Lind Wires That Latest Reply from Huerta Is Encouraging.

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    WASHINGTON, Aug. 27. — While Senators and Representatives assembled in joint session and listened in impressive silence to-day, President Wilson read to them a carefully prepared address in which he acknowledged that the mission intrusted to ex-Gov. John Lind for arranging conditions with the Mexican Government that should bring Mexico's troubles to an end had met failure. It was realized by most of those present that this public acknowledgment foreshadowed a crisis in the relations of the United States and Mexico.
    But the President, although showing his disappointment over the unsuccessful outcome of Mr. Lind's efforts, indicated clearly that he was not without hope that the Huerta Administration would change its attitude and supply the means which the United States had sought to bring about the restoration of normal conditions south of the Rio Grande.
    "The steady pressure of moral force," he said, with emphasis on every word, "will before many days break the barriers of pride and prejudice down, and we shall triumph as Mexico’s friends sooner than we could triumph as her enemies — and how much more handsomely, with how much higher and finer satisfactions of conscience and of honor."
   
Hope in New Mexican Note.
    The President to-night had some reason to believe that the confident feeling thus expressed might be realized sooner than he had expected when he made his address. Secretary Bryan went to the White House shortly after 9 o’clock this evening and left there a communication from Mr. Lind, in which the President's special representative said he had received another note from Foreign Minister Gamboa, which gave ground for optimism. Mr. Lind did not send the full text of the latest Mexican note, but gave a summary of it which indicated that the situation in Mexico was very encouraging — in fact, more encouraging than in several days.
    No information as to what was contained in the note to raise the spirits of Administration officials was obtainable, but it was admitted that prospects for a change in the attitude of the Mexican Government appeared to be good.
    The President in his address laid down the tentative plan which the Government would pursue toward Mexico for the present. That plan embraces the following points:
    First—All Americans will be urged to leave Mexico at once and will be assisted to get away by the United States Government through all the means at its disposal.
    Second—Every one who assumes to exercise authority in any part of Mexico will be informed plainly that the United States Government will watch the fortunes of those Americans who cannot get away and will hold to a definite reckoning those responsible for their sufferings and losses.
    Third—The shipment of arms and other munitions of war from the United States into Mexico will be forbidden and the strictest neutrality between the different factions will be observed by the United States.    

Wilson Orders Sent to Embassy.
    In accordance with the plan outlined by the President, telegraphic instructions were sent to-night to the American Embassy in Mexico City and to all United States Consular officers throughout Mexico in substance as follows:
    "Notify Americans residing in Mexico that they will be assisted in every possible way to leave the country, and those that remain will be watched over. Ships will be provided at the most accessible ports to carry away Americans able to reach those ports. Pecuniary assistance will be given when needed to Americans leaving the country. Notify all officers in authority, civil and military, of the contending factions in Mexico that they will be held strictly responsible for damage done to the persons and property of Americans."
    The identical telegrams contained a statement of the essential features of President Wilson's address to Congress.
    As far as can be ascertained, no instructions were given to the proper authorities with regard to the embargo on the shipment of arms and other munitions of war from the United States into Mexico. Up to this time such shipments have been permitted to go forward into Mexican territory only on special permits from the Secretary of the Treasury, granted at the instance of the Mexican Embassy in Washington.
    All munitions of war shipped under those permits have been for the use of the Federal forces in Mexico. No permits have been granted for the shipment of arms and ammunition to the Constitutionalists or revolutionists.
    Officials declined to say whether foreign Governments would be asked to follow the example of the United States j by placing an embargo on the shipment of munitions from territory under their control into Mexico. Interpretations given to the guarded answers made by the Government officers in response to inquiries on this subject was that it was hoped that foreign Governments would construe the fact that they were supplied with copies of the President’s address as an intimation that it would be pleasing to the United States Government to have them join it in suppressing the exportation of war munitions to Mexico.
    Coincident with the President’s address, the White House made public the text of the communication from the Mexican Government rejecting the proposals of President Wilson for the restoration of peace. That note is dated Aug. 16, is addressed to Mr. Lind, and is signed by Federico Gamboa, the Mexican Minister of Foreign Relations. It shows that the Mexican Government regarded the proposition submitted by Mr. Lind as an insult to Provisional President Huerta and to Mexico. Confirmation is contained in it of the intention, of the Mexican Government to keep Mr. Lind out of Mexico as an undesirable i alien unless he saw fit to properly establish your official character."

Lind's Credentials Satisfactory.
    That unfriendly notice was withdrawn because the Mexican Government regarded a letter presented to Señor Gamboa by Mr. Lind from President Wilson as fully establishing that Mr. Lind was the confidential agent of this Government.
    There is divergence of opinion among Senators and Representatives as to the manner in which Minister Gamboa handled the diplomatic situation. A great many national legislators regard his note as a very able document, and as completely answering the suggestions contained in the proposals of President Wilson submitted through Mr. Lind. Others look on it as not meeting the arguments advanced by the President. A large number, which concedes that the case was very ably handled by the Mexican Minister, contends that the ironical tone in which it was written lessened much of its force.
    Señor Gamboa contradicted as a "gross imputation not supported by any proofs" the suggestion of President Wilson in the Lind instructions that no progress had been made toward establishing a stable Government in Mexico. He contended that of the twenty-seven Mexican States eighteen were under the control of the Huerta Administration, and that the three Territories and the Federal district embracing Mexico City also were controlled by the Federal forces. It was asserted by the Minister of Foreign Relations that the Government had 80, 000 armed men in the field.
    The request that Gen. Huerta should agree not to be a candidate for the Presidency was rejected because of its "strange and unwarranted character," and in addition "because there is a risk that the same might be interpreted as a matter of personal dislike." Señor Gamboa indicated clearly that the Government of Gen. Huerta, as he called it, was not worried because the United States had not granted formal recognition to it. The fact that the United States Government continued to do business with the Huerta Government through the American Embassy in Mexico City was assurance enough, it was intimated, that the recognition existed.

Gamboa Becomes Ironical.
    It was suggested by Señor Gamboa in language apparently intended to be ironical that the establishment of peace would be accomplished much more quickly if the United States Government would observe its international obligations by preventing the shipment of arms and the sending of money to Mexico for the use of the revolutionists. The suggestion that an armistice be agreed on was rejected on the ground that this would recognize the belligerency of the revolutionists.
    Señor Gamboa asserted that Mexico was observing all her credits and that the country was not in nearly as bad condition as President Wilson had endeavored to point out.    
    "Consequently," said the Mexican Foreign Minister, "Mexico can not for one instant take into consideration the four conditions which His Excellency, j Mr. Wilson, has been pleased to propose through your honorable and worthy channel."
    Although apparently couched in terms indicating great friendship for the United States, the Gamboa note is regarded here as intentionally sarcastic and ironical, and the constant repetition of the term, "Mr. Confidential Agent," with reference to Mr. Lind, is pointed to as evidence of this contention.
    Although the President received generous applause when he appeared in the House of Representatives to make his address and the comments of Senators and Representatives made afterward for publication generally were of a kindly and complimentary character, an undercurrent of private criticism was apparent among members of both the great political parties in Congress.
    Several of the leaders, both Democrats and Republicans, assert that the President had made an error in addressing Congress publicly on the Mexican situation at this time. They took the position that Mr. Wilson had extended a virtual invitation to the Senate and House to discuss conditions in Mexico, and that it might be difficult to hold Senators and Representatives to their tentative agreement not to embarrass the Administration by debate on the Mexican situation while the relations between the two countries remained tense.

Danger of Congress Debate.
    From what was said this afternoon, following the reading of the President’s address, it is believed that a discussion of his Mexican message may be precipitated any day, with results which nobody can foresee. The President, it was contended by certain of the critics, would have been wiser not to have made any disclosures at this time about the failure of the Lind mission, or at least to have refrained from appearing personally in the Capitol to voice his opinions concerning the Mexican troubles.
    The danger point would come, it was said, when the House Committee on Foreign Affairs brought in a resolution on which it already had agreed, commending the President’s address and indorsing the policy outlined in it. Prominent House members of both parties pointed out that this resolution would supply the occasion for a debate on the subject of Mexico that might tend to arouse the passions of either the American or the Mexican people or both, and thus take the two nations a step nearer to a hostile clash than the Federal Administration and a large part of Congress, without regard to party lines, were willing to risk.
    There was an air of dramatic tenseness in the House of Representatives when President Wilson appeared there to read his address. It would have been apparent to any stranger unfamiliar with the purposes of the occasion that an important event was about to occur. Under the terms of the concurrent resolution adopted yesterday the members of the Senate marched in a body to the chamber of the House fifteen minutes prior to the time President Wilson was scheduled to appear. Owing to the absence of a third of the House membership there was plenty of room on the benches for the Senators.    
    Vice President Marshall, who led the procession of members of the upper house, took his place on the rostrum at the right of Speaker Clark, who presided. When the Senate arrived, committees to meet the President and escort him to the chamber were announced, by the speaker and the Vice President, and the assembled legislators waited patiently for Mr. Wilson to appear.

Mrs. Wilson an Auditor.
    The galleries were crowded. In the Executive box sat Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and her youngest daughter, Miss Eleanor, who were escorted to the Capitol by Passed Assistant Surgeon Cary Grayson of the navy, the attending Physician at the White House. Secretary Bryan, attired in ministerial black garb, sat near them. In the diplomatic box was an interested group, consisting of Dr. Ritter, the Minister from Switzerland; Señor Calvo, Minister from Costa Rica; Señor Naon, Minister from the Argentine Republic; Señor Nija, Minister from Salvador; Señor Mendez, Minister from Guatemala; Dr. Peymado, Minister from the Dominican Republic; Dr. Morales, Minister from Panama, and Secretary Fevre of the Panama Legation.
    Postmaster General Burleson, Secretary McAdoo, and Secretary Daniels had seats on the floor. Josoph R. Tumulty, Secretary to the President, attired in a suit of white linen, took a seat with them after the President arrived.
    Most of those in the galleries were women — the wives, daughters, and friends of Senators and Representatives. The intense interest in the ceremonies had been shown by the overwhelming number of applications for gallery seats. So great was the pressure that special tickets for admittance to the House wing of the Capitol had been issued, and temporary gates were erected at the foot of stairways leading to the gallery floor and at the elevator entrances.
    President Wilson went to the Capitol in an open motor car with Secretary Tumulty. "Jack" Wheeler, one of the President's Secret Service guards, sat on the box of the automobile with the chauffeur. Two other cars containing Secret Service guards followed. On his arrival at the Capitol, the President went to the room of Speaker Clark, where he met the committees of the Senate and House appointed to escort him to the chamber. The committeemen were Senators Bacon, Williams, and Root, and Representatives Underwood, Mann, and Fitzgerald.    
    Before going to the floor of the House to read his address President Wilson telephoned from the Capitol to the White House to ascertain whether the substance of Minister Gamboa's latest note to Mr. Lind had been received from Mexico. He did that to give President Huerta yet another chance to cause a modification of the message to Congress.

President Arrives in the House.
    The big clock over the main entrance of the House chamber showed one minute past 1 as President Wilson entered the great hall through a door to the left and in the rear of the Speaker’s rostrum. Joseph Sinnott, doorkeeper, cried:    
    "The President of the United States." At a rap from Speaker Clark’s gavel, the whole audience arose.
    In spite of his long frock coat, the President looked cool and comfortable.
    He shook hands cordially with Speaker Clark and Vice President Marshall, and, turning, bowed to the assembled Senators and Representatives.
    As he did so, floor and galleries began to applaud. The round of hand-clapping grew louder, and it soon was made evident that Republicans and Democrats were joining in an effort to show the President that Congress stood behind him in his efforts to settle the embarrassing Mexican problem. The hand-clapping was continued for two minutes, which is a mighty long time for a demonstration on a ceremonial occasion in either House of Congress.
    It was three minutes past one when the President began to read his address. He read very slowly and distinctly from typewritten slips about four inches wide and six inches long, with wide spaces between the lines. There was no effort at dramatic effect on his part, but at times he emphasized certain expressions.
    The Senators and Representatives and those in the galleries listened in silence.
    Not a sound save that of the President's voice broke the stillness in the chamber throughout the reading. Hardly a man among those who had seats on the floor changed his position from the time the President began to read until he had finished. The intentness of the audience was dramatic in itself.
    It took nineteen minutes for the President to read his address. The hands of the big clock indicated twenty-two minutes past one when he finished.
    Bowing to the audience, the President turned and, again shaking hands the Vice-President and the Speaker left the chamber quickly. The audience applauded vigorously until his form disappeared through the door at which he had entered.
    Immediately after the ceremony the senators withdrew and the House, after adopting a resolution referring the President s address to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, adjourned to Friday.
    The Senators on returning to their side of the Capitol resumed discussion of the Tariff Bill.

PRESIDENT WILSON.
    The peace, prosperity and contentment of Mexico mean more, much more, to us than merely an enlarged field for our commence and enterprise.
    We shall yet prove to the Mexican people that we know how to serve them without first thinking how we shall serve ourselves.
    Mexico lies at last where all the world looks on.
    The best gifts can come to her (Mexico) only if she be ready and free to receive them and to enjoy them honorably.
    Its (Mexico's) pacification by the authorities at the capital is evidently impossible by any other means than force.
    War and disorder, devastation and confusion, seem to threaten to become the settled fortune of the distracted country (Mexico. )
    The Government of the United States would deem itself discredited if it had any selfish or ulterior purpose in transactions where the peace, happiness and prosperity of a whole people are involved.
    Clearly, everything that we do must be rooted in patience and done with calm and disinterested deliberation.
    There is nowhere any serious question that we have the moral right in the case.
    We shall triumph as Mexico's friends sooner than we could triumph as her enemies.

FOREIGN MINISTER GAMBOA.
    Mexico cannot for one moment take into consideration the four conditions which his Excellency Mr. Wilson has been pleased to propose.
    His Excellency Mr. Wilson is laboring under a serious delusion when he declares that the present situation of Mexico is incompatible with the compliance of her international obligations, with the development of her own civilization and with the required maintenance of certain political and economical conditions tolerable in Central America.
    If it (the United States) should only watch that no material and monetary assistance is given to rebels who find refuge, conspire, and provide themselves with arms and food on the other side of the border; if it should demand from its minor and local authorities the strictest observance of the neutrality laws, I assure you, Mr. Confidential Agent, that the complete pacification of this republic would be accomplished within a relatively short time.
    The final part of the instructions of President Wilson causes me to propose the following equally decorous arrangement: One, that our Ambassador be received in Washington. Two, that the United States of America send us a new Ambassador without previous conditions.