The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-05
BY w. N. TAFT.
Staff Correspondent Of the interna'
tionaI News Service at the

''N' iSSvsS SSt vi>S a. S'S
White House.
WASHINGTON, May 5.-The Latin.
American mediators' efforts to bring
about peace in Mexico have failed to
| accomplish their chief aim-the hope
OF securing cessation Of hostilities
and the establishing of firm govern
| ment founded on a legal election in
| Mexico.
Whether they will accomplish their
secondary alma settlement of the is
| sues between Huerta andthe United
States, is problematical. Though
Huerta has appointed his ENJOYS to
place his cause before the mediators,
the United States has not done so. 1t
is unlikely that any action will be
taken by the American government be-
fore the arrival here of Nelson
O'Shaughnessy, who represented the
United States at the Mexican capital
after the retirement of Ambassador H.
l.. Wilson. Mr.. O'Shaughnessy ar
rived at New Orleans today from Vera
Cruz.
Mediation today had narrowed down
to the arrest of American marines at
Tampico and the demand that Huerta
salute the United States flag in repair
alton for the insult
carranza Eliminated.
General Carranza and his Constitu-
tionalists were eliminated from all ne
gotiations for the present by the South
American mediators when the ENJOYS
went into session with the determina.
tion also to postpone until later con-
sideration of the general issues be-
tween Huerta and the Washington
government.
This new development in the situa-
tion has ended, diplomats here gener-
ally believe, the chance of solving the
entire Mexican question at this time,
as the mediators bluntly have told
CarranZa they will have nothing to do
with him as long as he declines to en-
ter into an armistice with the Huerta
forces. Suggestions that Carranza
might change his attitude after he
takes Saltillo, brought no comment
from Constitutionalist representatives
and they declined to discuss the elm
ination of their chief from the negotia-
tions
While the mediators revealed no
>diminution of their optimism because
Of the stand of Carranza, the military
aspect of the situation again was
brought to the front with increasing
prominence by General Funston's re-
the American outposts at Vera Cruz.
1t is realized here that an outbreak is
likely to come at any time. Prepara-
tions to send reinforcements to Fun
ston are being made secretly.
CARRANZA BLAMES ENJOYS.
CHIHUAHUA, May 5.-Responsibil-
ity for the failure Of the Constitutions
alists to participate in the mediation
efforts of the Latin-American ENJOYS
at Washington was shifted by Genera:
Carranza today upon the representa-
tives of Argentina, Brazil and Chile.
He notified his representatives at
Washington that he would not partici-
pate, and in explanation of his action,
declared that he had been notified by
the mediators that if he would not
agree to an armistice there was no
need of his appointing any official
agents to confer with the mediators.
In his message the Constitutionalist
chieftain said that he had accepted the
word from the mediators as final, that
he would not consent to an armistice
and would have no representatives in
future negotiations.
HuERTA ADDS DELEGATE.
WASHINGTON, May 5.-General
Huerta today cabled Senor Riano, the
Spanish ambassador, who is acting
here for the dictator, that Mexico will
be represented before the South Amer
lean mediators by four men. The
fourth representative. whose name has
not been mentioned heretofore, is
Rafael Elguero. The other three,
whose names already have been made
public through the mediators, are:
Louis Elguero, Augustin Rodriguez and
Emilio Rabasa.
TORNADO KILLS IL
TBY LEASED WiRE1
ST. LOUIS, May 5.-Twelve per-
sons we're killed and property dam
age estimated at several million dol