The Sentinel=record., 1914-06-25
CARRANzA' DELEGATION
STILL SEEMS TO BE A MIXED QUANTITY AND THEIR PUR-
 POSE STILL A MYSTERY.
StIll Hoped That Tey Will Meet the Mexioan0elegate in Effort to Est tabIish Peace in Mexico.

Washington, June 24.-Despito the many conflicting reports concerning the mission to Washington of Mexi- can constitutionalists en route here, it was asserted tonight in official quarters that there is every expecta- ton that General Carranza's agents will accept the invitation of the American commissioners at the Niagara Falls mediation conference to participate in informal negotia- tions.
 In the light of the announcement ie New Orleans by Alfredo Breceda, one of the three Carranza agents, on his way to Washington, that the constitu- tionalists never would confer with General Huerta except on the battle field, statement made here tonight by a constitutionalist representative was regarded as significant.
 Tt can be said with emphasis, D the constitutionalist representative dNtEIHus tudL tue statement huduc yesterday by Mir. Breceda is not sup ported by Fernando lglesias Calde- ron. Mir. Calderon is coming to the United States to aid in negotiations toward the settlement of troubles of 1 his country"
 In this connection it was pointed out that Mir. Breceda left New Or leans for Washington early today, while Mr. Calderon and MT Espinoza, third of the agents sent here by Gen | eral Carranza, remained in New Or, leans planning to leave tomorrow. 1t was learned today that plans for constitutionalist participat in the informal conference with Huerta and | American representatives at Niagara Falls are proceeding as originally outlined
 The battle of zacatecas was said to | be an important factor in the present | outlook, however. should Zacatecas | fall, it was pointed out, Huerta g hopes would be ended. Zacatecas was regarded as the dictator's last stand. If Villa and his allied forces routed
 the federals there the general opin-
 ion was that the ccnstitutionalists
 then would be in a position to de
 mand terms of peace.
 There has been an apparent heal.
 ing of the reported breach between
 constitutionalst chiefs and the Car
 ranza agents now in Washington. lt
 had been reported that on the arrival
 Of Calderon and his associates in
 Washington, Rafael Zubaran, chiel Carranza agent here, and Luis Ca
 brera, his associate, would he with
 drawn or in great measure eliminated
 from the diplomatic question. To
 and his associates are not coming
 here to succeed or depose anybody
 but to cooperate with them and tc
 aid in the solution of the Mexican problem.
 The report yesterday that Juan F. I Urquidi of the constiutionalist agency here, who met Mir. Calderon
 in New Orleans. would proceed to
 Saltillo to see General Carranza, was revived today. In this connection it
 further was stated that Urquidi had important messages for the constitu- tionalist first chief bearing on the mediation conference
 Officials of the Washington govern ment tonight flatly denied the report from New Orleans attributed to MT. Calderon purporting to give demands made by the United States on Cen eral Carranza through which consti- tutiOnalist representatives would be admitted to the mediation conference at Niagara Falls It was emphatic ally stated that the United States never made any conditions and it was presented here that the stipu- lations attributed to Mir. Calderon in- chded demands that might properly have come from the Huerta delegates to the mediation conference. As such it further was suggested they might nave been transmitted by the media tors to General Carranza during the earlier stages of the conference. It was pointed out that the United States, in view of the position it has taken throughout the mediation pro ceedings, would not have made de- mands on the constitutionalists which t was impossible for them to accept.
 As soon as the report was received here and had been officially denied, representatives of the constitutional ists. who also denied any knowledge of any such demands, telegraphed Mr. Calderon at New Orleans asking for clarifieation of the dispatches.