The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-06-05

Anything coming from Huerta' s
side will not be taken into considera-
tion.
Niagara Fails Ont. june 2.-Gen
Hucrta is preparing TO resign. He to-
day authorized his representatives :,
the mediation conference to announ-
ce TO the world that neither mis-
taken pride nor personal interest
would prevent his withdrawal when
once Mexico is politically pacifed"
and the Government succeeding his
SO constituted that 1T can count on
the support of public opinion in Ncx-
leo.
The Mexican delegates in thei?
formal statement revealed that they
had been instructed from the first
to inform the mediators tina, Gen.
Huerta's personality would not be
an obstacle toward reaching a Jaace-
full settlement. They also stal.i that
the internal situation in Mexico was
necessarily bound up with the later
national questions" and that tlis
spirit had actuated them in coming
to the mediation conferen 'e.
REPLY TO REBELS NOTE.
Coincident with the announcement
by the Mexican delegates oi their rosi
ton, the mediators to might sent a
note by mail to Rafael IoIbaran Cap
many, representative OF Gen Carran-
"a in Washington, replying to the
communication broI.;nt here Friday
by Juan f. Urquidi.
The mediators in effect asked Cen
Carranza If the Constitutionalists
were willing to discuss internal as
well as internati 1nal questions, and
If they we're ready to de"lare an
armistice with me IIuerta forces so
that the political paci9cat tiur" 10
which the HuerLa delegates referred
in their statement might be speedily
brought about.
These acts-the issuance of the
statement by the Mexicans and the
deadlock in the negotiations, the
existence of which the mediators to-
day formly denied
AMERICANS ASSURED.
II. nevertheless, was authoritative
ly established that not until the
mediators withdrew their original in
tentlon of ignoring the Zeubaran
note o.d the American delegates con
sent to go ahead with n discussion OF
the general peace plan on which sub
stantial progress waa made in today's
conferences.
The statement by the Mexicans.
prepared two days ago, but not is
Isued until Gen. Hucrta had telegraph
ed his complete approval to-day of
the tentative plan for a new Provi-
sional government, also carried the
negotiations Il long step forward.
The text of the statement follows:
TEXT OF STATEMENT.
'In accordance with the instruc-
tions which the Mexican delegation
has had since the beginning of the
peace negotiations, its members de-
clared at the first full conference:
'hdI - 10 say, Ill the presence OF the
mediating plenipotentiaries and OF
the delegates of the United States of
America, that President Huerta'a q
personality is not an obstacle to the
reaching of satisfactory conclusion.
PREPARED TO WITHDRAW.
Gen Huerta is prepared TO with
draw from the Government on condi-
tion that, at the time of his with
drawal Mexico shall be politically
pacified and the government succeed
ing his shall be such as to count on
the acquiescence of the governed and
the support of public opinion. which
constitute the real bases for peace
and stability in any country.
1T has been and is President
tHuertas wish to place on record that
lneither mistaken pride nor personal
interest will prevent his wi.&drawal,
once the above named conditions are
satisfied