Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-08-20
HUERTA'S ANSWER
 IS NOT COMPLETE Wilson Has Received Only Two Installments of Text
 On Mediation"
SITUATION IS GRAVE
Envoy Lind Wires That Mediation Has Been Congress Be-
 ing Held Down.

Washington, Aug 19.-Tt was an nounced at the White House tonight after the State Departments news had been received there from Secre- tary Bryan, that the diplomatic ne- gotiations conducted by Envoy Lind and Nelson O'Shaughnessy, charge d'affairs, with the Mexican govern ment were continuing.
 The situation was regarded still as grave by the administration because of an official announcement by Mr. Lind that mediation had been rejected.
 In the opinion of nearly every one there, official and otherwise, the tc. lief is entertained that it was not without the knowledge of Provisional President Huerta that official state ments were made last night in Mexico City that President Huerta demanded recognition in an ultimatum before any further negotiations.
 It is the universal opinion also that the conflicting news of last night was directly in line with previous official utterances by cabinet officers of the Huerta regime which were made to poDulariZe Huerta in the eyes of the people and which he found no difficult ty in repudiating after they had served their purpose.
 There seemed to be no question also in the minds of those who heard Mr. Lind's summary discussed today that Huerta in his reply to the presidents proposals suggested" recognition as politely as he could and that this suggestion was given to the newspa- per men with circumstantial exag- geration by Minister Urrutia in Mexi- co City.
 The reply of Huerta to Mir. Lind is seven thousand words long. Only two installments have arrived up to this time, and mediation and any oth- CT substantial or necessary feature of the discussion does not appear so far in the text. The substance of the text, of course is found in Mir. Lind's summary, which the president had at his conference yesterday with Secre- tary of State Bryan and John Bassett MOOrn "a 0F Department. All the same the admin istration officials tonight seemed to take the view that. they should have the Huerta reply liberally and text ually for the presidents examination and analysis "before the next step should even be entertained"
 In the meantime the administration is keeping it's foot on the soft pedal. This is difficult task as congress has been aroused by the conflicting news and is restless under the re- straint imposed upon it's efforts to ex- tract information from the White House and the State Department.
 The influence of the president was shown clearly here today by Chair man Flood, of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House. MT. Flood very promptly strangled the efforts to discuss the Clark resolution. MT. Flood very accurately told that his op- position was due to the fact that "the conditions are too complicated and the situation too critical" to risk House agitation at this time.
 Discussion in the senate was avert ed after consultation, but Penrose will try to press his resolution tomor- row. All statements however look to solution of the Mexican difficulty as duty which has been undertaken by the White House by diplomacy and if that fails there must be next step."
 Banks Moving Money.
 Mexico City, Aug. 19.-Large ship ments of gold and silver are being sent to Vera Cruz tonight by the Mexi- can City, banks. All the trains are heavily guarded. The banks refused to explain their action.
 An explosion of two cars carrying dynamite to this city wrecked Tacum- ba today. According to the latest re- ports from there, six hundred persons were killed and as many more wound ed. The explosion occurred in the