Arizona republican., 1916-10-29
GIVEN WHY MIR. BRYAN
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 SOMERVILLE, Mass Oct. 28.-The assertion that President Wilson at the time the second Lusitania note was sent to Germany, wrote and afterward withdrew postscript informing the German government that the contents of his previous note were not to be in terpreted too seriously, was reiterated by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in a political address here tonight. The senator added to his statement the an nouncement that information on the subject had come to him in letter from Dr. Charles H. Bailey, of the Tufts Medical school. in which Henry Breckenridge, formerly assistant sec retary of war was quoted as authority for the story of the alleged postscript
 Senator Lodge reviewed the sending or the Lusitania notes and the resig- nation of Secretary of State Bryan He continued: There was one feature about which there was much specula- tion at the time and that was why MT. Bryan allowed his name to be ap- pended to a very strong note couched in the most extreme language possible to diplomacy, and yet resigned so that he need not affix his signature to the very mild note of June g, a note which even man of very strong pacificist tendencies could not have objected to. It was currently reported at the time that the reason for this apparently in- applicable action on Mir. Bryan's part was the fact that the first note as finally sent was not the note to which he had appended his signature.
 Within a few days there has come into my possession direct information upon this subject. contained in the fol- lfzFr rfFzrr 1aff oh Grafton Gushing who forwarded it to me. This writer, Dr. Charles H. Bai- ley. professor in the Tufts Medical school, is a gentleman of high stand ing an6 undoubted veracity.'
 Senator Lodge then read the letter of Dr Bailey, dated October 24. as fol- lows:
 Dear Sir: As you requested, I am submitting 10 you herewith in writing q report of a conversation between Ex- Assistant Secretary Breckenridee and | myself. Leaving San Francisco on 1 July l5, 1916. I rode from that city as far 2s Omaha Nebraska, with Mr 1 Brecl:enridee. During the trip I asked him if he would be willing to answer 1 certain questions with regard to the [ con"I ct of our national affairs during | his connection with the present admin 1 istration. Receiving an affirmative i reply, l asked him among other things as to the truth of the published report ! that, following the so-cal,ed ''strict 1 accoUnts bility" note Secretary Bran had informed Ambassador Dumba that 1 the central powers need not take the | note too seriously. as it was written | for political effect and nome consump- ] ton oniy. He said that in all essential details l had stated the matter cor rectly, which led him of his own ac- cord to tell me the following is not. of course, verbal import. but i sim ly a brief outline of the story by Mir. Breckenridge:
 He stated that following the ccm- pletion of the omit no word or no act not to the satisfaction of the cabinet ] MT. Wilson without the knowledge of any member of the cabinet. except Secretary Bryan himself wrote l pest script which he sent with the note to l the state department for codifieation.
 NIT. Breckenridge stated that both Mir Garrison and he had seen thi; pest l script and ne told me what he claimed E, were its exact words, which, however.
 l cannot repeat exactly, but the sub ! stance was that the imperial German
 government was not to put too serious an interpretation on the words: omit
 no word or act on the contrary he would be inclined. provided the Ger
 man government did not see fit to yield to the demands of the United
 States to use his efforts toward sub
 mitting the entire matter to an impar-
 tial international tribunal, the decision
 10 be made only after the war
 Both note and postscript was sub
 mitted to and signed by Secretary
 Bryan. This, according to Mir. Breck-
 enridse was too good for MT. Bryan
 to keep to himself with the result that
 it reached Secretary Garrisons ears.
 who immediately with two or three,
 do not remember which, other mem-
 bers of the cabinet. called upon Mir.
 Wilson and demanded that he with
 draw the postscript under the threat
 that otherwise they would resign and
 make the matter public. Mir. Wilson
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