New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-03
Senators Called Into Night Confer
enCe to Exchange Views on
Nations Next Step
CABINET MEMBER PREDICTS
SWIFT, "SERIOUS" DECISION
Another Adviser of Executive, After Confer
ence, Hints Wilson May Wait for Sink
ing of American Ship
By STEVENSON II. EVANS


Washington Feb 2-There will be rupture of the dpo-
matte relations between the United States and Germany and
anv we'll informed men here believe will be the outcome
But no one Washington the President knows ex
acty when that break will There is just faint shadow
of hope that Germany will back down and rescnd s deca
ration of ruthless submarine warfare.
President Wilson went to the Capitol this afternoon He
visited the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee Stone of Missouri the atters office Aerward he
sixteen members the Democratic majority in the President
room, adjoining the Senate lobby.
Stands on Sussex Ultmatum
He told the men that the United States would stand pat
position taken in the famous Sussex note sent to
Germany April 49, 1916 Description OF or comment upon
the concluding paragraph that note could not possibly be as
strong as the words of communication They follow
If it is still the purpose of the Imperial German
Government to prosecute relentless and ndscrlmlnate
warfare against vessels of by the of sub
marines without regard what the government of the
United States must consider the sacred and ndsputabe
rules of international law and the universally recognized
dictates humanity the of the United States
is at forced the conclusion that there is but
course can pursue Unless the Imperial German Gov
ernment should Immediately declare and effect an
abandonment of its present methods Of submarine war
fare against passenger and freight carrying vessels the
the United States have choice but
diplomatic relations with the German Empire alto-
gether This action the government of the United States
conempates with the greatest reluctance but feels
strained behalf of humanity and the rights Of
neutral nations.
Washington Asking "When?'
The unanswered questiOnunanswered apparently even IN
the mind of President Wilson'S When will the United States
sand pat? Will this take the note of the Ger
man government its face value that it intends to sink Amer
lean merchantmen venurng into that of the high seas
hooc od bIG
ernment wait until some act has been committed wait
until some such tragedy that of the Lusana actually has
taken place before diplomatic relations with the Ger
man Empire altogether?
1t goes without saying among those who urging
that the President continue watchfuy wait that the first
overt act result the instant recall of Ambassador Gerard
and the dismissal of Count Bernstorf.
But in German quarters it made clear tonight that
even break in diplomatic relations which being pondered
bv the United States as crushing reonder the mpuden
German threat of ghuness against neutras has no great
terrors for Germany.
Break Will "Mean Nothing
what is break in relations" a very prominent German
here asked It means nothing 1t is at worst only an en-
phatic sort of protest"
Speaking not diplomat but student OF history the
como German admitted that whenever rst class
powers had broken diplomatic negotiations war inevitably hao
followed. .
At the conclusion of the second day since the receipt Oh
the hostile note from Germany in which the lmpeai govern
ent declared its desperate policy the government OF the
limited States stands apparently undecided But men hgh "
circles declare that the suspense WI" De over
or next day. at the latest Apparently the Presi-
dent has spent the day osclatng between two panshai