Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-06-23
Constitutionalists Sending
Representatives to Meet
Delegates Of U. S.
HiJERTA REPORTED
TO HAVE AGREED
Is Willing to Confer With
Rebels in the Naming of
New President.

Niagara Falls, Ont, June a.
The United States government
has invited representatives Of
General Carranza and General
Huerta to meet at an informal
conference here with the hope of
bringing about the pacifica alton OF
Mexico.
The Huerta delegates today In
formed the American delegates
through tho mediators that they
were willing to deal with the
constitutionaIists In this way.
Niagara Falls, Ont, June 22.-Actual
negotiations between representatives
of the two fighting factions in Mexico
In an effort to agree on an individual
for the provisional president, is the
latest plan which the mediators have
evolved for the solution of the Mexican
problem.
Just how the two elements will be
drawn together remained secret to-
day and it became known that strong
pressure had been brought to bear on
General Carranza, through the Ameri-
can government and that the mediators
had persuaded the Huerta government
to come into the plan.
Informal parleys between the repre-
sentetives of the two factions with the
counsel and advice of the American
delegates is the object Of the new plan.
This move was last resort-every ef-
fort to get the constitutiOnalists to
agree to an armistice having failed.
The appeal. which Is said to have
influenced both factions, is that the
Mexicans themselves must save their
country from further spoilitton and
bloodshed by each making certain sac
rff1ces but neither side will be asked
to abandon the principles for which
they have been contending. 1t will be
several days before the plans will ma
terialize and constitutionalists can ar
rive.
Talk General Peace Plan.
In the meantime the mediators and
Huerta and American delegates will
continue their discussion Of other
points in the general peace plan. Sep
arate conversations with the Huerta
and American delegates were set for
today.
The determination seems to be to
leave the question Of a provisional
president to the Mexican factions to
decide.
An advantage of the new plan 1t is
said is that the conference will be
continued while the situation in north
ern Mexico is developing. Fernando
Iglesias Calderon, leader of the liberal
party in Mexico is understood to be the
head of the delegation appointed by
Carranza to attend the informal confer
ences here.
The Huerta delegates are under
stood to have consulted their govern
ment and to have obtained permission
to deal with the constitutionalists.
Glad To Have Rebels In.
Washington, D. c., June 22.-Indica-
tions here today were that the coming
of the three new representatives of the
constitutionalist movement would open
the way for informal negotiations be-
tween those forces and the American
mediators at Niagara Falls. That the
mediators themselves will welcome
anything the American delegates can
do with the constitutionalists was as
sured here in official quarters.
The three new delegates enroute
here said to have the approval OF Gen
eral Carranza and General Villa are
Fernando Igesias Calderon who has
been in conference with Carranza at
Saltillo; Alfredo Brece, aide to Car
rama and Leopold Hurtado Espenosa,
Z member of congress during the Ma
dero administration. 1t Is believed
here that Calderon will succeed Raph-
ael Zubaran as representative OF the
constitutionalists here. The three are
expected Wednesday.
Another message from General Car
rama to the mediators has been for
warded from Washington to Niagara
Falls. In that communication the con-
stitutionalist first chief is reported to-
have discussed probable informal ne
gotiations as to the provisional gov
ernment through the American COM
missiOners,