The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-06-24
UL1|MAIUN TO MED|lTORS.
NO HOPE o. SETTLEMENT EX.
CECT ON AMERICAN CON-
DITIONS.
United states Insists on Constitutional
list for President and Unless Mex
leans Yield the Mediation Confer.
cncc Will End i'm Failure.

Niagara Falls, June 19.-Justice
I-amars memorandum to Emilio Ra-
basa, head of the Mexican mediation
delegation, announcing that the
United SttaeS must insist on the ac-
rcptancc Of its plan for the pacifca-
lion Of Mexico. is an ultimatum. I'm
less the Hucrta delegates Weld media
licn will end tomorrow or Monday
This is the firm determination of the
United States as conveyed to the
mcdiators today. Ambassador Da
CANA of Prazil and Minister Suarez
OF Chile asked the American delegates
if their position had changed in view
of the CarranZa-Villa split and the
reply was that i. had not.
1t was an inf +. rmal talk, but served
to advise the nediators that the
published statcIients Of the Ameri-
can and Hu ia delegates, with oppo-
site views on the type of man to be
selected for provisional president, de-
fined clearly the unalterable attitude
Of the American government
Just what would be the American
policy if mediation fails or what dis
position it would make of the Amer
iCan troops at Vera Cruz is not known
even to the American delegates. The
iIUerta commissioners say they do not
know what course of action Gen.
Huerta may pursue.
The mediators held no formal ses-
sion today because Minister Naon Of
Argentina stopped in Washington in
stead of retul ming directly from uni
versities where he has been receiving
honorary degrees. Minister Naon is
expected back carly tomorrow and
will confer first with his colleagues.
who are anxious 10 know whether his
conferences with officials of the
Washington government today devel-'
the problems confronting them.
Ii it has not the various plans will
be formally presented.
Rejection by the Americans Of the
meC atOrs' plan as we'll as that offer
cd by the delegates will be recorded
as matter of form, together with
disapproval by the Mexicans Of the
American plan. Automatically that
would adjourn tho conference, ac-
cordng to the Jules of procedure
adopted when they first convened.
scme names to suggest for provisional
president
\ report from Mexico City that
Gen. Huerta had decided to appoint
Pedro Lascurain is minister of for
cisn affairs may change the entire as
poet of things if it develops that Mr..
Lascurain is to be made provisional
president, irrespective of the media
ton proceedings. Mir. Rabasa, head of
thought it was improbable this would
occur.
Mr.. l.ascurain was minister of for
ci@n affairs under MaderO and at his
overthrow bccamH provisional presi-
cent, appointed Huerta to his cabinet
and then relinquishCd the presidency
to him. Many col1stitutiOnalists have
explained that they opposed the ele-
vation Of Mr. Lascuran because of
his unresisting subserviency to Huer-
ta'S assumption of office.
The American delegates hitherto
are understood to have objected to
Lascurain on the ground that his re-
of the foreign ministry
would not mean restoration of the
constitutional order, because he VOL
unfairly had abandoned his right to
hold that Office. Many here believe,
however, the American government.
would accept Lascurain pending an
The following paragraph from the
OF thc American dele
gates sums up the stand Justice La
mar and Frederick w. Lehman have
Dcon instructed To hold:
The United States is party to
he mediation i'm the hope that it
might lead to peace and that the
place would lead to prosperity. The
,lan the American representatives
rupoSc and on which we must in
list Will be formulated solely with
hat end in Nicw.''
Another paragraph which is the
american governments practical re-
cction of the mcdiators' plan reads:
"NmCriCan objections to the plan
ma, Il l,,.