Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-31
Personal Adviser to President
Breaks Off All Relations
With White House Executive
Due to Continuous Sights.
IRELAND AND FIUME
MAIN POINTS OF ISSUE
Colonel Had Promised to Use
His Influence With President
To Gain Recognition Of Irish
Republic, But Was Rebuffed.

New York, Dec. '30.-Col Edward
NJ. House, long known as President
Wilson's personal adviser. has
broken all personal and advisory re-.
lations with the president It was
asserted by a political leader who
said he had talked with Colonel
House today. The leader said also
that Colonel House will decline to
support either President Wilson or
anyone whom the latter NAV name
as the democratic nominee for the
presidency; that at present the col
onel is disposed to give his support
to Senator Oscar Underwood or
some other conserva i've democrat
for the presidency. and that Colonel
House is bending every effort to
have Senator Underwood unhorse
Senator Hitchcock as minority SEN
ate leader.
The political leader, who declined
to have his name used. said:
Having squeezed out of Colonel
House all the political and other ia
vors he possibly could during the
past seven years. Wilson apparentiv
has concluded to toss him aside. as
he did lanes Smith Of New Jerey.
and William F. McCombs of New
York"
Asked the immediate cause OF the.
break between the president and
Colonel House, the leader said:
Ireland and Fiume.
Freedom for Ireland and the
restoration of Fiume to Italy.
"Soon after Colonel House he
came a member Of the American
peace commission to Paris he made
two promises. One was to Frank
P. Walsh, Daniel F. Cohatan and
John w. Golf that the president
would use all his influence to get
from Lloyd George and other Brit
lsh statesmen recognition of the
Irish republic Another was to Pre-
mier Orlando of Italy that Presi-
dent Wilson would aid in giving
Fiume back to Italy.
Throughout the peace negotia-
tions, Colonel House kept at the
president to fulfill these pledges.
The more he did sn the more
strained their relations. became.
After the president, on his re
turn from Paris year or more ago
deliberately snubbed Justice Coha.
Ian at the Metropolitan opera house
the colonel was enraged. When the
president returned to Paris the, col.
onel chided him for it.
Wilson Resentful.
''This the president resented. PRO
testing. 7 shall handle this In my
own way
From that hour. or from the
sl,our when the president proclaimed
that Fiume should not be returned
to Italy, Wilson and House were
hardly on speaking terms.
r When. early in 1919, the presi-
dent finally returned from Paris, he
announced that he had appointed
Colonel House his personal repre-
sentative to formulate the orpaniza.
ton of the lea\ue of nations, oi
which Wilson Hoped to be presi-
dent.
Instead of keeping House at his
post i'll Paris, Wilson shunted him
TO london and, practically sup
planted House at Paris with AS
sistant Secretary, Of State Polk.
Colonel House. is very seusi-5
tive man. He had been hypuotized
by Wilson's 'intellectuaiity. as had
many other admirers, and worked
tor seven years. to make Wilson'S
administration a brilliant one. He
had made many sacrifices-personal,
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