Evening star., 1915-02-20
SUGGESTS THAT BRYAN
RESIGN FROM CABINET
Representative Rogers Assails Poll
cies Toward Other American
Republics.

In a bitter denunciation of State De-
partment policies toward other Ameri-
can republics. and especially severe
criticism of the men selected for diplo-
matte posts there, Representative Rog-
ers OF Massachusetts, suggested in the
House of Representatives late yester-
day that Secretary Bryan resign from
the cabinet. Mr.. Rogers outlined in
great detail the Sullivan-Vick episode,
after giving the House u history of
Santo Domingo conditions for years
past He read into the Record the now
famous letter of Secretary Bryan to
Walter w. Wick, and then said:
In view of the extremely uneasy
temper of the inhabitants of Santo Do
mingo: in view of the fact that our re-
lationship to that island was that of a
tiduciary and Il guardian; in view of the
fact that Latin America was watching
closely our conduct there; in view of
the fact that United States partisan
politics had always been rigidly ex-
cluded from the island; in view of re-
peated and enlightened utterances
upon disinterested friendship Tor Latin
America made by the apostle OF (gold)
peace it would seem as If the United
States had a right and duty to ask
the writer of the Wick letter to indite
another epistle-a letter of resignation
as Secretary of State
discusses OCn6r 1udS6S.
In closing, Representative Rogers
said:
There are many other phases of the
recent activity of the State Depart
ment which l should like to discuss.
supplementary to my speech of April
>. 1914, on the diplomatic service; 1
should like to pay my tribute to the
thoughtful invitation rendered to the
rI.lr, n n lTfI n "A a II
the opening of the Panama canal; 1
should like to refer to the strange case
of George Fred Williams. minister to
Greece. IA lawyer who almost made
with the case of Madison R. Smith.
who was the first white man who ever
served minister to the Haitian end
of the Island of Santo DOMINGO. o
has eulogized the Secretary of State
and Assistant Secretary Osborne as
the greatest diplomats of all time TO
assist whom the State Department was
obliged to rush down u special secre-
his office and who was recently per-
mitted to return permanently to the
classic shades of Pennington. Mo.
Il should like to take up the case of
recently appointed minister to Uru-
guay-a job which, it is said, the Sec
retary of State turned over bag and
baggage to the Arkansas senators to
parcel out TO some unusually deserving
democrat from their state; l should
like to speculate why young Mr.. Hor-
nibrook of Albany. Ore, unknown even
by name to any of the three Oregon
members of Congress, was appointed
minister to Siam-unless, indeed, it is
the fact that he is connected with u
little weekly newspaper, the Albany
Democrat; 1 should like to scrutinize
the ethics of the appointment as vice
consul of John L. Outright of Lincoln.
Neb., who is the son of an erstwhile
political enemy of Mr.. Bryan, now rec
onciled by this appointment, and who
wrote so indiscreetly pro-German
statements that it was necessary sum-
marily to recall him from his English
post. All these are fruitful fields of
Inquiry, but time is now lacking for
any adequate treatment. l may take
occasion at some later date to refer to
some of them more in detail"