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Imitet jlemMWleekla 3ournaT 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.) / fl _ f - ' i jßwgiwijfc. 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 ‘-•r -■ ! t : ,'i-i’.borin-.-, A C 4 " ■ <lll H jit — \ - on' 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 Neaviy iOO s'l.p . a. 1 <”c •■.'.•i'’- '. on x -ge 11, Cel. I.' 5 CENTS A COPY. A I’EAE. WILSON PROTESTED HOLDING CJBINET MEETINGSINCRISIS Differences Between Presi- I dent and Lansing of Long Standing, but Resignation j s a Surprise z-. i i 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.) ASK MR. HASKIN 11 A-ny reader of The Scnji -1 Weekiy Journal can get the an-” I - - wer to ;ny question puzzling him by writing to The Atlanta,, .lournal’." Information Bureau, i i‘'rederic I. Haskin, I Washington. D. C. This offer.f£p t'lies strictly to inform atjcfn The burei.’i cannot give advicot.bn legal, medical and financial ffiftt ters. it docs not attempt to set-- ' <1 <ntitrouble::, or to uj>- , dwta!'.- exhaustive research cn :vi.-- iii'.j.'act. Write your quesifipu ..'.Ji,.’. - r.n.i b’rietl: . 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