Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-09-12 | Page 12 | Proposal of Carranza may be Accepted

facto government ran make arrangements, arrange-ments, call pen era election?, and that he will step aside for the president chosen at that lime. A.s to revolution claim of foreign governments and M exico '3 debts. Carranza Car-ranza is said to be ready to reiterate assurances he made last .Tune. Would Give Assurances. Villa 's agency in Washington declared de-clared in a statement tonight that it would address th Pan-Arnerican conferees con-ferees regarding assertions niade in Car-ranza Car-ranza 's reply to their peaee appeal. The statement disputes Carranza's claim of territorial control, denies the charge that Villa was 'bribed to turn against Carranza, and declares: General Carranza's charges that General Villa is lactionary sounds strange, in view of the fact that be has just invited ex-Federals to join his cause, and has made overtures in many other ways to the old Huerta element in his desperation to obtain aid for conducting his war against the efforts to establish estab-lish a government truly for the people peo-ple of Mexico. PROPOSAL OF CARRANZA If BE ACCEPTED Pan-American Diplomats Disposed to Give First Chief a Hearing on International In-ternational Problems. VISIBLE CHANGE IN THE SITUATION Course of the Conferees to Be Determined at a Meeting Meet-ing to Be Held During Present Week. -- -- WASHINGTON. Sept. 11. General Carranza's counter proposal to tJtie Pan-American Pan-American diplomats for a conference with him over international phases of the Mexican problem vail be approved, according to opinion expressed here tonight to-night by officials in touch with the administration. ad-ministration. Although Carranza refused re-fused to yield to the appeal of Secretary Secre-tary Lansing and representatives of six Latin-American republics that he join his adversaries in a peace conference, it was pointed out here that military conditions in Mexico had undergone : marked changes in the last few weeks, and in some quarters it was contended that Carranza's claim for recognition i was entitled to investigation. Since the Pan-American appeal was I I issued Carranza's armies have pressed i pacification of territory in centra and I i northern Mexico, while some report to the state department have declared that i General Villa's forces are disintegrat-J disintegrat-J t ing. Carranza's Position Good. Prom authoritative sources advices j have reached Washington- that it would ! be difficult to conduct a convention to i select a provisional government in Mex-II Mex-II ico without the participation of Car-k1 Car-k1 I rana and his military commanders, who j 1 ciaim now to control nearly all Mexi- I J can territory. r j Secretary lansing would not indicate i today how the Pan-American conferees ( wonld 3ct on Carranza's proposal. It was understood that would be deter-' deter-' I I mined at a meeting next week. From 1 Beveral sources, however, it has been r? learned that some of the Latin-Ameri-M I can diplomats are inclined to give Car-, Car-, . j ranza a hearing, with a view to learn-j learn-j inp what he might propose, if reeog- ? t nized on a de facto basis with regard H j to the adjustment of war indemnities 9 and the protection of foreign interests, jj j Carranza. it is said, is ready to give i assurances that he will, as soon as a de