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Show AMERICANS MEET: CARRANZA MEN Delegates Try to Get Names Acceptable to the Constitutionalists Constitu-tionalists for President. . . SEN. TOWNE EXPLAINS Expected Huerta Denial of Firms' Work Food Enter Vera Cruz Free. N'iagara Falls. Ont., June If, --The i American commissioners motored over to Buffalo this afternoon to confer con-fer with representatives of General Carranza. Nothing was known of their departure from Niagara FallB until about thp time they were due to return. They expect to secure the names of I prominent Mexicans that the constl-i constl-i tutionaliste will bp willing to have selected se-lected as provisional president. F3melio Rabasa. chairman of the Mexican delegation, received a tele gram from General Huerta today de nying he is being represented in YVa-hineton by former United States Senator Charles A Towne. General Huerta ald Mr Towne Is not acting as hi? agent in any capacity The transfer of Luis Terrazas. wealthy Mexican land owner, from the palace at Chihuahua, where he has hecn under confinement for several months, to th penitentiary, was re j sponsib'e. It was learned today, for ; AmbaFFTdor Ha Qama's request last nlghl to Secretary Bryan through the American delegates to secure his re-Ira- The United States was a3ked to usp Its Influence In his behalf Towne lisuea Statement. Washington, D C . June 18. For-I For-I mer United States Senator Charles E. Towne announced today Hie conclu j slon of his mission in Washington In connection with the Mexican media-j media-j tion situation. He issued a State-i State-i ment declaring his firm had been "re-' "re-' taineri to pivp emphasis In proper quarters of the sincere determination on the part of the Mexican delegates I at Niagara that In the Institution of a provisional government fl1? presi d( at should not he bestowed on a pronounced adherent of Cafransa but I that a man should be chosen whose 1 neutral attitude would be a guaranty hal the restoration or order would be based on a united Mexican nation, ra I ther than on the will of a victorious fat tion M firm, having performed its duty, has no further connection with the matter." When shown a dispatch stating Huerta Hu-erta had not authorized him as his representative. Mr. Towne said: "I expected that." Foodstuffs Admitted Free. The state department has decided to admit all foodstuffs free to Vera I Cru until June L'.V The exemption j will apply to foodstuffs sent from for i eign ports as well as from the United Uni-ted States. |