The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1915-07-15
PRESIDENT Will
MEET ADVISERS
Intends Consulting Cabinet on
German Situation.
WILL RETURN TO WASHINGTON

Chief Executive Authorizes Announces
ment That Secretary of State Ian.
sing and Himself Are Considering
the Matter and That Governments
Conclusions Will Be Announced
Promptly.
Washington, July 14.-The first Of
fetal announcement of the immediate
plans of President Wilson for dealing
with the situation that has arisen be-
tween Germany and the United States
came in a telegram from Cornish, NJ
H., to Secretary Tumulty, saying the
president will return to Washington
soon to lay the entire subject before
his cabinet
1t indicated the president has not
yet arrived at decision as to the
policy of the government. The White
House statement follows:
referring to statements appearing
in certain morning newspapers with
reference to the attitude of the presi-
dent toward the reply of the German
government Secretary Tumulty gave
out the following telegram, which he
had received from the president:
Please say that from the moment
of the arrival of the official text of the
German note l have given the matter
the closest attention, keeping con-
ct in %h@ 10
of state and with every source that
would throw light on the situation;
that so soon as the secretary of state
and I have maturely considered the
situation l shall go to Washington to
get into personal conference with
him and with the cabinet and that
there will be as prompt an announce
ment as possible of the purposes of
the government
The statement set at rest reports
that the president already has made
up his mind on the German reply and
that he did not view the situation as
seriously as did other high officials
in Washington.
Regards Situation as Grave.
Official opinion here continued to
regard the situation as grave. Secre-
tary Lansing and other members of
the cabinet hold this view, but are
giving no intimations of how they
think the problem should be dealt
with.
The statement from the White
House made it apparent that the pres
ident has abandoned the idea of
summoning Mr.. Lansing to the sum-
mer capital. This program conforms
to the secretary's desire to study the
problem and form his own conclu-
sions before exchanging views with
the president. 1t is assumed, how
ever, that Mr.. Wilson will return here
the last of the week and that the sub
ject will be laid before the cabinet
next Tuesday.
So far as can be gathered the presi-
dent will find his advisers practically
unanimous in the belief that the cru
cial point in the correspondence with
Germany over submarine warfare has
been reached and that if the Ameri-
can government is not to recede from
it's previously announced position on
the principles involved the next note
must convey more or less pointedly
the purposes of the United States in
the event of further violations of
American rights in the war zone.
1t is the general view in official
quarters that a statement of the pur-
pose Of the United States to assert
it's rights, notwithstanding Germany's
inhibitions on the use of belligerent
ships by Americans, seems most like
ly to be made in the next note. 1t is
believed such action would not lead
to a rupture in relations, unless an
overt act or fragrant violation of the
principles for which the United States
has been contending should ensue.