The Sentinel=record., 1914-06-11
FOREIGN AND AMERICAN REPRE-. SENTATIVEs DISAGREE ON
 TWO MATERIAL POINTS.
NEUTRALITY IS DEMANDED
American Agents Are Demanding That the Man Selected as Provisional President shall be rather Inclined Towards the Constitutionaists

Niagara Falls, Ont, June 1O.-Dil- felences of opinion so serious that they mperil the continuance of the conferences here have developed be- tween the American delegates and tie mediation plenipotentiaries.
 On two vital points there is flat disagreement.
 First the mediators. representing presumably the viewpoint of the Mex ican delegates, are insisting that the provisional president of Mexico shall be d neutral, who shall not have been an active partisan in the constiu- tionalist cause.
 The American delegates have stated emphatically that unless the choice falls on man of distinct con sdtuuonaist sympathies, not neces- saiily military chief or leader, but one who would command their conf- dence, there can be no hope of con stmuonalist acceptance of any peace program adopted here.
 Second, ghe United States govern ment is determined that the method of transition from the present regime to the new government shall not be through the pointment by General Huerta, as minister of foreign affairs of the man agreed on for provisional president. To permit him to exercise the constitutional functions of nam ing his successor according to the American viewpoint will be eQuiva- lent to recognition of the Huerta gov ernment.
 This view is opposed to the media tors who argue that inasmuch as the wcrld will know the mediation con ference had selected the next proyi siCnal president. the form of success sion is unimportant.
 Which is the greater sacrifice the mediators ask, for General Huerta to name a minister of foreign affairs, whose political principles are not in accord with his own, and then to have the latter almost immediately succeed him as provisional president of Mexico, or for the United States to yield on the teChnicality as to the manner in which the transfer shall be made?
 The mediators were occupied today with a discussion of these points among themselves. They did not con fer with either the American or Mexi- can delegates The Mexicans let it be known that they considered the method of succession a technicality but would not definitely say whether they would yield their position,
 They are anxious that the proyi sional president shall be a neutral, and if possible a man who has not been identified with any political fac tion in Mexico They would not ac- cept a coustitutionalist partisan, they say, and especially no active worker in that movement,
 The United States has taken a firm position that there can be little pros pect of q peaceful settlement unless the mediators recognize the military conquests of the constitutionalists and take into consideration the prob alb lity that the constitutionalists soon will enter Mexico City.
 No names have been suggested for the provisional presidency, but in ar guing about the type of man for the post the American delegates have taken into account that the constitu- tionalsts claim there would be little chance of pacifying all the elements in their party and persuading their army to lay down it's arms unless the man chosen commanded the absolute confidence of their cause. The Amer ican delegates are not insisting on General Carranza or General Villa or any military chief.
 Tomorrow the mediators expect to discuss these points in detail with the Mexican delegates. One media tor today said he felt confident no obstacle could arise to disrupt medi- ation and that all differences would be reconciled.
 Even the medators admit that n.ohah,y majority of the people of Mexico favor the reform movement represented by Huerta's opponents, even though the large territory con trolied by Carranza contains a mi nority of the population.
 The medators are of the opinion