Wilson Peace Hope Grows.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 13, 1913:
Lind's Visit to Mexican Minister Encourages Administration.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.— Advices to the State Department from Mexico City to-day served to give great encouragement to the Administration. A telegraphic dispatch from Nelson O'Shaughnessy, the American Chargé d'Affaires there, brought assurances of a change for the better in the feeling that had been aroused toward this Government, while news that John Lind, President Wilson's special representative, had been received by Federico Gamboa, the new Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs, indicated a willingness on the part of Provisional President Huerta to forget his fiery threat of a few days ago that Mr. Lind would be treated as an undesirable person unless he brought credentials as Ambassador and was prepared to recognize the Mexican Government.
    The fact that Señor Gamboa received Mr. Lind was as gratifying as it was surprising. Everything that had come from the Mexican Government prior to Mr. land's arrival indicated that he would not be recognized officially and would be treated as a rank outsider and meddler. Señor Gamboa assumed office only yesterday, and his quick agreement to discuss the situation with Mr. Lind shows that President Huerta is in a conciliatory mood and is willing to find out what the United States Government has to propose as a means of bringing peace to Mexico.
    Reports to Washington concerning Minister Gamboa have given this Government a good opinion of him, and his first step in his new office is taken to mean that the suggestion for a settlement which Mr. Lind is to set forth will receive respectful attention.

Lind Is to Move Slowly.
    In his message to the Secretary of State, which supplied ground for encouragement, Mr. O'Shaughnessy said it had been decided to proceed cautiously and gradually in the efforts to adjust the Mexican situation in accordance with the wishes of this Government. It is understood that Mr. O'Shaughnessy spoke for Mr. Lind as well as for himself, and that the decision not to urge any action on the Mexican Government at once, represented the best judgment of ex-Gov. Lind and Mr. O'Shaughnessy when they had considered diplomatic and political conditions.
    Time May Calm Huerta. When Mr. Lind feels that the time is opportune to make suggestions to the Mexican Government, he may find that President Huerta and his advisers are in a more favorable humor to receive them. At least, that appears to be the theory on which Mr. Lind is proceeding, judged by Mr. O'Shaughnessy's dispatch.
    Reports from Mexico City that a message from the State Department which Mr. Lind bears has been translated into Spanish and is ready for presentation to President Huerta are not confirmed by Secretary Bryan. The impression given by the State Department is that no such message is to be communicated to President Huerta or the Mexican Government at this time.
    Another thing cited to-day as indicating a favorable outlook for what President Wilson sought to accomplish was the statement of the British Foreign Office that President Huerta had been recognized by Great Britain "pending an election" on the advice of the British Minister to Mexico "as being likely to assist in the restoration of order."
    In the Senate to-day, the only incident relating to Mexico was the introduction by Senator William Alden Smith of Michigan of a bill intended to provide for the expulsion of all revolutionary agents from the United States.
    Mr. Smith's bill, which is almost identical with a Senate amendment to the immigration bill offered last year by Senator Root of New York, authorizes the Department of Justice to proceed against aliens in the United States conspiring against a Government in North or South America with which the United States is at peace. The bill reads:

Bill to Deport Conspirators.
    Any alien who shall take advantage of his temporary or permanent residence in the United States to conspire with others for the violent overthrow of a foreign Government in North or South America with which the United States is at peace shall be arrested, and upon conviction in any court of competent jurisdiction be deported. The Department of Justice, through any officer legally qualified to act for said bureau, shall have the lawful right to enforce the provisions hereof. Mr. Smith's measure was referred without debate to the Committee on Foreign Relations, where it will remain until the President's wishes are understood more definitely. It is suggested that as the United States so far has refused to recognize Provisional President Huerta's Administration as a Government, the bill, even if passed, might not have any bearing on existing conditions.