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Show CARRANZA WAITS ! FOR IL S, REPLY Wilson in Possession of the Reply to American Government Govern-ment Proposition. MUST RESTORE ORDER Leader Assures Envoy Lift of Embargo Will Promptly Re- lieve Mexican Chaos. -Nogales. bonora Mex. Nov 13 General Carranza. head of the Mexi j can Constitutionalist, yald today he would not accept mediation in any iomi by the United Stales or any j other foreign go ernment. He reiterated reit-erated previous statements that the Constitutionalists desired only the right to import arm ;uid ammunition from the linked States Nogales. Sonbra. Mexico, Nov 13 With President Wilson in possession today of the answer to the proposition presented yesterday bj the American government, through William Bayard Hale, General VehuBtlono Carranxa. tho patriarchal leader of the Const! tutionallst revolt against Huerta, j waited today a reply from Wash ington The proposition presented by Hale Ih understood to have been that the United States would open the border for the Constitutionalists to obtain arms if Carranza could guarantee the establishment of order within a rea sonable lime, and the foundation of real representative government In the southern republlr This would carrv with it the certalntv of the elimination elim-ination of Huerta without the necessity neces-sity of armed intervention bj the Cniied States. Neither Carranza nor Hale would give any Intimation regarding the results re-sults of the conference yesterday but it is known that Carranza. who from the first has 6aid Intervention by the United States would be disastrous mistake, gave every assurance that the lifting of the embargo on arms was all the American Kovernment need do to obtain realization of Pres Ident Wilson's aims to rellee the present rh-.nii.- conditions in Mexico. Conference Satisfactory No one here doubteo" today that yesterrlay'3 conferener- had been satisfactory' sat-isfactory' to both i-ldes. Carranza himself, a big man more than ix feet tall, showed no nlgn of anxiety as to developments at Washington although al-though the members of his cabinet, men of more mercurial temperament, gave evidence of some apltatlon. Constitutionalists generally expressed ex-pressed great pleasure today at the attention bestowed upon them by tho American government In sending Mr. Hale as an unofficial representative representa-tive of the Washington administration. administra-tion. It was deemed an auspicious augury a definite sign of puccess for the Constitutionalists, and aa the put it. a prediction of the redemption re-demption of Mexico Yet the poesi-bllit) poesi-bllit) of intervention by armed forces of the United States, the develop-menta develop-menta of Intervention by armed forces of tho United States, the developments de-velopments at Mexico city last night and the possibility that Huerta might precipitate matters by some desperate desper-ate act worried them. Rebel Chief Their Advisor. To Carranza all turned toJa for adice and counsel He is the eldest as well as the first chief of the Const Con-st ItUtlonalfStS. In Hie ro'lforene" yesterdaj he was matched in height onls b Mr Hale, the American representative, rep-resentative, and his full gray beard and heavy silvered mane gave him a patriarcbial appearance. Although the entire Constitutionalist Constitutional-ist cabinet was present at the meeting, meet-ing, all the talking was done by Hale and Carranza. and that was not much. A silent, grave man the Con stftutionalist chief received the American Amer-ican proposal and studied It more than a quarter of an hour before ho voiced his brief answer General ( ar.'anza again declined to discuss the subject matter of thp conference between William Bayard Hale President Wilson s agent, and himself yesterday, but he reiterated previous statement ,nat once permitted per-mitted to acquire arms without restrictions re-strictions the Constitutionalists could guarantee of foreigners in Mexico and the establishment of stable govern ment in a short time Interrogated with reference to the suggestion that the Constitutionalists: might get into communication with! Mexico City through Mr. Hale at this! point and John Llnd at Vera Cruz, and thus possibly obtain the selection of a provisional president acceptable! to all factions in Mexico the rebel j leader deelared flatly that he would have no intercourse with Huerta Carranza was an ardent supporter! of President Madero As governor of Coahulla. he wo 8 the first to repud! ate Huerta, and his declaration today i was in line with former statements that he would have nothing whatever to do with the Huerta government. oo |