New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-07
Objects to but Few Minor
Points. He Wires Gen.
GaVira al JuareZ.
SCOTT AND OBREGON
WILL SIGN 1T TO-DAY
Gossip Busy with McOuatters
and Interpreter Who Was
Dropped,
BY ROBERT DUNN.
Try reies-aph 70 The Trisune !


FL Paso, Tex, May General Ga
virs made public in Juarez tonight
. dispatch from General Carranza that
he sgro with the United States
was satisfactory. except for few
minor particulars. 1t is expected that
the final conference will be held to
morrow. when the protocol viii be
signed.
Initiative for the final meeting is
and has been for some time with the
Mexicans. Its time is naturally mat
ter Of concern to us. but no one this
side Of the river cares where 1t Will
be held, more than any man bothers
about the place where he must don
haLocufs, if ne has to, and sign
paper declaring that he is trespasser'
s, nday is forecast as suiting Mex
can taste for this TO T. II is always
a field day FOR their musicians, who
comprise about one in five Of every
Mexican towns population. Tomorrow
the victorious blare Of bands TO cele-
brate signing Of the agreement would
be sure to be heard here in FL Paso
across the Rio Grande. But one thing
is sure. however, and that is that at
this short ard defnitive meeting still
imp. nding no civilian mine owner
) would be present.
McQuatters's Part Resented.
The disgust and chagrin of high army
. officers here at the presence Of A. J.
McQuatters at the second Obregon con-
: ference remains untempered, and there
/. By hangs a tale which extends back to
lie first meeting in Juarez, and in
cludes the inside friction which has
marked all the negotiations from the
: Beginning.
) The following story must be taken
. for what it seems worth, though l have
it on the best of authority. The fact
that no local newspaper has printed It,
that one sheet admits its truth, but
says that i "dares" not run 1t, TO my
b mind rather indicates its accuracy. Il
must be remembered that American
Mexican mining interests are al-pow-
crful here, and their representatives
are the source Of most Of the news --
{ both real and subtly colored by ores
THAT comes from FL PasO. II is source
(which little profit has been found IN
offending.
= At that first meeting one Juan Brit
.tingham, a rich Mexican scap manu-
facturer Of Gomez Palacio, a person
with "Cientifco" leanings, succeeded in
( having his secretary, one Ames, act as
Interpreter for General Scott. Consul
Z Garcia, who was present, is said sew
+ eral times during the conference to
have accused him Of deliberately mis-
. interpreting the two generals state
sments 10 one another. At one time
. General Funston, who has good
. knowledge Of Spanish, is reported 10
-have interrupted angrily that there was
s"not a word of truth" in what Ames
-was telling Obregon, presumably on be
.lalf Of General Scott. A passage At
arms followed, which is believed to
shave been ono of the reasons why
ereither Garcia nor Funston attended
sthe next conference at the Hotel del
, Eorte.
: After the first meeting, so the story
rruns. Garcia wired Ambassador Are
edondo in Washington that cientifco
|sinterests had succeeded in working
their influence into the conference. At
.sthe same time Brittingham and Ames