The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-12
Agree to Transfer of Au- thority By Other Means
 Than Through Huerta
SERIOUS SITUATION
 IS SAFELY PASSED
Spirit of Compromise On Part of. Mexicans Saves Day-First Step :. Toward Selecting President
 Practically Agreed Upon

Niagara Falls, June 11.-An import ant point in plans for the qualification of Mexico was gained by the United States tonight through the conciIIa- tory spirit displayed by the Mexican delegation. What had been n stumbling block for several days was passed In safety.
 In full conference of the mediators and the delegates of both countries it was agreed that the transfer of authority from the present administration to the new provisional government should be ac- complished in some other way than by General Huerta's appointment of a minis ter of foreign affairs to succeed to the provisional presidency. This method pro- vided for in the Mexican constitution, will be abandoned because the United States insisted that to assent to 1t would be tantamont to a recognition of Gen eral Huerta's right to exercise constitu- tional functions
 On this point the mediation conference had been wrestling for three weeks, and for the past three days continuance of the conference has been threatened The mediators themselves almost had lost hope of a peaceful settlement Some what piqued at General Carranza' s delay in answering their last communication they suddenly had made public all cor resrondence with the constitutonalists and declared the incident closed
 As the Americans began their discus sion with the mediators, the latter con- tended again that the method of transfer would not be construed as recognition of htff he A ,.f,. T that the constitutionalists would never accept such method and the United States could not yield consistently with it's own policy.
 Spirit of Compromise
 Finally when matters seemed at a breaking point Luis Elguero, one of the Mexican delegates, entered the conference room and immediately spirit of com promise was noticeable. Observing 1t, the Americans suggested that the other Mexi- cans come into the conference and Emilio Rabasa and Augustin Rodriguez joined the group It was hot formal confer ence, but an impremptu talk In a sur prizingly brief time. the Americans found they had made more headway with the Mexicans direct than they had previously by working through the mediators
 The Mexican delegates said that all though anxious to follow the constitu- tional form, they would not frustrate the pl oceedings on a technicality Accord ingly the first clause of the mediators' plan, respecting the method of transfer was omitted substitute process will be left to future conferences.
 Frederick w. Lehman told correspond ,ents of the progress made and Justice Lamar dictated the following:
 I was authorized by the mediators to say that we have substantially agreed on the first plank as to the method of trans fer of authority to the new provisional government"
 Tonight's conference lasted more than two hours. Names for provisional Presi- dent were not mentioned. but 1t was ex- pected that at tomorrow's conference a beginning will be made in this direction. Another almost irreconcilable difference of opinion exists on the type of man for the provisional presidency, the Mex jeans arguing for neutral while tbe Americans want an out and out constitu- tionalist