Arizona republican., 1915-07-14
Permits Statement to Be Issued Announcing Sit uation Will Be Consider eel at Cabinet Meeting to Be Held Next Tuesday
STILL REGARD
 SITUATION GRAY F.
Secretary Lansing is DeVot- ine Entire Time to Study of Law and Policy and Will Have Opinion Ready for Cabinet Conference
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WASHINGTON. July 12.-The first official announcement of the mmedi- ate plans of the president for dealing with the situation that mas ausen be- tween Germany and the United States came out tonight in a telegram from Cornish To Secretary Tumulty stating the president would return to Wash mgton soon to lay the entire subject before the cabinet probably Tuesday
 It IS indicated the president has not yet arrived at a decision as to the pol icv of the government The statement set at rest reports that the president had already made mp his mind on the German reply and that he did not view the situation Ie seriously as did high officials in Washington The official opinion here has continued to regard the situation as grave.
 The White House statement follows.
 Referring to the statements appear ing in certain morning newspapers with reference to the attitude of the president toward the reply of the Ger man government. Secretary Tumulty gave out the following telegram he had received from the presidents
 Please say that from the moment of the arrival of the official text of the German note. | have given the mat ter the closest attention. and am keep ing constantly in touch with the sec retary Of state and with every source that gill throw light on the situation: that SO soon as the secretary or state and have more thoroughly considered the situation | shall go to Washington to get personal conference for him with the cabinet and that there be ae prompt an announcement as possible of the purposes Of the government " Secretary Lansing and his assistants have been eanvassing the entire field of law and policy presented by the Ger man note and the president has already received some memoranda bearing on the important points Touights state ment made it apparent the president has definitely abandoned the idea Of summoning Secretary Lansing to the summer capital This program con forms to the sccretlry's desire to study the problem seriously and form his own conclusions before exchanging Views with tho president It is assumed tbat President Wilson will return here the last Of the week and that the subject will be laid before the cabinet on Tues day.
 Emphasis has been laid in official quarters that the issues involved are cf such seriousness and importance that consideration for q week or more of what kind Of reply should be made ought not to be construed as meaning the necessity for firm decision on the American policy is underestimated.
 So far as can be gathered here the president will find his advisers prac- tically unanimous in the belief that the crucial point in the correspondencc with Germany over the submarine warfare. has arrived and that if the American government decides not to recedc from it's previously announced position on the principles involved. the next note must convey the more or less pointedly purposes of the United