The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-09
TENSION OVER
MEXICAN NOTE
CONSPICUOUS
President Wilson and Secre-
tary Bryan Discuss Message
From Huerta Government
in Early Conference.
ae
ACTION HINGES ON
RECEPTION OF LIND
Special Envoy Expected 10
Reach Mexico City Sunday
Night or Monday Morn
ing; British View.

WASHINGTON, Aug. s.-Tension
over the Mexican situation was con
spicuous throughout today in official
circles. President Wilson and Secretary
Bryan in an early conference discussed
the message from Manuel CARA Adalpe.
acting minister Of foreign affairs, stat.
ing formally on behalf of President
Huerta that unless John Lind, personal
representative of President Wilson, en-
route to the Mexican capital, bore ere
dentials recognizing the Huerta govern.
ment, his presence in Mexico would be
undesirable.
Later the American embassy at Mex
leo City, through Nelson o 'Shaughnes-
sy, charge d affaires. was instructed to
explain TO the acting minister of for.
eign affairs that the information on
which his statement must have been
based, could not have come from the
state department here, as no official
declaration of Mr.. Lind's purpose IN
visiting Mexico had been made.
Bryan's Statement.
Mr.. Bryan also issued the following
statement;
''The statement of the Mexican for
eign office was based upon misrepre-
sensations for which this government
is not responsible. In sending Governor
Lind as adviser TO the embassy. the
president is entirely within his rights
and this department will not assume
that his going will be regarded as un-
friendly when the character of his mis-
sion is understood -
1t also was announced by Secretary
Bryan that Mr.. Lind would not arrive
at Vera Cruz before Saturday even
ing, Secretary Daniels, Of the navy
department, explained In this connec-
tion that while the battleship New
Hampshire could make the trip from
Galveston to Vera Cruz in thirty-six
hours minimum time, her ordinary time
for the journey would be about fifty
or sixty hours and indicated that the
administration did not regard Mr.
Lind S mission as necessarily requiring
great haste.
Not Making Haste.
Some officials saw an advantage in
proceeding slowly, however. SO as to
afford the Huerta administration an op-
portunity to become more fully ac-
quainted with the purposes of Mr..
Lind IS visit.
Administration officials take the po-
sition that objections to Mr.. Lind's
presence in Mexico are unwarranted, as
the general public is not acquainted
with the proposals which he carries, nor
the method by which he intends TO sub
NIT them. On Mr.. Lind Is arrival these
proposals will be made public in Mexico
City and Washington simultaneously,
and transmitted from here to all the
Washington.
Further emphasis was laid by admin
officials upon the point that
Mr.. Lind as adviser to the American
embassy would occupy no unprece-
dented position; that other embassies
and legations had their counselors and
attaches.
P Proprieties Followed.
The inference that he would inter
fere directly inn Mexican politics. which
It appears had spread throughout Mex
co, was declared without justification.
All his acts, it was said, would be in
accord with the proprieties of the sit
ration and all his dealings with the
Huerta government would he through
he charge 'affaires of the American
embassy at Mexico City, and in all cir
Mr., Lind would act as the
nouthpiece of the Washington admin
stration to anyone who sought to OBJ
ain the views of President Wilson and
secretary Bryan on the situation gen.
rally.
Most of the Republicans, as well as
he Democrats, of the two congression-
] committees on foreign relations have
Indicated that they would support the
fforts of President Wilson to bring
bout peace in Mexico. great many