The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-21

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 utes of the last full session at whicf said solution was accepted shall form the basis of the protocol of documents to be signed.
 ''5 Closing addresses by the medators 1 and representatives should they so de- sire"
 Hold Night Conference
 The medators and the American rep | resentatives held a conference tonight | which was almost wholly occupied ir | the presentation by the mediators of their views of the problem and their sugges- l tions for its solution. These, it is nn- derstood, were placed before the Amer iean delegates informally as step to- l ward formal presentation later in the course of the conference The delegates were not asked tonight to submit the views of the Washington government l The three South Americans intend SC ] far as possible, to sound out both sides before formally submitting their plans Just how soon essentials will be reached was not predicted with any definiteness i tonight, but the general feeling was that 1 tomorrow some of the vital issues in the Mexican problem would be ready for sub mission
 1 While no move toward securing par ticipation by the constitutionalists has as yet been made by the mediators such a I step would not occasion surprise as all plans are being framed by the mediators With view to extending to General Car | ranza an invitation to join in settlement should the prospect of acceptance seem 1 favorable.
 | The conferences were held in an oak panelled room. vanished anew for the | occasion and furnished only with a long table and 12 chairs, three for the mediators, three for the American delegates. three for the Mexicans and the others for attending secretaries The room is on the fourth floor of the Clifton hotel, overlooking the falls White shades, dimming the strong sunlight. shut off the view during the session, but the low, incessant roar that penetrated the walls was a con tinuous reminder of the giant cata- ract.
 Adjacent to the conference room are small rooms for consultation purposes | fitted with desks and writing para phernalia. As they appeared for the first conference. carpenters and deco rators hastily put last touches to the council chamber where the destinies of the southern republic were to be | discussed Earlier in the day all the delegates had met the mediators in a sitting room one of the floors be- low. The formalities were few The Americans had come to call on the .'oulil <AlitiitdH tINOyS dnu Wnlle they were chatting the Mexican delegates were ushered in A cordial, informal conversation ensued, the Mexican question being temporarily forgotten in the personal interest of the con vening delegates. They got more in- timately acquainted than they had at the Spanish ambassa dor's banquet last Saturday in Washington Minister Suarez of Chile was delayed, but at his telegraphed request the first con- ference was not postponed.
 Small Crowd Collects
 As the delegates separated at the, noon hour. a small crowd haR col ected about the hotel and dozens of photographers way1aid thAf principals. who posed good natureS1y. The Am erican delegates nsotored back and forth across thes' International bridge during the day from the American side -
 The scene about the hotel where the Conference was held was compara- tbsely quiet and devoid of excitement | Throughout the corridors where at taches hustled about caring for the welfare of the delegates and arrang- ing telegraph and telephone communi- cation there was an air of suppressed anticipation.
 The Knowledge that the conference dealt with problems of such world wide attention made the principals to | the conference objects of conspicuous interest and their movements were followed by the lobby crowds with in i tense curiosity. Here and there a group of the Mexicans stood speaking in their native tongue. The Amer ican delegates. too. chatted with their friends. lnformality was apparent everywhere. though at the afternoon laot tha .1a1o were formally attired.
 Exchange Calls | The questions on which the success of the mediation revolves were hardly approached today. The exchange of calls in the morning was followed in the afternoon by similar procedure. | pr. Naon the minister from Argentina | left cards at the headquarters of the l Mexican delegates here and returned | the calls of the Americans by mo- toring to the American side in an au- | tomobile decorated with two little American flags and leaving cards at their hotel. The American delegates called on Martin Burrell, the Canadian minister of agriculture and he, too, went to the American side to pay his respects
 The Mexican delegates, after paying their respects to the various parties |
 time in their rooms receiving tele-
 grams and writing communications to
 Mexico City. Senor Algera de Ter reros, former charge daffaires ir
 Washington, and other members of the Mexican embassy staff were in consul
 tation most of the time with the Mex.
 ican delegates. They discussed the sit
 uation in detail as MT. Algeria. is pecul
 iarly we'll informed on the American
 viewpoint as well as Latin American
 affairs and is on intimate terms per
 sonally with the mediating diplom atists.
 the Mexican party the sons and daugh
 ters of the delegates went sightsee
 ing. Little Romulo Naon, II years old
 son of the minister from Argentina
 took an eagerA interest in the activ-
 ities of the newspaper men and tho
 photographers, a small army of which
 thronged the carpeted corridors of the
 hotel. He was soon on intimate terms
 with all, speaking French and Span.
 ish as well as English
 Prepared for Long Stay
 Most of the principals to the negotia
 tions have prepared for a long stay ant after a day of preliminary organization and formality, settled down to enjo, the surroundings
 The first formal conference of tht peace negotiations was held this aft ernoon at 3 o'clock despite the absence of MT. Suarez. Two Canadian DO lcemen guarded the door of the con- ference room where Ambassador ds Gama and Minister Naon presided al the head of the long table Each oi
 the three parties to the meeting had | r,, .S..1