The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-25
Teuton Delegation to Con-
sist of Twenty-Haim-
hausen Quits.
Is REGIMENTS READY
Wilson to Attach Seal of
United States in Behalf
of Government.
LANSING TO STAY ON JOB
Much Ill Feeling Developed
by Peculiar Status of
Col. House.
LANSING TO STAY ON JOB
BY LAURENCE HILLS.
Sfd6 Correspondent OF TIE SuS.

Stat Correspondent OF The SuS.
Copyriohtj 1919: all rights reserved.
PARIS. June 24.-Germany will send
a special delegation to Versailles to
sign the treaty Of peace with the al
lied and associated Powers The del
egation. numbering probably twenty In
all, will be headed by Herman Muel-
ler, the new German Foreign Secre-
tary, and upon him will devolve the
task of signing the treaty in behalf
Of the new German Government.
The German delegation, according to
present Indications. should reach Ver-
sailles not later than Thursday morn
Ing, but French inslstence on pune
tilious formalities may hold up the
ceremony Of signing the treaty at
Versailles until Saturday, the prepa-
rations requiring much time.
Not even the political exigencies Of
President Wilson can deter the
French from carrying out their plans.
The new German delegates must have
their credentials examined by the al
lied: committee, n matter of much for
mality In itself. Fifteen regiments
are to 60 to Versailles for the cere-
mony and the delegates are to be
escorted back in triumph to Paris as
the occasion for another fete.
The question Of President Wilson's
seal was solved to-day when he sent
the seal Of the United States to the
French Foreign Office to be affixed
beside his signature.
Lansing to Remain.
With the departure of President
Wilson and Col. f. NJ. House after
the signing Of the treaty the American
delegation here will be resolved into
three headed commission, and in
the work for the next two months
VIII proceed along the regular lines
followed by the present Peace Com
mission. Secretary Lansing will be
the head of this body, but other mem.
oers will have virtually equal powers.
The virtual retirement of Col.
House has caused much surprise here.
lie Is out of all future peace work,
but VIII remain in secluslon in Eng
land until the American Senate an
proves or disapproves the treaty.
Questions of Importance to the United
States and to the world still remain
to be settled here, but it is not saving
too much to state that the elimination
OF Col. House. whether of his own
choice or not, will relieve n situation
which threatened to become en-
barmssIng.
1t is betraying no secret to say that
some members Of the commission haya
felt sighted and embarrassed In the
last six months by the peculiar status
OF Col. House, which is unprecedented
in European diplomacy.
While nominally next in rank to tbe
President in the delegation, and al.
ways sitting In that position In pub
lie sessions, Secretary Lansing has
been completely overshadowed, as
have the other members, by Col.
House, who maintained practically u
separate establishment on the upper
floor OF the Hotel Crillon, the Amerl.
can headquarters, in which virtually
all negotiations were conducted, re-
garding which the other members of
the delegation in many cases knew
little or nothing.
Lansing Embarrassed.
To Americans cognizant of Col.
Houses relations with the President
this was not surprising, but as it is
entirely unprecedented in diplomatic
practice 1t has been extremely embar-
RAISING to Secretary Lansing and 9th
ers theoretically although not actu-
ally holding equal rank with House.
This situation at one time threat
ened to have very unpleasant conse-
quences, but the danger of that Is now
past From surface indications 1t ap-
pears that the President suddenly
became aware of the way things were
drifting and began to seek the advice
of Secretary Lansing, while Col.
House retired a bit more into the
background.
1t appears now that Secretary
Lansing will sit at the end of the
cable between the White House In
Washington and Paris, and the pecu-
liar status OF Col. House In Europe
will come to an end, except for the
duty of keeping within reach of Lord
Rnhnrt Cecil In I.nnInn ufln H.