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VOL. XXII. NO. 41.
SECRETARY LANSiNG RESIGNS FROM THE CABINET
arGDRMICK ASSAILS
ADVOCATES OF PEACE
PHOT COMPROMISE
“Bitter-Ender” Opens Sec
ond Fight on League of
Nations Covenant in the
Senate
WASHINGTON. Feb. 16. -Senator
Lodge called up the peace treaty in
the senate at 1:42 p. m. today and i
at once moved that the senate take ■
up his proposed amendment on the 1
reservation relating to withdrawal I
from the League of Nations.
In the opening speech of the de
bate on the treaty. Senator McCor
mick, Illinois, a Republican “bit- j
ter-ender,” assailed those trying foi ;
compromise reservations.
“We are invited solemnly to wit
ness the reduction of an irreducible
minimum.” said Senator McCormick.
"We are summoned to share in the
transubstantiation of a resolution
which cut the heart out of the cove
nant,. into one so superlatively inter
pretative that to Americans it would ■
seem to assure their peace and sc- i
ciirity. while to Europe it will ap- ‘
pear to guarantee their participation 1
in every future war, even against the
American conscience and judgment.
“At the moment when Democrats
at the other end of the avenue and
at the other end of the capital have |
broken the leash which bound them
to the wfiite House, some of them i
seem to be coming to heel.
"Senators proposed to ratify the i
treaty and at the very moment when
the horrid and spectral truth has ap- I
peared in Europe to compe'l the as- I
frighted people to cry out for re- I
vision.* In the very hour when the <
majority leader and the majority in i
the senate are about to be justified |
by events, it is proposed that they I
shall yield the .safeguards to Amer- '
ican peace and honor.”
He quoted the statements of Earl ;
Curzon and others in parliament to i
show the need for revision of the ;
treaty.
Mr. McCormick criticised Senator I
Lodge, his party leader, for being
willing to discuss compromises of the i
Lodge reservations, comparing Mr. i
Lodge's compromise negotiations
with the uncompromising attitude of !
Daniel on questions involv- |
ing the American constitution. Ha!
said:
“The venerable senator from Mas-'
sachusetts sits here in succession to j
a Sre’at son of the old commonwealth :
tvhdse’ name today Is cherished above
all others who have been senators, j
• not for tile compromises which he■
made to secure his own ambition., ■
but for hi§ uncompromising defense!
of the constitution of the United i
States whether it were assailed by I
those who would destroy it through
secession or by another who threat- '
ened it by an act of usurpation.” I
VEMZELOS ARRIVES
FOR TURKISH CONFERENCE
LONDON. Feb. IG.—Premier Ven
izelos, of arrived today to ■
confer with the council of premiers
on settlement of the Turkish prob- '
lem.
Another American
Held by Mexican
Bandits for Ransom
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Wilson '
Welsh Adams, an American, has been
captured by bandits in Zacatecas,
Mexico, anil is being held for 50,-
000 pesos ransom, the state depart- i
inent was advised today.
Adams is superintendent of the
Providencia Mine, operated by the!
minerals fnd metals company of I
Monterey’, an American concern. He
has a wife and child living in Los
Angeles. >
The bandits are reported to have
. looted warehouses of the company at
Abalos.
State department reports also said
that three columns of Mexican fed
eral troops are in pursuit of the
bandits.
The American Embassy at Mex
ico City has been notified of the ab- i
duction.
Kiss Is Indicted
As “Flu” Carrier
THOMASVILLE, Ga.. Feb. 16.
"Stop kissing,” says Dr. John C.
Schrieber, health commissioner for
Thomas county. The kiss, he says,
is an active carrier of the “flu.”
After an uproar from some quar
ters, the doctor modified his con
demnation by saying he refers to the
ordinary k'ss between relatives and
acquaintances. He failed to state .
what he thought of the kiss that
comes from a stronger sentiment.
Five Men Killed by
Alabama Train Smash j
BIRMINGHAM. Ala., Feb. 16. '
The death toll in the head-on colli- ;
sion of two Alabama Great .Southern
freight trains a mile north of Truss
ville Sunday night, today reached
five, when C. A. Bailey, one of the
engineers, died. The other four dead
were trainmen.
CURED HER FITS
Mrs. Paul Gram, .residing at 916 I
Fourth Street. Milwaukee. Wist, re- ■
t ently gave out the following state- I
mentt “I had suffered with Fits !
• Epilepsy) for over 14 years. Doc-1
tors and medicine did me no good. Tt
seemed that I was beyond all hope
of relief, when at last I secured a
preparation that cured me sound
and well. Over 10 years have passsd
' and the attacks have not returned.
1 wish every one who suffers from
this terrible disease would write R.
P. N. Lepso,-13 Island Avenue. Mil
waukee. Wis., and ask for a bottle of
the same kind of medicine which
he gave me He has generously
* promised to send it prepaid, free to
any one who writes him.”—-(Advt.)
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REPUBLICAN -'YJ - <
INCREASED YIELD
i OF COTTON THIS
> YEAR IMPOSSIBLE
, WASHINGTON, Teh. 16.--.4qa in
: crease in cotton this year is out of
! the question, according’ to Dr. Brad
! ford Knapp, who recently resigned
■ as chief of the office of extension
■ work of the south with the depart
! ment of agriculture and became dean
I of the college of agriculture, Uni
versity of Arkansas. ’
• “The experiences of 1919 ought to
: teach southern cotton farmers that
they cannot handle, with their pres-
; ent supply of labor, an increased
j acreage in cotton, the labor is not
I there,” writes Dr. Knapp in one of
: his last works before leaving the
1 department-of agriculture. It is en
i titled "Safe Farming in the Southern
1 States in 1920.”
“By ’safe farming,’ ” says Dr.
Knapp, “is meant a, system which
maintains soil fertility, produces the
' food and feed for the people and
j the livestock in sufficient quanti-
J ties to insure a comfortable surplus.
I and produces cotton as a strictly
I cash crop.”
I “Is ‘safe farming’ as thus defined
needed in she south in 1920?" asks
department of agriculture. “There
are probably those who think not.
Cotton is so high—so much higher
: than it ever was »beore. The supply
is apparently short—the cotton mills
I of the world so greatly in need of.
i cotton. Is it not a time —the once
in a life time —when the farmer can
turn his whole energy to cotton and
‘make a killing?’ Without specifical
ly asking the question. Dr. Knapp
answers it. His word to the farmers
of the south is that the plan follow
ed the past few years is still good.
The only safe plan for farmers, and
bankers is to insist upon a safe
farming program.
I “Cotton." Dr. Knapp says, "is not
i actually very high. It is high .as
i compared with prices in former
years, not as compared with current
prices’of other commodities. Before
the farmer decides that the high
price of cotton will warrant his
planting the entire acreage to that
crop to the neglect of all else, he
says, he had better make a pretty
thorough examination of the retail
prices of the necessities of life at
the place where he must purchase
them during- the year if he fails to
produce them on his own farm.”
Dr. KYujpp’s outline of a safe
planting program for 1920 includes:
Gbod home gardens. Maintained pro
-duction of corn and increased acre
ages where acreage insufficient for
■ home use. production of enough
i hay and forage crops for southern
i livestock for one year. Maintained
* production of meats and increase of
I eggs and milk production.
"There is no thought." says Dr.
I Knapp, “that cotton acreage ouglw
to be reduced, but only that the lure
of price- should not blind out eyes
to necessity of food and feed. The
purpose now is mainly not to reduce
the acreage in food and feed crops,
if we provide for the necessaries oi
life and a well balanced husbandry,
the production of cotton can be sus
tained in a good season and the pros,
1 perity of the South assured.”
Want Mail Delivery
i WAYCROSS, Ga., Feb. 16.—The
people of Blackshear are starting a
movement for obtaining- free mail de
livery for the town. They have ask
ed the for this
convenience.
Don’t Fail to See Page 12
Readers of The Semi-Weekly
Journal will be deeply interested
in the full-page announcement on
page 12 of today's issue. Be sure
to read 'it.
THE UNHAPPY CARPENTER!
WILSON-LANSING
BREAK DISCUSSED
BY LAWRENCE
• +a‘he Atlanta Journal pres'ents herewith
(he first of a series of titres' articles by
David I.awrehee on .the Wilson-Lansing
break, the underlying' causes and the sig
nificance of it.)
EY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Copyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.)
WASHINGTON. Feb. 16.—Presi
dent Wilson has made a mistake. His
friends are bewildered., His oppo
nents naturally rejoice. Few people
know the facts —not more than two
or three. The background of the epi
sode, the thread of the narrative it
self. discloses th-* inner side of the
White House and officialdom as it is
today—the president incapacitated,
irritable, over his long- confinement
and extremely jealous of his presi
dential perogatives, and officials gen
erally are apprehensive lest they,
too, become victims of presidential
wratJi. For, if there was “usurpa
tion" of authority by Secretary
Lansing, there was plenty, of it by
ohter persons equally as 1-lose to
President Wilson.
It is easy for people outside of
Washington to make an offhand
judgment and assume that the pres
idents blunt act i-s a direct conse
quence of the tedium of his illness—
an impatience and petulance not un
known to persons suffering froni
nervous exhaustion. But, instead of
supposing that the president acted
unnaturally, one close at hams can;
not but fail to have the impression
that the president, indeed, acted nat
urally.
Study et the Wilson temperament
oyer a period of years, and observation
of what has been going- on in the
environs of the White House and
Capitol hill since the president got
back from Europe, leads more eas
ily to the .conclusion that Mr Wil
son gave vent to an outburst' of
temper which he has had on previous
occasions, but which his advisers
have wisely concealed or * Checked,
than to the notion that some Yi-ewly
developed’ irascibility brought* about
the curt dismissal of the secretary
of state
Only Three Can Answer
To form a correct judgment, it is
necessary to know just how mu-.h
Piesident Wilson has been permitted
to learn of events and affairs going
on in the government and outside
world during his illness. Three peo
ple can answer the question:
Dr. Cary T. Grayson, his physician;
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, and Private
Secretary Joseph P. Tumulty.
The lips of the first individual
are sealed by professional ethics,
the wife of the president, is not given
to answering inquiries from newspa
pers and has had no eommunicatioii
wild the press sim-o Mr. Wilson he-,
came ill. and the private secretary
to the president has decided to keep
absolutely nium.
But the correspondents who go i.n
the White House everj- day. mak..-
it their business to keep their eyes
and ears open and to remember from
week to week and month to (month.
And anyone of a dozen who watch
the White house affairs carefully
can testify to certain happenings,
which, when pieced together -ami
analyzed in the light' of the Wilson
mood and temperament, cannot but
result in illuminating conclusions.
For instance: Did Secretary lains
ing call the first cabinet: meeting
after President Wilson took sick? He
admits he did. but at least one of
of the calls for a cabinet, meeting-
I think it was the first —-went out
through the medium of the White
(Continued on Page 11, Col. 3.)
\TI.ANTA, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1920.
ANOTHER REASON
i IS ADVANCED FOR
WILSON’S ACTION
WASUINGTdN. Feb. 16.—An inti
mation by Robert Lansing thit Vice
President Marshall should take over
President Wilson’s duties during his
illness was the direct cause of Mr.
Lansing’s resignation, according to
information today from a source
usually well informed.
The suggestion was made months
ago, but >eame to Mr,. Wilson’s ears
only recently. A few hours after
ward. it was stated, he acted to force
Mr. Lansing- out of the cabinet.
Relations between the president
and the secretary of state had been
chilly for more than a year, accord
ing- to this- information. The presi
dent, it was said, regarded Mr. Lans
ing’s. suggestion as a personal af
front, and as “the laAt straw.” It
climaxed a long'series of irritations.
The is believed, felt he
could not resume his active work in
co-operation with the man who had
suggested his presidential duties
should be delegated to another.
Therefore, he virtually demanded Mr.
Lansing’s resignation.
With regard to the reason given—
calling cabinet meetings—it is point
ed out that Mr... Wilson knew«of these
rneetings, had -known of them for
months, apd that, therefore. they
could not, have precipitated his sud
den demand, upon Mr. Lansing Xor
I information concerning Dr.
I Grayson was;,at- some of the meet-
I ings, and Attorney General Palmer,
I at the time of the coal strike, crisis,
i told the president the conclusions of
! the cabinet with regard to it. and
I laid them before him.
Colonel House Peacemaker
Colonel House, it was learned, in
i tervened to preserve bearable rela-
I lions between the two while they
j were in Paris, but after their re
i turn to the United States, when Col
j onel House no longer saw the presi
dent, this influence was removed and
i the bitterness between the two men
: increased.
I Nomination of a new secretary of
: state was awaited with intense in
! terest m Washington today as the
: next development in the virtually
! forced resignation of Secretary Lan
■ sing.
Those most likely to be nominated
I are believed to be the following:
John W. Davis, United States am
‘ bassaclor to Great Britain.
Frank L. Polk, under secretary of
; state' and now acting secretary for
| thil'ty days after the resignation of
| Lansing, and Newton D. Baker, secre-
I tary of’war.
A Closed Incident
The disposition at both the .White
: House and the state department to
day was to-leave the Wilson-Lansing
I break a closed incident.
j Former Secretary of Commerce
i Redfield's statement in New York
j Saturday that at the first of the
“unauthorized” cabinet meetings last
October, Admiral Grayson. President
Wilson’s personal physician, brought
an inquiry, from the president to the
•cabinet, was confirmed by White
House attaches today.
I The -differences between Wilscr.
and Lansing are understood to date
back to just before the entrance o£
the United States into the war >vh«n
Lansing issued his statement that
the country was on the verge of .war,
and the president unsuccessfully
tried to recall it.
The nomination of John W. Davie
to succeed Lansing has been pre
dicted in a usually well-informed
quarter. Davis, formerly the solic
itor general of tiie United States,
has had much experience in his woric
ITHREATTO GIVE OP
i EUROPEANAFFAIBS
OFFICIALLY DENIED
J Interpretation of President’s
i Note on Fiume Too Sweep-
ingj Statement From White
House Declares
PARIS, Feb. 16.—Premier Miller
and in an interview’ today, admitted
that President Wilson's intervention
in the Adriatic question had again
■delayed solution of that problem.
I “The reply which we (the big
i three) have up to his note
| Will be submitted' to him through
j the' American ambassadors- in Lon
i don and Paris,” Mr. Millerand said.
“While it is necesary to maintain
■ secrecy regarding the contents of
; this document until President Wll
; son receives it, nevertheless it may
I be stated that further delay before
i we reach a solution is inevitable.”
“The conversations in London were
marked especially by the mutual de
sire of France and England for the
closest relations. Complete agree
ment was quickly reached. I am
extremely satisfied that it is a very’
good start.”
Regarding the negotiations with
Germany over the list of war guilty,
the premier said:
“The reply to Germany regarding
war guilty maintains the principle
of article “23 of the peace treaty. It'
is not exact to say a breach has
been opened in the treaty and that
v.’e have capitulated in favor of a
reconciliation with Germany—which
has been suggested by certain per
! sons in England and Italy. In fact,
I the decision made gives the allies
I new grounds to demand from the,
; German government and people ex
j ecution of all clauses pertaining to
; reparations.”
M. Millerand. said, the big three
■ hUs reached complete agreement re
garding Turkey. France, he said,
bdd modified her views regarding
-Inilitary and naval terms of the
Turkish pact, which will be fixed by
a commission of experts, headed by
Marshal Foch. This work, he said,
would begi nina-mefiiately.
Faria Xs Stirred
The French press- is aroused
by reports, • since denied in
Washington, that President Wil
son Iras ©ent a note to
the entente, informing them that
if they settle the Adriatic question
without American, concurrence, the
United States can not concern itself
further w’ith settlement of pending
European questions.
La Liberte is particularly bitter
in its criticism, declaring that Mr.
Wilson, from his ‘‘proud isolation”
in the White House, is again at
tempting to direct affairs on the
continent, “of which he has no con
i ception.” The newspapers said the
i note was delivered to the “big three”
< by Ambassador Wallace and that it
■ declared the United States could not
! iecognize either enforcement of the
I pact of London oi* the recent com
i promise agreement presented to the
* Jugo-Slav government by the council
I of premiers.
“This man, who is opposed in his
own country, is again trying to block
European powers,” said La Liberte.
“After brutally dismissing Secretary
I Lansing, President Wilson, from his
I proud isolation, is again attempting
I to direct affairs on the continent of
I which he has no conception.”
The news of Mr. Wilson’s latest
note was received in Paris almost
simultaneously with reports from
London declaring that the council of
premiers had made substantial pro
gress on settlement of the various
questions.
Coming on the heels of dispatches
telling of the president’s “dismis
sal” of Secretary Lansing, the report
of M ilson’s note created a sensation
in political circles here.
Practically the entire press regard
,ed the Lansing episode as “dismiss
I sal” of the Secretary, and char
acterized it as “autocratic and un
justifiable.”
French Comment
•’The manner of elimination of
Secretary Lansing leaves no' doubt
that Wilson’s autocracy is re-awak
ening,” La Bresse declared.
The Journal "*des Dabats believed
that “on account of .Mr. Wilson’s ill
ness. Secretary Eansing was perfect
ly excusable 'in having assembled
the cabinet to deal with essential
problems.”
“Mr. Wilson has re-entered the
■Scene bj- brusquely and brutally dis
missing Secretary Lansing,” L’ln
transigeant declared. This newspa
per, however, saw hope in the fact
that Under Secretary Frank Polk “is
a great defender of France’s inter
ests.”
Comment varied on the reported ac
tion of the president in threatening
to withdraw if the United States’ at
titude on the Adriatic question is not
upheld. *
The Journal des Debate believed
Mr, Wilson’s action "pointed in the
right direction.” but La Presse de
clared that “the moment the Adriatic
question is near settlement. President
Wilson seems about to break tip ev
erything by threatening to with
draw.”
L’Tntransigeaat sa-id non-coihmital
ly that in view of the fact the United
j.States controls immense quantitiei
I of francs', pounds and lire, the allies
.'will be reluctant to. release the thun
derbolts of wrath.”
in connection.with the peace negotia
tions.
Baker Is “Dark House"
Polk has become familiar with the
duties.pf the secretary of state dur
ing his service as acting secretary
and while lie was head of the Ameri
can peace delegation in Paris. Polk
also served as counsellor of the st-ite
u.epartinent. Tt is believed- that Pob:
would accept the nomination.
Baker is the “dark horse" in the
speculation as to who will be the
next secretary. The secretary
war is said to be in perfect Larmonv
with the policies of President Wil
son.
In event Wilson selects Belter. A'- i
sistant Secretary of War Benedict j
Crowell probably would be made!
head of the var department.
te'
Judge William T. Newman
Passes Away at Atlanta
Home After Brief Illness
Beloved Jurist a Distinguish
ed Confederate Veteran
and Oldest District Judge
in United States
Judge William T. Newman, re
vered and beloved Atlantian. dis
tinguished Confederate veteran and,
in point of service, the. oldest dis
trict judge in the United States,
died at 7:10 o’clock Saturday morn
ing at his home, 54 Forrest avenue,
Atlanta.
Death came suddenly but quietly
to the man whose passing will be
mourned as far as his name is
known. He had not been feeling
well for several days and had re
mained at home, although not con
fined to his bed. Saturday morning,
when he was called for breakfast,
he started to get up, when he was
seized with a sudden heart attack.
He died a few minutes later, with
out further pain, as though he but
went to sleep. Members of the fam
ily were with him at the end.
Judge Newman is survived by his
wife, who was Miss Fanny Alexan
der, of Knoxville, Tenn.; by three
children, Mrs. John Patterson, of
Richmond, Va.t Henry A. Newman
and Miss Frances Newman, of At
lanta, and by one grandson. Lewis
Rucker, who lives at the Newman
home on Forrest avenue. Another
daughter, Mrs. Walter Howard, died
recently.
The death of Judge Newmai) will
cause more sincere a’nd universal
sorrow than that of any Georgia
citizen who has passed away in
years. To the city of Atlanta as a
whole, to his thousands of personal
friends, to the legal fraternity of
the state and the nation, to hundreds
of more humble folk—offenders
against the law—it brings grief un
measured.
Had Served 34 Yeare
Atlanta loses one of her most hon
ored citizens, a pioneer of thh fast
’ diminishing “Old Guard” which has
ever been the city’s strength and
pride. The Georgia bar will miss
him as. the dean of all United States
district judges, a. pillar and a shin
ing light of law. And those others,
the njen and women who from time
Ito time have sinned against the
statutes and 4, co-ine before; Judge
Newman for .ludgment—-many of
them •Will mourn the loss of their
“best friend.” one who helped them
even while he condemned.
Judge Newman was in the seventy
seventh year of his life,, and haxl
served thirty-four years continuous
ly on the bench—the longest period,
the records show, that; the office of
United States district judge has been
.filled by any present occupant of such
office in the country.
He was born June 23. 1843. near
Knoxville, Tenn., and there spent his
boyhood. His' father was the late
Mr. Henry B. Newman, and his moth
er was the late Mrs. Martha A. New
man.
« Xccord During Civil War
When the Civil war broke out.
Judge Newman was only seventeen
years. Although so young, he en
listed in the Second Tennessee cav
alry. the Lookout Rangers, as a pri
vate. After valiant service in the
field, he wa;s promoted to the rank
of lieutenant a year later. In the
latter part of 1865 he was wounded
and captured, a prisoner at John
son’s Island until he was exchanged.
Returning to the front, he was
wounded again near Jonesboro’, Ga.,
in the last year of the Avar. The
wound cost him his right arm, for
it was terribly shattered and he lay
for some time on the field. The man
who carried him off at last used to
visit Judge NeAvman in later years
at the federal building, and never
did that occasion arise but Judge
Newman invited him to a. seat on
the platform and had him remain
there until court adjourned.
After the war Judge Newman took
up his residence in Atlanta. He be
gan the study of law under the late
Judge John L. Hopkins, for years one
of the most distinguished jurists in
the state. He /was admitted to the
Georgia bar in 1866, and immediately
began practice. For many years lie
was in partnership with Judge W. I>.
Ellis, of the Fulton superior court.
Appointed by Cleveland
Judge Newman was first appoint
ed judge of the northern district of
Georgia by President Grover Cleve
land in 1886. It was Cleveland’s first
judgeship appointment, it is said,
and was made Avhen a successor was
named on the d€*ath of Judge Henry
J. McCay. The United States senate
was in recess at the time so that
Judge Newman took tiie oath of of
fice twice, once on Augus’t 21, 188 G,
when the appointment was first made
and he was sworn in to serve during
the recess, and again on January 28,
1897, after the senate had reassem
bled and confirmed the appointment.
Six years ago, when he passed his
seventieth milestone. Judge Newman
might have retired under the law
that pozwits a fn'lcr.i: judge to ."ct're
on full pay after the age of seventy.
The law permits three courses—this
or continuance, or, if the judge is
unable to perform a 1 ! the duties of
his office, the appointment of an
other judge to assist him.
Judge Newman chose the second i
course until, last ysar. when the i
press of the circuit basinet.- grev. j
so great that he decided to ask Cor <
the appointment o ' another judge, j
Judge Samue l L. Sibley wax- ap- ■
pointed and too!; the oath of office. |
August 23. 1919. O'i Judge Nev.-- ;
man’s deat’a Judge Sib’.'y autoim;r,- |
ically takes up the entire business of
the court. There i.iil ' .to |
c-essor appointee.
Although ti e c . 1■! > ,
judge- el. ■■ J <g.- Si'.h ; - . : ■
pointed, .lud-’c Nevm.--n . ontinuej to!
serve active’” tint';! the last, pre ' -•
in; at the sc--’ ions in A Innta. i. hiiei
.Tuci.re Sidle.• p.-esiued t'-us. o’, -i ?,■ 1
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JUDGE WILLIAM T. NEWMAN
SPIRITED GIGGING
FEATURESSfiLEDF
FOGMEG HON SHIPS
Senate Passes Resolution
Requesting Shipping Board
to Defer Transfer of Ves
sels Temporarily
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Bidding
in millions, General George W. Goe
thals and P. A. S. Franklin today en
gaged in a spirited contest for five
of the cx-German liners, auction of
■Which started at the shipping board
here today.
While the auction’was in progress,
the senate adopted the McKellar reso
lution directing the ■ board
to hold up tempot'arily the proposed
sale..
The first bid for the liners was
$10,000,000, When the auction ad
journed for lunch the highest bid
was $13,100,000, by Franklin.
For Hamburg-American
The George Washington, President,
■Wilson’s ship, heads the list of six
which are to go into Hamburg-
American service. The others were
the Martha Washington, America,
President Grant, Calloa and Manse
mond.
Goethals represented the Ameri
can Ship and Commerce corporation
and Franklin is head of the Inter
national Mercantile Marine.
Board Commissioner Thomas Scott
opened the auction an hour before
tlie first bid was received.
Bids in Millions
Goethals then made the $ 10,(t00,-
000 bid.
:‘l will offer $10,500,000,” said
Franklin.
Goethals was on his feet with an
offer of $10,750,000.
A ten-minute pause followed,
while Franklin figured rapidly on a
pad.
‘l’p one hundred.” said Franklin,
offering a bid of $10,850,000.
Without delay Goethals offered
$11,000,000.
“One million dollars in twenty
minutes, well earned,” said .Auction
eer Scott.
Goethals Jumps Bid
Goethals at one time jumped his
bid $400,000, but at lunch Franklin
had bid $13,100,000.
Other moves in the ships’ sale and
the effort to halt them today were:
Justice Bailey, in the District of
Columbia supreme court, after hear
ing arguments for an injunction to
restrain the sale, announced he
would hand down his decision next
Friday.
A letter from the senate commerce
committee requesting President Wil
son to keep John Barton Payne at
the head of the shipping' board until
pending problems are disposed of
was received at the AVhite House.
Payne is to become secretary of the
interior Marell 1.
Debate on the ship sales broke out
in the senate when Senators Ashurst
and McKellar pressed for action on
their resolutions to defer them.
Total of $32,350,000
The morning session of the auction
closed with a total of $32,350,000 of
fered for twenty-one vessels. The
individual top bids w'ere $14,050,000
by the International Mercantile Ma
rine for nine ships for service to the
United Kingdom and northern conti
nental ports; a bid of $13,100,000 by
tiie same corporation for six vessels
for service to Hamburg- and Bremen;
$4,500,000 offered by Moore & Mc-
Cormack for five ships for South
American service and the Oriental
Navigation company’s bid of $700,000
for the Black Arrow, individually,
for Black sea service.
Referred to Committee
All bids, tiioset sealed and tbo :e
made in the auction, must be sub
mitted to the senate c-irn:ru ca;.'-
mittce approval .’.icfoie accept
ance.
At 10 o'clock. Tl: A. S.’-jlt. of
»1»t- shipping board, beari-,. to offer, the
ships in groups oi’ four and five.
cording to the service : i will; i she
shipping board i-.skei that the Tir.-“
promise to con’.inn ■ ' th-m. At 11
o’ciol-jCbft had gon-j throu a th ■
entire ,i;.“ v.itli no bids J!e t'.vi
asked l,r-‘ bids i- o.'i' red :■ c.-.r-.’i:'-'.-
to fii.- group:::;; the purer-: —r '■:! fi t
w. I! --. r ; ■: tin t th . I'. . bi-l
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MEETINGSINCRISIS
Differences Between Presi-
I dent and Lansing of Long
Standing, but Resignation
j s a Surprise z-.
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WASHINGTGON, D. C.—Rebukefo
by President Wilson for calling cab
inet meetings during his illness, Sec*
retary Lansing has resignjitf.
The president has accepted CM*
resignation ’"with appreciation.” anffi
Mr. Lansing becomes the second sfeC
i retary of state to leave the admin*.
: istration over a disagreement witit
his chief.
Although the correspondence
tween Mr. Lansing and the president
which appears on page nine in- to
day’s Semi-Weekly,- makes the call
ing of the cabinet meetings the in*'
, cident which leads directly to ‘the!
! secretary’s resignation, ipersons onj
; the “inside” of the admipistratioh; s
i who know what has been going oni
' say that was only an incident anti
| that the real reasons for the Tjreafc
go back over a perior of mahyt
: months and come from fundamental
> differences of opinion in policy.
I The disagreement between ■ thfi
I president and the head of the' states
department even ante-date the entry;
of the United States into the war*
The relations between the two men
almost reached the breaking point*
early in ,1917 When Mr. Lansing is*
sued his celebrated statement • say*
ing the United States was . daily be
ing drawn nearer and nearer to fore
cast the of the United States-
The president made every efforC
to overtake the statement after it;
had been given out at the state de
partment, built Avas impossible.
When Mr. Lansing went as a mem
ber of the American peace delega*
tion to Taris more differences de
veloped. With other members of
the American mission he was nqt i|i
accord with, the president’s idea ot'
making the treaty bf peace and tha
convenant of■ the-League of Nations
one and the same inseparable
ument. It was-Mr. Lansing's idea
that such a plan would delay the
ratification of a peace treaty ‘and
this he was supported by Henry;
White and E..M. House.
It may be I said with a great de
gree of ( authority that while ths
president and Mr. Lansing were tar •
gether in. Paris other differences of
more than minor ’nature developed
and this is confirmed by the
ence which-the presfdc.nt niakes not<J -
lin one of his letters.
J Saw Wilson Barely
i When President Wilson went bacß
to Paris last March and^ found that
during his brief absence in the United
’ States Mr. Lansing and the others
of the American mission had agreed*
■! tentatively at least, to have the
terms and the League of Nations cov«
I enant separated, the situation cam®
j very near a breaking point and prob*
; ably was avoided only because thiv
i president thought it more important
not to let European statesmen see e*
split in the American peace delega*
tion. While Mr. Lansing probably*
saw and conferred with tiie president
i in Paris as much as any other mem-
I ber of the American mission, it wag
: a matter of remark that he saw’ hirgl
I very little.
However, the incident which caind
nearer a break than any other wag
the sensational’testimony of William’
C. Bullitt, one of the experts attached
to the American peace mission, he«*
fore the senate foreign relations com
mittee. Bullitt, as will be recalled
reading from a diary, quoted Secre*
tary Lansing as having told him h#
was out of sympathy with the League
of Nations covenant and as predict
ing that the treaty would fall if th4
American people ever learned of it®,
full import. ; ■>
Mr. Lansing, obviously in a ver#s
difficult position, did not repudiatfli
Bullitt’s statements although it wm
momentarily expected in Washing'twil’
that he either would repudiate them
w resign his office. President Wih
son was at the time on his sp£ak-*
ing tour in the’ west. To say he wa®
upset by Bullitt’s story and his quo
tations of the secretary of state
it mildly. Officials in the presidential
party who knew the workings <f the
president’s mind expected to see the
secretary’s resignation askec: 'for.
when the president returned to Wash
ington. These same officials believta
now that the breakdown when sent
; the president home a very sick man'
I was the only thing which prevented
Mr. Lansing, however, never saw
the president again, and did all his
business with the chief executive "lit
I writing. The relations between the
! men remained very much strained.
I and then Mr. Lansing’s action in
i calling the cabinet together brought
: them to the breaking point.
Ugly Rumors Afloat
Those who were present at th(»
first cabinet meeting describe a (
rather tense and dramatic scene
t.ongress was full of rumors til at
the president was so disabled as to
be constitutionally unable to dls
; charge the functions of his office,
' There was talk of what might' be
: none to place Vice President Mar
, shall at the head of the governnfent
; and how congre ss-/anight go about
I (Continued on Page 11, Col. 7.)
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