The mission of John Lind, Presi
dent Wilson's special and extraordi
nary envoy to Mexico, has resulted
in failure, and Mr. Lind is on his
way home.
The Huerta government has posi
- tively and none too politely re
fused to accede to our president's
proposals looking to the pacification
of the adjoining republic, and insists
upon handling the situation according
to its own ideas without outside in
tervention of any character or from
any source what so ever.
The main points of the plan pre
sented by MIr. Lind were that an elec
tion should be held in Mexico for a
new administration, at which a free
and untrammeled expression of the
popular will would be obtained, and
that General Huerta should not be
a candidate for president at the elec
tion.
Not only are these propositions
peremptorily rejected by the Huerta
F government, but counter proposals are
r submitted in the following brief, not
to say curt form, as expressed in the
reply of Senor Gamboa, foreign min
ister in the Huerta cabineti to Mr.
- Lind's presentation of President Wil
son's views:
"1. That our ambassador be re
ceived at Washington.
