The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-20
BY LAWRENCE TODD,
Special Staff Correspondent of the In.
ternational News Service.

Law hCNSG tOOOp
Special Staff Correspondent of the In
ternational News Service.
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont, May 20
With the stage all set and the actors
at hand. letter perfect in their parts,
! the opening of the drama of the first
purely American mediation between
governments of two American repub-
lies, waited for the hour of three to
act
! Ambassador Da Cana. of Brazil.
chief of the A. B. c. envoys, announced
early today that the conference for
i settlement of the Mexican problem
would me organized at that time.
| Minister Naon, of Argentina, who
has been here for several days, agreed
with Senior Da Cana that the outlook
was encouraging. They said they
hoped for an early agreement and the
conference by the governments in
! volved.
Americans Rest.
The arrival of Senior Saurez. the
Chilean minister, was delayed Mean
while the American delegates. Justice
Joseph r. Lamar and Frederick y.
Lehman, rested quietly at their hotel
! on the American side of Niagara river.
/ The Mexican commissioners, Senior
Rabasa, Senior Rodriguez and Senior
Elguero, who reached the city early
| today, were reticent. They conferred
| with their countrymen, including for
mer Charge d Affaires Algara, who
arose arely to welcome them. and with
Consul Pablo Temio of Toronto, but
declared they had nothing to say to
the PRESS until mediation confer
ences had actually begun. The first
! tr hn al 10+t Z ha
South American mediators.
Some indication of the probable
length of the conference was had from
the fact that the Argentinan minister
negotiated for months lease of a
motor car. In Mexican Official quar-
ters this news was unwelcome. The
American delegates smiled. The in
terests of the United States are con-
sidered furthered by every possible
delay.
Watch Stage Settings.
Through all the whispered confer
enees about the headquarters ran one
insistent question: "Will Huerta re-
tire, and what viii! the Mexican dele
gates answer to the new proposal of
the United States that the poems O.,
Mexico be given the land? Will they
reject, then agree to consider the land
pledge of abdication Of General Huer-
great estates?"
Opinion inclined toward the belief
that the Mexicans would refuse to dis
cusS the land question. They are
anxious for haste in the settlement of
their quarrel with the United States
government, but it is understood they
regard the land policy as purely do
mestic matter with which none but a
conQueror may interfere.
The diplomats of the three South
American powers, determined to bring
their plan of a peaceful compact TO
success, are. nevertheless watching
the progress of the Constitutionalist
army in Mexico with resignation. They
hope chiefly to get action here in time
to be of assistance in making future
impossible.
Welcome Mediators.
Welcome to the delegates and the
mediatOrs was given today by the do
minior government through Martin
Burrell minister of agriculture: Sir
Joseph Pope. undersecretary of state,
and Hon J. A. Lougheed, cabinet min
lister, without portfolio.
Canadian officials have shown their
interest in the conference in many
ways. George Ross, chief superintend-
ent of the dominion postoffice depart
ment has come here to see that Spe-
cia! locked bags and messengers are
furnished to convey the mail of the
representatives of Argentina, Brazil
and Chile. the United States and Gen
eral Huerta.
| The customs regulations have been
especially modified for the occasion
Only the international bridge remorse-
lessly collects its ten cents toll of
every person who walks or rides
across. Even Ambassador Da Cana
was compelled to pay.
Commissioner Lehman vas in a
particularly peaceful mood today as
the result of special attention shown
him by the Lehigh Valley railroad
Learning that Mr. Lehman was re-
minded, upon entering the state OF
Pennsylvania, of the toOthsomeness OF
: catfish and waffles," the roads Off
cials wired ahead for catfish and waf
file irons At Tunkhannock they were
taken aboard the train and Mr. Leh
mann suffered a craving left over from
boyhood days.
See New Tribunal.
That the present conference is look
: cd upon by Latin-America generally
as the first steps toward establishing
a Hague tribunal on the Western
= hemisphere for the settlement of fu
ture disputes involving, North. Central
and South America and Mexico, was a
, view taken by diplomats who are or
the ground
Dr. Gonzalo s. Cordova. minister OF
Ecuador to the United States. is here