partisan. they
say. especilly an active worker in
that movement
The United States has taken firm
position that there can be little pros.
pect OF a peaceful settlement unless
the mediation recognizes the military
conquest OF the COnstitutionaIists and
takes into consideration the probabili.
~ that the Constitutionalists soon will
torctbly enter MeNico City unless mo
diation ends theNcivil STRIFE and estab
fishes new government on a peaceful
oasis