The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-10
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should be deferred until after the
German difficulty had been solved.
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should be deferred until after tn
German difficulty had been solved.
Pressure OF an extremely stron
sort is now being brought to bear t
have the president act Immediately
Representative Webb OF North Care
lima, and other southern representa-
tives who have seen the executive
lately, believe the note will be pre-
pared and sent forward within thu
next fortnight. II the note is dispatch
ed, 1t will take the position that thu
United States refuses to recognize thu
underlined blockade declared by thu
allies against German commerce. L
they want to bottle UP the German
coast, they will be told, they must dc
it an effective manner with q blockad
ing squadron as demanded by the
laws of the seas.
On the position taken by the allies
that they can and will interfere with
commerce to neutral Scandinavian
countries and to Holland unless guar.
antees are given that the goods con
signed to them will not get to Ger
many the United States will take a
much more positive stand.
[By John Edwin Nevin. United Press
Staff Correspondent
1 WASHINGTON June 1O.-Presi-
dent Wilson will rest his cause, in
the German-American controversy.
on his note. to be handed to the Ber
lin foreign office today.
He believes the note will entirely
justify his position. Consequently
neither he nor his friends will answer
Ex-secretary of State Bryan's ex-
PLANTATION of the reasons why he re.
signed from the Wilson Cabinet.
The president is understood to have
taken the position that 1t was not the
killing of 115 Americans that made
the Lusitania incident the cause for
the note Of May Is, but rather the
method by which they were killed.
The United States. in its original
note OF February TO-, emphasized that
If Americans were sacrificed as VIC
tins OF the German submarine policy,
this government would hold Germany
to strict accountability" In pursu-
ance Of that announcement, the note
Of May Ii was dispatched. The presi-
dent considered the German reply I'M
responsive and the note now be-
ltlieved to be in Berlin plainly says so.
1t was learned today that after he
had signed the note as acting secre-
tary, Counsellor Lansing presented it
to Secretary Bryan to be read over. |
He did this as courtesy by direction |
Of the president as the understanding /
between the president and Bryan was !
that while his resignation had been
accepted, it did not became effective
until after the note actually had been
started for Berlin. There had been
some changes made in 1t, but on the
question of Germany's responsibility
a ri OH q
under International law, the president
had stood pat"
He asked Germany to accept the
recognized rules of international war
fare as applied to commerce on the
high seas; her announcement that
she will do this will clear the atmos-
phere. The president, it was stated,
confidently expects q favorable reply.
II one is not forthcoming, he and his
cabinet will consider what further
steps are to be taken.
There is no alternative proposition
contained in the note. Germany is
furnished with the facts on record in
Washington concerning the Lusitania
status. They dispute the German con-
tention that the liner really was an
armed auxiliary cruiser. carrying am
munition. The reference in this con-
nection is said on authority to be OF
such nature, however, as not to an
tago:Aze the German government
Ihe note says, it Is explained, that ,
if Germany has any legal proof indi I
eating that officials were derelict, per-
hitting false manifests to be filed and
ships to violate neutrality, the United
states government will receive them .
and punish all officials found guilty cf
such misconduct
The administration may be forced to
recall Ambassador Gerard, it is con-
coded, should Germany remain unwill-
ing to say that she will protect Amer
lean citizens in the exercise of their
guaranteed rights. 1t was learned.
however, that even If this should hap
pen the United States will not admit
the possibility of war. Instead the
responsibility of acting will be put
up to Germany. A war declaration by +,
the United States against Germany is
said to be farthest from the presi-
dents thoughts.
There was a disposition on the part
of officials everywhere today, however
to hope for the Dest.
Note in Frye Case.
WASHINGTON, June 10.-The Will
liam P. Frye case must go to prize
court, Germany insists.
Through Ambassador Gerard, Ber-
lin, the state department today receiv-
ed the German reply to this country's Il
representations, relative to the sink
ing of the American sailing vessel,
with its wheat cargo. consigned ito !
order" in England, by the kaiser's
raider Prinz Eitel Friedrich
The Washington government had
sought to have the matter settled be-
tween the state department and the
German embassy in Washington and
it was supposed for time that this
arrangement would be satisfactory to