The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-03
Mexicans In Conference Make It Clear, While They Will Listen to Advice From the Other Side, They Will Not Accept Any Com promise.
Representatives of 50 Min ing Companies Give Amer icap Commissioners Their Views Regarding Reopen ing Industries and the Confiscatory Decrees.

| Atlantic City, N. J.. Oct. 3.-On the resumption of the Mexican conference here yesterday the Mexican Commis- sioners, acting on instructions from CarrAnza, again urged the withdrawal of alk American troops from Mexican soil and presented the following plan for the protection of the American border,
 CaIranza's Latest Proposition | That the American troops guard the American border on the American side wherever the railroads on Ameri- can soil run parallel or close to the 1 border tJ'his would roughly call for i dividing the American forces into three parts, one to guard the border on the American side from NOgales to Douglas, one to guard it from Her. manas to Port Hancock, and the third stretched from the neighborhood of Longfel1ow to Eagle Pass.)
 1 3-That the Mexican troops guard the border on the Mexican side where there are no railroads in close proX- iimity to the border.
 | 4-That a system of communication be maintained between the American and Mexican forces by means of of- ficers "de liason'' so that information may readily be transmitted and steps taken to head off bapdits, sc.
 5-That a reciprocal agreement be entered into giving the forces of either country the right to cross the border into the territory of the other on a hot trail within a given zone of 1OO miles. Mexican Argument
 The Mexican Commissioners took great pains to point out that they are as anxious as their American collea- gues can possibly be to protect the American border and to make impos- sible the renewal of such incidents as the Columbus raid. They asserted their belief that the plan pror osed by them would achieve the purpose o1 the conference.
 They pointed to the 1:ct that under Presidents Hayes and Garfield a some whatSzsimilar arrangement was 1r force and that in Gen. Grants Ad- ministration a reciprocal understand ing existed for either side crossing the border.
 They cited one instance where 2 party of American Indians escaping from their reservation crossed the border and carried of horses, cattle
 
 rurales halted at the border and sen a message to the agent in charge o1 the reservation without crossing the border as they had a right to do.
 This, they asserted, would certainly be the case again under the agree. ment they urged but their instruc. tions from Carranza were to demand reciprocal rights as far as crossing the border is concerned. This has been Carranza's position from the be. ginning.
 Won't Brook DictatiOn.
 It was also made clear yesterday morning that although the Mexican Commissioners would be glad to re- ceive any advice that the American Commissioners could give them as to the solution of their internal problems they would not permit themselves to be dictated to in the matter and would resent any attempt to include , such matters in any protocol that might be signed.
 They do not go so far as to- take the position that withdrawal of the American troops must be uncondi tiona1, but they hold the. American troops have no business on Mexican , Soil and they present their plan fol f the protection of the border to fore , stall any objection to the withdrawing of the American troops, which is th' matter they have been instructed tt I settle first.
 Dr. Cabrera, the head of the Mexi 9 can delegation, denied most emphati l cally yesterday morning the story tha lthere is any friction between himsel