New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-30
Speaker Threatens to With
draw if Wilson's Policy
Is Not Endorsed
Foes of Draft Scored
Professor Brown Charges Enc
mics of CONSUMPTION Are
Active in the Council

tTfom a stan Correspondent, q Vie Tribunel
Long Beach, Long Island, May %
Professor Samuel McCune Lindsay, OF
Columbia University, chairman of the
executive committee of the National
Conference on Foreign Relations, In
session 1T the Hotel Nassau, Long
Beach, asked Professor Philip Marshall
Brown, Of Princeton, at last nights ses-
sion to withdraw his resolutions IN
dorsing the war policy Of President
Wilson and dcrouncing anti-conscrip'
tionists.
Professor Brown refused. Unless he
succeeds in getting the resolutions be
fore the conference again this morning
and having them adopted, he VIII with
draw from the conference and Will not
make the address he was TO have made
at 10 o'clock. Other delegates have ex-
pressed their intention of taking STINT
lar action, he said. The refusal OF the
conference Immediately TO adopt the
resolutions instead of referring them 70
the executive committee brought the
threat of withdrawal from Professor
Brown after the afternoon session.
The executive committee was unGn-
imous, Professor Lindsay said, in the
opinion that the conference was not
constituted as an organized body, and
could not pass on such resolutions.
Their introduction. he asserted, before
such a gathering was out of order
IL shall not make the speech for
which | am on the programme unless
the resolutions have been adopted by
the hour at which | am to be called.
was the unqualified statement Ct Pro-
lessor Brown tonight. Two delegetes
to this conference signed call for an
anti CONSUMPTION meeting in New York,
for which they are liable to criminal
prosecution for disloyalty. Six or eight
others are known to be opposed 70 the
Presidents policy in carrying on the
war, and | think this reason enough
why there should be no hesitancy in
adopting such resolutions"
Stephen p. Duggan, director OF the
conference and a professor at the Col
lege of the City of New York, said that
practically every member Of the con-
ference probably would favor such res
olutions if permitted to vote as individ-
uals, but that as a body the conference
had no reason for passing upon them
at all.
"Action on the resolutions can mean
nothing, ard nobody has objected to
them because of their contents H.
said. This programme was made up
before the United States entered the
war, and our purpose in coming here
had nothing to do with anything con
tanned in it. That is why there is a
question about voting upon them as a
body"
Mr.. Browns resolution follows:
Believing that the present crisis demands
the utmost loyalty of all Americans. the
National Conference on Foreign Relations
of the United States expresses its unquali-
fled support of the President and of Con-
gress in their efforts To prosecute the war
for democracy to a successful conclusion.
The conference, Furthermore, desires to
express its approval of the efforts of the
government 10 combat all those agencies
and influences which by opposition to the
CONSUMPTION law or any other Federal law
would impede the vigorous prosecution OF
the war and result in destroying the unity
of this nation.
1t was because of an error, according
to Professor Duggan, that reports were
current that the State Department had
refused to permit Rear Admiral +. f..
Chadwick to speak on the subject. THE
Strategic Importance of the Caribbean
The rear admiral was placed upon the
programme before the war, said Mr..
Duggan, and at time when it would
have been proper to make such
speech. After the declaration OF war,
however, the rear admiral decided that
such an address might not be so de-
slrable from a naval standpoint, and
asked to be excused.
The unexpected arrival of Louis p.
Lochner, secretary of the Ford "out-of
the trenches by Christmas" peace
movement, during the morning gave
rise TO further rumors that the confer
ence was to become stepping stone
to peace rather than a patriotic move
ment Nobody could furnish anything
tangible to support such an assertion,
however.
"Open diplomacy" as opposed to the
secret variety and EFFECT of censorship
in international relations" were the
chief subjects of discussion at to-day's
sessions. Dimicio da Cana, Brazilian
Ambassador to the United States, was
enthusiastically applauded as he arose
to speak as a probable future ally Of
this country in the war. His chief sug-
gestion as remedy for the present
secret diplomacy of nations was the APP
pointment of a diplomatic body which
would handle all foreign affairs.
Frederick Roy Martin gave an inti-
mate review of the big news events OF
the present war that had been volun-
tarily censored lie specifically de-
cried the statement from Washington
that speculation about possible peace
terms contains elements OF danger,
thus putting official dlsapproval upon
such discussion.
THAT statement of the State Depart
ment caused the Cabinet, in its fight
for limited censorship, TO lose the
support Of its last newspaper sup
porter in the City of'New York, as that
newspaper gave up the fight this morn
ing" ne said. "If the Cabinet carried
that through we could not hold this
conference. Our State Department
surely could not imagine a press that
would not speculate about possible
peace. At least the Hohenzollerns have
not suppressed such discussion in Ger
many, and surely the Romanoifs did
not succeed"