Huerta May Yield; Needs War Funds.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 23, 1913:
Has Considered Forcing All Corporations to Pay 5 Per Cent. Tax, It Is Said.
WILSON MOVE A CHECK
Plan to Present Situation to Congress May Bring Mexican Concessions Before Tuesday.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.— The State Department has received encouraging news from John Lind, President Wilson's special representative in Mexico City, and, although its character is not disclosed, officials evidently are inclined to regard it as an indication of a more favorable disposition on the part of Provisional President Huerta toward the proposals for peace submitted by Mr. Lind in behalf of this Government. As nearly as it can be interpreted from the little which officials say, the situation in Mexico, as viewed by the Wilson Administration on the basis of its advices .from Mr. Lind and from other sources, is about as follows:
    President Huerta and his Ministers are beginning to realize that they were misinformed as to the unpopularity in Congress and among the American people of the Administration's peace proposals and President Wilson's failure to recognize the Huerta Government. They will find they have been misinformed in that connection when the President goes to the Capitol next week and reads to the Senate and House his address detailing his efforts to bring about peace in Mexico, because the enthusiasm with which the President will be received and his ideas will be applauded will supply ample evidence that Congress, at least, is standing firmly by the Administration.

Fresh Chance for Huerta.
    The Mexican Government is to be or has been notified that the address will be made on Tuesday, and that the correspondence between Mr. Lind and Federico Gamboa, the Mexican Minister of Foreign Relations, will be made public at the same time. That will be a hint to Gen. Huerta that if he desires to modify the attitude he has assumed toward the American plan of adjusting Mexico's troubles, he will have the opportunity to do so before Tuesday, so that the modification may be made known to Congress and the country by President Wilson in his address, and have a quieting effect on an indignant public sentiment that may arise when the rejection of the President's peace overtures becomes known officially.
    The feeling among officials that this hint that a change of attitude on the Mexican Government's part should be known prior to Tuesday may be effective, is based on confidential information of certain conditions unfavorably affecting the Huerta Administration. Officials declined to give definite details of that information, but it is understood it includes reports regarded as reliable that the Huerta Government is desperately in need of money, and is threatened with revolt on the part of a large part of the Federal army which, up to this time, has shown a surprising loyalty in the face of failure to receive its pay.
    One report which has reached here but at present is unconfirmed, is that Gen. Huerta and his Ministers have determined that, unless the United States Government grants recognition to the Huerta Government in a very short time, a forced loan will be ordered, and under its terms money will be taken from all industrial concerns in Mexico without regard to the nationality of their owners. It is said that each of those companies will be compelled to supply cash to an amount equal to 5 per cent. of its capitalization. Such a course would bring indignant protests and perhaps threats of sterner measures from European Governments whose subjects and citizens have large investments in Mexico, and probably would bring to the Wilson Administration's peace plan the moral support of the nations.

Rumors of Poverty and Revolt.
    It was hinted to-day that the Administration had reason to doubt the reports that the Mexican Government had floated a war loan in Paris. Humors came to hand also that Federal garrisons not a great distance from the City of Mexico had revolted and would join the Constitutionalists, and that Federal garrisons elsewhere were threatening insurrection. Altogether, judging from the way in which officials answered questions about the Mexican situation to-day and to-night, they seem to have a fair degree of confidence that the Huerta Government is in a bad way and cannot afford much longer to adopt a defiant attitude toward the United States.
    The House adjourned to-day until next Tuesday. That caused a change in the plan of the President to read his Mexican message to Congress on Monday. He now intends to address the Senate and House in joint session on Tuesday afternoon. His message has not been finished, and it was made known In the White House to-night that he intended to defer its completion until just before he appeared in the House of Representatives to deliver it to the assembled Congress.
    In explanation of this, it was said the President would include in his address a summary of the negotiations between Mr. Lind and the Mexican Government subsequent to the delivery of the American peace proposals and Mexico's rejection of them, and he desired to inform Congress of everything that might occur in connection with Mr. Lind's mission up to the very last moment prior to the President's departure from the White House for the Capitol on Tuesday.
    It is inferred, however, from this statement that the President is hopeful that in the next few days the attitude of Gen. Huerta and his Ministers will have become so modified that Mr. Wilson will be able to inform Congress that there is a favorable prospect of an agreement between Mexico and the United States along the lines of the plan submitted through Mr. Lind.

Won't Recede from Lind Plan.
    The President, it was understood tonight, contemplated making certain new suggestions in his address to Congress toward a settlement of the Mexican difficulty. At the same time it was explained that there was no purpose in the President's mind of receding from the character of the proposals already submitted by Mr. Lind. The intention appeared to be to suggest a reiteration of the original proposals, but in such form as to make them more acceptable to the Mexican administration. But officials here declined to go into details along that line.
    A patriotic demonstration in support of President Wilson's attitude toward the Huerta Government is being planned by members of the two great political parties in Congress. The occasion will be the appearance of the President in the House of Representatives next Tuesday to read his Mexican address.

Warm Reception for Wilson.
    It is intended that the President shall have an enthusiastic reception when he appears in the House, and that the enthusiasm shall not be permitted to wane in the course of his reading of the message. Congressmen generally, without regard to party, are eager to show the President that his efforts for peace have the support of the National Legislature, and their cordial attitude toward those efforts will be intended as an emphatic answer to the assertions of President Huerta that he was satisfied from advices received by him from Washington that President Wilson's Mexican policy, particularly his refusal to recognize the Huerta Government, was not popular in Congress nor among the people
    It was said to-day by persons who had discussed the Mexican situation with President Wilson in the last twenty-four hours that it was his intention to consult members of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate and probably members of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House before the message should be laid before Congress with the text of the American peace proposals to the Mexican Government and that Government's response.
    When the consultation would be held was not indicated. The impression was obtained, however, that the President intended to call to the White House all the members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, read his message to them, and discuss with them the advisability of placing it before Congress and the country.
    Mr. Lind has had two personal interviews with Minister Gamboa since Monday night, when President Huerta and Mr. Lind were closeted for two hours in the National Palace and discussed President Wilson's programme for the restoration of normal conditions in Mexico.
    Reports of those interviews have been received by telegraph from Mr. Lind. They were addressed to Secretary Bryan and have been laid before President Wilson.

Keeping the Nations Informed.
    Although summaries of the communications concerning Mr. Lind's mission have been telegraphed to American embassies and legations abroad to be laid before foreign Governments, the United States has not gone to the extreme of asking the powers to bring the force of their moral influence to bear on Gen. Huerta with the idea of having him accept the proposals made by Mr. Lind in behalf of President Wilson. There have been rumors that the President would seek foreign aid of that character, but it is apparent that should he do so his course would meet criticism and opposition from Senators and Representatives of both parties.
    That criticism would be based on the ground that an invitation to Europe to join the United States in attempting to restore normal conditions in Mexico through diplomatic means would be a part abandonment of the principle enunciated by President Monroe.
    It is admitted this Government would not be displeased if European Governments should make known voluntarily to President Huerta that they believe he should show an inclination to cooperate with Washington. There seems to be a feeling that some of the great powers will adopt that course.