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Show MEXICAN LEADERS FAVOR COMMISSI INFORMAL NEGOTIATIONS FOR SETTLEMENT OF BORDER DISPUTE DIS-PUTE PROGRESSING. Commission From Each Government to Formulate a Plan of Action for the Permanent Relief of Border Conditions. Washington. Informal negotiations for settlement of border disputes between be-tween the United States and the da facto government of Mexico are "progressing "pro-gressing favorably," Acting Secretary Polk said on Wednesday after his second sec-ond conference with Eliseo Arredondo. Mexican ambassador designate. Although Mr. Polk would not add to this statement, it is understood that it now is assured the steps being taken tak-en foreshadow appointment of commissioners commis-sioners by each government to formulate formu-late a plan of action for the permanent perma-nent relief of border conditions. Mr. Arredondo has not disclosed what his instructions are, but from other sources it has been learned that the commission plan was favored by General Carranza and his advisers and would not be opposed at the state department. A formal announcement is expected soon. Whether the question submitted to the commission will follow the definition defini-tion of the matters in dispute laid down in General Carranza's latest note is not known, although Secretary Lansing's Lan-sing's reply apparently accepted that definition. The Mexican note said the reasonable anxiety of the United States on the one hand over the security se-curity of its borders and the feeling of the de facto government on the other that the continued presence of American troops in .Mexico menaced friendly relations, constituted the problem to which a solution must be found. There are no present indications that a commission would go into questions ques-tions dependent upon these main issues, is-sues, but not directly involved in a settlement. It is believed probable, however, that the whole subject of internal in-ternal conditions in Mexico, including tue financial stress there, would be reviewed re-viewed to some extent with the possible possi-ble result of some more far-reaching plan being proposed than one embracing embrac-ing border conditions only. |