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Show QSnolEsnr MINNn HOI PRESIDENT'S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE REPRE-SENTATIVE TO MEXICO GIVEN TIME TO RECUPERATE. Says He Does Not Cee Necessity cf Longer Devoting Entire Time to Government and Applies for Leave of Absence. Washington. John Lind, who acted as President Wilson's special representative repre-sentative to Mexico and who since his return to this country has been the special representative of the state department de-partment in dealing with the const! tutionalist agents In Washington, left here Tuesday night for Ills home in Minnesota. Explanatory o his departure Governor Gov-ernor Lind said: "I do not leel that there is any longer any necessity for giving my en-tiro en-tiro time to the government, and 1 asked the president to allow me to leave for my home, in order that 1 may give attention to my personal at fairs. My request was granted. "Of course, 1 will remain subject to the call of the president or the secretary sec-retary of state, and if at any time either of them thinks I will be of any assistance I will return to Washington. Washing-ton. I do not contemplate any such necessity. I think my absence from the capital "will 'be permanent." (Lind's retirement from further participation par-ticipation in the administration's dealing deal-ing with the Mexican situation, in which he has been its chief adviser, is interpreted to mean that mediation is expected to be a long-drawn-out proceeding pro-ceeding -with the likelihood of nc practical result in the end. |
