The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-25
Can DO NO MORE
The Work Of tho A. B. C. Medi-
ators Is Completed.
All Else IL Loft to the Mexi-
cans Themselves.
nOTHIN6 IS LEFT TO Be DONE
Except to Agree on . Successor
to Huerta.

Mediators Then VIII Give Sane
ton to Man Chosen.
Niagara Falls. June 25.-Peace be-
! tween the United States and Mexico
| rests today ON a single condition-the
establishment of a new provisional
government along lines which will jus
tify the world in according its recog-
milton. Mexican factions have given
guaranty that they will exert every
effort to earn this reward. Five weeks
of the mediation conducted by Argen-
tina, Brazil and Chile. resulted In the
completion last night OF protocols
agreeing that the diplomatic relations
between the United States and Mexico
shall be restored and that all other in
ternational difficulties considered set
tied when a new provisional govern
ment succeeds the Huerta administra-
| ton.
Upon the representatives of the two
warning factions-the constitutionalists
| and Huerta government-devolves the
| task now of selecting q provisional
president and his cabinet to serve in
the interim, while the country is be-
ing pacified and made ready for a gen.
eral presidential election.
Mediation does not adjourn. The
diplomat and the American delegates
will lend their counsel and advice
wherever possible to the delegates Of
the two factions as they meet in in
formal conferences. The Mexicana
probably hold their conferences
here.
| Definite assurance that the meeting
will be held. has been given the medi-
ators by constitutionalist representa-
| tfves in Washington and the Huerta
delegates.
May RecOnvene Late.
When the two parties to Mexico's
civil strife shall have adjusted the
internal problem OF their course, the
mediation board will formally recon
vene and protocolize the result. A
date will be fixed for formal recog
milton Of the new government and q
period set within which the United
States will withdraw its troops and
ships from Vera Cruz. The media
ton conference has discreetly left Il
the Mexican factions themselves the
work of settling the internal problem
of their country. Tl.e situation was
brought to its present status only aft.
er mediation many times had seemed
| ready to collapse. The exclusion III
| constitutionalists from q voice in pro-
ceedings had alienated their interest
when later the American government
announced that 1t would be useless to
make any agreement on the internal
problem of Mexico-its provisional
president-unless the constitutional
| lists approved.
! President Wilson laid the situa-
ton before Minister Naon in Wash
! ington last Friday. The president In
effect said that the constitutionalists
must have share in the political
destinies of the nation. They had
| demonstrated their capabilities In
their military successes and there
could be 20 pacif1catiOn without them
The Protocols.
| Accordingly there was devised q
| plan which was put into effect in just
| five days. The Huerta delegates and
| the American commissioners agreed
upon all planks in the peace program,
but those relating to the personnel
sional government and the time when
American forces will be withdrawn
from Vera Cruz. Last night the sig
natures of the two sets Of delegates
and the mediating plenipotentiaries
were affixed to the protocols. In ef-
| feet they provide:
First, that q provisional government
| shall be set up On a certain date,
which shall be recognized by the ma
| tionals of Mexico.
Second. the provisional government
shall be constituted by agreement OF
| delegates representing the parties to
4 Mexico's internal struggle.
| Third, diplomatic relations between
the United States and Mexico shall be
resumed and recognition accorded the
new provisional government.
| Fourth. no war indemnity shall be
| paid to the United States or other in
| ternational satisfaction claimed. Abb
! solute amnesty to foreigners for any
| political offenses shall be proclaimed.
! Fifth-Argentina, Brazil and Chile
agree to recognize the new provision
al government.
| Peace Outlook Better Than Ever.
| Washington, June 25.-After a con-
/ ference with Secretary Bryan, President
Wilson authorized the statement today
that tie outlook in Mexican affairs
was more promising than it had ever
been before. It was intimated by Of
ficials close to the president, that his
| feeling was based on the signing OF
protocols at Niagara Falls and on the
| expectation that the internal affairs OF
Mexico would be satisfactorily adjusted
between representatives Of the consti-
| tutionalists and the Huerta delegates
| Administration officials made no ef-
| fort to conceal their pleasure over the
reports Of the taking Of Zacatecas BY
General Villa. 1t was admitted, that In
| view of the administration, the victory
at Zacatecas increases the Importance
of Villa in the coEstitutiOnalist cause.
| Confidence that ccnstitutionalist rep
resentatives will work with the Huerta
DELEGATES was expressed by officials
close to the president. A report was
current today that Herbert J. Brown OF
WASHINGTON had been sent TO Mexico by
President Wilson to confer with Cen
eral Carranza, but there was no offfciat