Arizona republican., 1919-09-22
A Water Haul


 It was a mentally strenuous week Secretary of State Lansing put in his retirement Water town New York. What with fishing in a nearby brook and what with angling in the depths of circumstances created by William c. Bultt the secretary busy man. Doubtless the secretary often wonders what old Isaak Walton found in fishing that peasureable. How could a supposedly sedentary occu patton be so arduous?
 MT. Lansing has doubtless been torn between re- signing his high office and denying the Bult state ment made to the senate foreign relations committee a week ago. He found himself unable to do either But he has chosen middle and irrelevant by advising after days of profound silence the rat caton, just as it stands without amendment, of the peace treaty which he had said thoroughly bad and which would be If the American people knew what it contained"
 Mir. Lansing think, probably would have elected to refute the of MT. Bultt if the could have done But there two why he could not The first that in very large he had previously the Bullitt in his own testimony before the senate com mttee foreign relations. The other the very high. confidential relation Mir Bullitt the Amer ican peace delegation "the clearing house" of in- formation within the delegation. He was probably closer to the president and Colonel House than MT. Lansing any other member of the delegation
 Before the appearance of MT. Lansing in the ate committee indeed before his from Paris it was generally known that he had vigorously opposed agreement to the Shantung provision of the treaty and that he supported by MT White and General Bliss While before the committee he gave his interpretation to many features of the treaty and the covenant that varied from those of the president Later the president admitted that the opinions expressed by Mir Lansing contrary to his own. Altogether the country justified in entertaining the belief that Mir Lansing was dissatisfied with the treaty That impression further strengthened by a later address by Mir Lansing before the American Bar As sociation the subject of mandataries, concerning which MT. Bulitt read before the senate committee that he (Mr Lansng) absolutely opposed to the United States taking mandate either in Armenia or Constantinople" The country prepared for this disclosure by what Mir Lansing had told the Amer ican Bar Association:
 "The system of mandataries under the league of nations provided in the covenant which to the casual observer appears simple in principle and ap plication, is novelty in political authority which the it is studied from the legal standpoint the greater the number of problems it presents"
 Here Mir. Lansing gave than an impression of his skepticsn, and here is admission of null plicty of problems which increase in number as the subject of mandataries "is studied" Yet now. MT. Lansing after of serious thought cudgeling his brains for a way out of the predicament into which he has been placed by MT. Bult advises that study" be suspended the end that problems be not found Therefore, advises Mir Lansing, the treaty should be ratified without delay" Not word though from him with reference to the Bulitt statement
 Mr. Lansing has been treated with the greatest consideration for a week. Senators opposed to the treaty or those who favor it's less radical amendment have hardly commented upon the Bullitt disclosures. The newspapers which have done so have merely indulged in conjecture to what the secretary might have to say in reply.
 He has said nothing to the main question his opinion of the treaty at the time Mir. Bullitt took his notes Nor is there word to the pro- cess by which he has to be of different mind since he left Paris, since he appeared before the senate committee, or since he addressed the Amri- can Bar Association
 Mir Lansing's week of fishing has produced noth- ing not even a sucker. It water haul"