The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-14
Stated Mediators Have Talk ed Over Character of Pro-
 visi0nal Government
REBELS ATTITUDE
 APPEARS DILATORY
Carranza to Await Reply to Note Be- fore Sending Representatives. Representative Working for
 Huerta at Washington

Washington, June Is.--Further def mite results in the Mexican mediation conference at Niagara Falls are looked for by officials of the Washington government early next week. their con- clusIons being based on communtcn- tons received from the American rep resentatives who were in touch with Secretary Bryan late today.
 | No word of any actual progress at the l joint conference today was received by officials here, but it was stated the med iators and parties to the conference had talked over the character of the proposed provisional government to be instituted in accordance with the protocol signed yes- terday by the representatives of Huert4 and the United States. .. In several sources the attitude of the constitutionalists toward mediation was declared to be dilatory in view of the an- nouncement from General Carranza's headquarters at Satillo that reply to the latest note to the mediators would be awaited before the representatives of the constitutionalist chief would proceed to Niagara Falls to confer informally with
 
 Huerta commissioners. That an answer was expected from the mediators to the communication stating that the consti- nationalist delegates would be sent, also was declared by carranza's agents in Washington. No reply from the medators had been received tonight.
 Expresses Satisfaction President Wilson, just before leaving early in the day for Princeton. was no- tihed of the signing of the first protocol, which specifics that provisional govern ment should be established in Mexico to succeed the Huerta regime, such govern ment to be recognized by the United States. The President expressed satsfac- ton over this actual achievement In the negotiations. Secretary Bryan again re- terated in his insistent declaration late in the day that the peace negotiations were progressing satisfactorily. l The fact that the Huerta government has an active representative fin Watching ton working for the best interests of the dictator in the progress of mediation be- came known today, when 1t developed that Charles A. Towne. a New York attorney and former United States senator from Minnesota, had been retained by the Mex leo City regime. Mir. Towne has been In Washington several days, and has two conferences with President Wilson and today was In communication with Secre- tary Bryan. He plans to see President Wilson again tomorrow. The New fork attorney also was In touch during the day with the Mexican delegates at Niagara Falls.
 Expresses Approval MT Towne late today issued a state ment expressing approval of the signing | of the first protocol, but declaring that the matter of choosing the personnel of the provisional government, particularly the man for the presidency, was the gravesr problem before the mediators, and that ] the situation at the present time was tense and delicate" He would not dis- cuss the status of the proceedings from the viewpoint of the Huerta government 1 further than to say that ''it is mistake | to infer that the rest of the deliberations are bound to proceed smoothly"