The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-09
To Meet Him in Conference at
White House.
LIND'S ARRIVAL is DELAYED
His Ship Moves Slowly to Give
Mexico Time
To Change Her Mind Regard
ing His Reception.


Wilson will meet the entire foreign
relations committee at the White
House tonight for a conference on the
Mexican situation. The entire mem
bership of ten Democrats and seven
Republicans was asked to be present
The foreign relations committee at
e special meeting today received the
presidents invitation to the conference
81 far as was known, the purpose OF
the meeting was not conveyed
some Republican senators, however
have assailed the presidents course III
not taking the committee into tuIl con-
fidenCe, as they point out freslueli'
Mckinley did in the Cuban Crisis. some
senators have recently declared IN tAe
senate chamber that news dispatches
were their only source OF information
on the Mexican situation anu nav
pointed to that as a justification 1or
various resolutions proposing lnNesCSa-
ton bv a senate committee
President Wilson has felt that
sueeches in the senate and introduction
of resolutions were not helping the SIT
uation any and very recently express
ed the view that certain RepupucdLls
were making the situation one dlnlculI
70 handle peacefully. The conference
tonight which will be the president
first meeting with the most important
of senate committees, Is expected 10 de-
xelOD full information of the SITUATION
and may possibly disclose to the sen
ators exact terms OF the proposals Ior
peace President Wilson is transmitting
10 the Huerta government through En-
vCy Lind.
Ifnd's Course Outlined.
There are, however, some physical
obstacles which Will naturally delay
Mr.. Lind's arrival in Mexico City to-
day until Monday
New Hampshire will De obliged to an
chor Eve or six miles on Vera Cruz,
and navy officials doubt if any effort
viii be made TO land the envoy today
The trip from Vera Cruz UP to Mexico
CITY ordinarily takes u hours
Before Mr.. Lind arrives. Charge
O'Shaughnessy is expected to explain
to the Mexican foreign office that Mr..
Lind comes only as adviser to the en-
bassy. not to take a part in Mexican
politics and on thoroughly peaceful
mission
The administration maintains its
confidence that when Huerta under /
stands the facts there Will be no objec- 1
ton 70 Governor Lind's mission and /
that he will be allowed TO discharge his /
duties as adviser TO the American en- !
ba Ssy without mOlestatiOn. /
That understanding is based upon the +
belief that Mr.. Lind will scrupuloUsly ,
observe the etiquette of diplomacy and .
Will not undertake to raise an issue
as to his status by addressing himself .
directly to General Huerta or the Mex
ican foreign office. availing himself OF
the services Of Charge O'Shaughnessy /
as an intermediary and mouthpiece for
anything that he may care to say.
Doesn't Recognize Huerta.
New York, Aug 9-VenustianO Car
rama, governor OF the state OF Goa
hula and COmmander-in-chief of the
Mexican constitutionalists has sent
the following answer in reply to a
message from the Times here asking
fighting if John Lind, President VIII
sons personal emisSary, should request
the Husrta government to cease hos
tllties until the October elections were
held:
answering your message, say to
you that do not recognize the Huerta
as a legally constituted
government. for which reason the
obligations incurred with my comrades
in arms in the just defense of our con-
rights cause Us to continue
the campaign that has been begun
until il IS finished
Lind's Arrival Delayed
Washington. Aug. 9-John Lind
President Wilson's personal envoy to
Mexico will arrive off Vera Cruz on the
oattleship New Hampshire before night
He probably VIII not be in Mexico City ,
before Monday and the diplomatic :
ISIS bSNN cen the L ulleu states ana !
Mexico Is not expected TO eliminate I
before that time.
The next development in the situa ton !
s expected when Mr.. Lind, through {
Charge O'Shaughnessy. presents to !
Provisional President Huerta President ,
proposals TO bring about /
peace. These will q j. Iblished sirnul-
in Washington and Mexico
and at the same time Will be trans
nitted as a matter of inforrna ton to /
he powers of the world.
Whether Mr.. Lind's presence in Mex I
co will be undesirable" as has been
stated by the Mexican minister of for
eign affairs, will then actually become i
known Administration officials here
are reluctant to believe that will be I
Huerta's attitude after he officially
Knows the purposes OF Lind's visit |
They take the view that the attitude 5
IF hostility has been aroused by un- !
,fficial misinterpretation of the pur- :
poses OF the mission. !
Though there is no official confirma-
ion of the statement, it is said the
lassage of the New Hampshire has :
been a slow one. purposeIy TO give the {
Mexican government opportunity to :
digest the situation. The big ship :
,ould have made the passage in 26 I
tours and reached Vera Cruz yester-
lay afternoon. I
Plan to Bring on War 7
Washington. Aug. 9.-Senator Will }
Jams (Miss-) declared today he be- :
eved an organized effort was being
lade to bring on war with Mexico. i
In my deliberate opinion there is
ow an organized and syndicated eff
Ort to bring about war between the