Show CA CARRANZA ANlA AGENTS ARE NUT NOT GER FU FOR MEDIATION It Is Hoped However That a Representative Will Give Information tion w WASHINGTON M May I 2 23 23 Whether her Can Carranza constitutionalist it o al t chi chief l' l would determine to end send a representative tive to the mediation conference e at Niagara Falls rails was a a. d development inthe In Inthe n the Mexican situation eagerly awaited here hero today The constitutionalist agents agents' in Washington on still were looking for word from their chief hief on their proposal to have ha an em emissary B at Niagara This was walt strongly intimated and it was expected ex cx- pe ted that aft er another consultation by telegraph h with Carranza late today some positive light would bo be shed shod on the e situation Carranza Agent Due Jose JOe Vasconcelos one ono of Carranza's Carranza S 'S confidential representatives wb who o has been bean mentioned in connection with the prop proposed sed mission on was s to arrive here today Plans for sending a constitutionalist constitutionalist at representative to Niagara Falls had not been officially outlined to him before hi his hi arrival arri It was reiterated that if Carranza finally determined to send a a. man to the conference his hill functions tune probably would be he restricted to narrating to the th-c mediators th the 0 constitutionalists constitutionalists' aims He Ho would not go o a as a delegate or to seek participation in the mediation pre pre- There probably would wourl be DC a specific understanding that the constitutionalists were ere not committed to any proposal al of the South American envoys en en- voya voys for Cor settlement of the Mexican problem Some of Carranza's advisers advisors it was believed ed were not entirely agreed over the proposition of ot representation at Niagara Falls The point int was taken b bv by a few of them that the tho constitutionalists constitution might better push their constitution I military militar campaign southward and hold aloof from the nc negotiations so fiO as to avoid an any possible chance or 01 diplomatic com corn It Should Give Information t Others shared the view of the administration administration administration admin admin- that Carranza should have hare rep at lu least t t to give tion of the northern factions faction's policies to the mediation While awaiting an outcome of that phase phase- of tho the situation and arid the tho develop ment meat of ot tho the three envoys envoys' attitude toward lard an any Carranza representative P President Y and his advisers advisors today to day maintained their attention on tho mediation negotiations News NoW's that John E. E Silliman American Amen Ameri can vice consul who bo had been held by f federals had arr arrived cd safely in Mexico City relieved a menacing circumstance e. e Tho The report of his safety came imme diatel on the heels of ot refugees refugees' reports reports re reo re- re ports that he ho had fallen fallon before a federal fed fed- eral oral firing ring squad quad at Saltillo Silliman was expected to proceed to Vera Yera Cruz from whore it was vas assumed ho he would send detailed reports of tho conditions under which he be was detained Unofficial information indicated he bad had been arrested while acting in his official capacity it imprisoned tried and condemned as a n spy and tho the archives confiscated Interest In Rebel M Moves ves While diplomatic developments o overshadowed overshadowed over over- er shadowed other features in tho Mexican equation today yet keen interest was maintained d in the constitutionalists constitutionalists' swiftly moving moving- military campaign Outlying Outlying Out Out- lying columns of ot Carranza's army continued con their general mOT movement toward the th-e gateways to Huertas Huerta's capital and Villas Villa's Si troops took possession ion of Saltillo b lo 10 which was WM abandoned by federals without resistance Earlier in the week it was was believed crl that one of at the deciding battles of tho ho thor r revolution would bo be fought out t there cre Carranza s temporary capitol soon oon is IS to tobe tobo tobo bo be established in jU Saltillo W where cre he served as governor of Coahuila state under Madero That the army anny bad had completed ed plans plane or r meeting any sudden turn in the sit sit- nation was indicated by tho the departure of Secretary See Garrison for A Atlantic City where he be e will have a brief rest |