The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-14
PRESIDENT HAS NOT REACHED DECISION
 ON GERMAN CRISIS
Will Retlrn to Washington Soon and Lay Whole Problem Before
 Cabinet

Washington, July 13.-Tbe first offi- sons immediate plans for dealing with the situation that has arisen between Germany and the United states came tonight in telegram from Cornish. N. H., to Secretary TumuIty, stating that the President would return to Washington soon to lay the entire subject before the cabinet. The mes- sage indicated that the President hnd arrived at no decision as to the Amer saidi
 Referring to statements appearing in certain morning newspapers with refer ence to the attitude of the President to- ward the reply of the German govern ment, Secretary Tumulty this evening 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 I have given the matter the closest attention, keeping constantly In touch with the Secretary of State and with every source that would throw light on the situation; that so soon as the Sec retary of State and l have both maturely considered the situation, I shall go to Washington to get Into personal confer ence 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 had made up his mind on the German reply, and that he did not view the situation as seriously did high officials in Washington. Word from the President was sought by of- ficials here, 1t Is understood, as a result of the spread of varying interpretations of reports from Cornish of the execu- tive's intentions.
 Official opinion here continued to re- gard the situation as grave. Secretary Lansing and other members of the cabi- net who are here. hold his view. but are giving no intimations of how they think the problem should be dealt with Mir. Lansing and his assistants have been canvassing the entire field of law and policy presented by the German note, and the President already has received some of the memoranda bearing on i'm portant points.
 Will Not Summon Lansing
 Todays statement from the White House made it apparent that the Presi- dent has definitely abandoned the idea of summoning MT. Lansing to the sum mer capital. This program conforms to the secretarys desire to study the, prob lem carefully and form his own conclu- sions before exchanging views with the President It is assumed, however, that MT Wilson will return here the last of the week, and that the subject will be laid before the ca binet next Tuesday.
 Emphasis has been laid in official quar- ters on the fact that the issues involved are of such seriousness and importance that consideration for a week or more of the kind of reply that should be made ought not to be construed meaning that the necessity for firm definition of American policy was under esti- me ted
 So far as can be gathered here the President will find his advisers practi- cally una nimous in the belief that ths crucial point in the correspondence with Germany over submarine warfare has ar rived and that if the American govern ment 10 not to recede from its previously announced position on the principles in-
 olyed, the next note must convey more or less pointedly the purposes of the Uni ted States in the event of further viola tions of American rights in the war zone. Just what the United States should say with reference to Germanys refusal to disavow the intention to destroy Ameri- can lives on the Lusitania has not crys-
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