Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-03
Former Consul to Mexico
as Envoy of President
Wilson.
Is ON PEACE MISSION
Huerta Delegates Address Me-
diatorS Showing Desire to
End Strife in Country.

Washington. D. c., July 3.-American
delegates to the Niagara mediation
conference returned to the capital to-
day and conferred with President Will
son and Secretary Bryan. While the
Niagara conference is in recess await
ing Carranza's canvass of his generals
under the plan of Guadalupe as to send
ing delegates to treat with the Huerta
emissaries the American delegates will
remain in Washington and the South
American mediators will also return
here, keeping in touch with the situa-
ton.
Il feel proud of the way you repre-
sented the United States" said the
president TO the American delegates.
Former Vice Consul John r. Sill
man, at Baltimore, left Washington to-
day for Mexico as the presidents en-
voy to attempt to induce the constitu-
tionalists' leaders to mediate the diff
ferences with Huerta and bring har-
mony between Carranza and Villa.
Drop Word. "RebeI."
Niagara Falls, Ont. July with
the departure last night of Ambassa-
dor da Cana of Brazil. Minister Naon
ton consisting of Justice Lamar,
Frederick w. Lehman and II. Perci-
val Dodge. diplomatic secretary, the
Pan-American mediation conference
convened to find a solution of the Mex
lean problem. formally ended its ses-
sions here. Minister Suarez of Chile
and the Huerta delegates will leave
today.
The Huerta delegates last night
made public the note which they trans
mitted to the mediators early in the
day. Significant of it's conciliatory
spirit is the fact that the note refers
TO the Carranza forces as "constitu-
tionalists." whereas heretofore the
Huerta government has referred to
its opponents as rebels"
"The basis of the agreements which
will ensure external peace" the note
says, "the restoration of international
harmony and, in a word, national re-
birth and national honor. lies in the
organization of a provisional govern |
ment in Mexico. II il is organized |
all that will remain to be done will /
be the execution of these agreements /
which promise these boons. If il is /
not organized the agreements lacking |
their base will be destroyed and Mex
ico's situation will be the same as be-
fore. uncertainty for the future and
evil for the present.
AS your excellencies say, It is the
patriotism of rival Mexicans which
must now work to save Mexico.
Happy Over Peace.
I'VE delegates have put forward
I'll.
ready to exhaust, to the end that the
peace agreements may be carried out
by means of the organization of pro-
visional government effected in ac-
cord with the constitutionalist dele
gates"
The second note from the Huerta
delegates addressed to the mediators
gives the viewpoint of the Huerta
on the settlement of its
difficulties with the United States and
states formally that peace has been
happily concerted between Mexico
and the United States
'In effect, the signature OF the pro-
.ocol corresponding to the session
ield on the oath of last month having
been concluded yesterday" it says,
the negotiations which were the mo-
i've of the conferences have come to
IN end by means of the agreements
,ut on record in the various protocols
signed and by which peace has hap I
,iIy been concerted between Mexico !
md the United States, for even In
he basis OF the agreements is the or
,anization OF provisional govern !
nent in Mexico. such organization is 1
reserved to the parties I
.ontending in the civil war In our