The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-08-15
ENLIGHTENED ON
MEXICAN POLICY
Senate Foreign Affairs Commit
tee and President Confer.
EXPLAINS LIND's MISSION.
Huerta To Be Called On To Comply
With the Promise Made When
re Took Charge OF
Government

~nlnEton.-l WO hours OF confer
ence between President Wilson, Secre-
tary Bryan and the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee brought about no
change in the attitude OF the Admins
tration toward Mexico.
The President took the Senators
into mis- confidence far enough to out
line the following:
That John Lind. his special envoy
to Mexico City, does not bear any solu-
ton OF tie present situation. but is TO
continue this Governments effort to
induce Provisional President Huerta
to redeem his promises for free and
constitutional elections.
That under no circumstances does
the Administration propose to recog-
nize the Huerta Government.
THAI Mr. Lind is in Mexico City to
be the eyes and ears of the Washing
ton Administration on the ground and
TO explain the attitude of this Govern
ment when he has fully familiarized
himself with the situation.
Tha, by Withdrawing Ambassador
Wilson and sending Mr. Lind. the
President planned to have a man on
the ground who was in sympathy with
the Administration here. and was in
no sense a factor in the situation in
MEXICO City.
These policies and suggestions of
the President and Secretary Bryan
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was made clear that the purpose of the
conference was to establish more
frank and intimate relations between
the Senate and the Administration in
the development of the Mexican policy
and in the furtherance of this idea the
President talked freely and answered
many pointed questions.
There was practically no talk of lift
ing the embargo on the Importation of
arms into Mexico which some mem
bers OF the committee believe would
put a speedy end to the difficulties.
The meeting was entirely friendly
The President did most of the talking
and Secretary Bryan and members of
the committee added a word here and
there OF the Y men present only two
Senator Smith, of Arizona, and
Stone are out-and-out believers in a
policy Of ultimate Intervention.
President Wilson was firmly OF the
opinion that Intervention will not be
necessary. and some members of the
committee who went to the White
House disturbed in mind came away
with the belief that perhaps much of
the recent talk in the Senate had been
uHWagranted
Lind In Mexico City
Washington-With the arrival in
Mexico City Of John Lind personal
representative of President Wilson,
Administration officials declared that
no further steps would be taken in
carrying out the policy of the United
States toward Mexico until Mr.. Lind
had made a careful study of the gen.
eral situation there.
While the President has mapped out
a distinct course Of action about which
strict secrecy is being maintained, it
is known that the instructions to be
sent Mr. Lind from time to time will
depend largely on developments in the
Mexican capital in the next few weeks.
Mr. Lind will make all his recon-
mendations to Charge O'Shaughnessy,
so that whatever representations are
transmitted by the latter to the Huerta
Government will differ in no way from
the notes the American Government
has hitherto addressed to the de facto
authorities in the Mexican capital Mr.
Lind's connection with them. it was
stated, would not be apparent.
His mission. it was explained, is TO
substitute unofficially for Ambassador
Henry Lane Wilson, whose personal
views of the Mexican controversy
were so pronounced as to make it en-
barrassing for the Administration here
to communicate them through him.