Bisbee daily review., 1920-02-14
LANSING LEAVES GARNET IN
 REQUEST IF THE PRESIDENT
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"The cabinet was called to consiI. CT questions in which more than one department was concerned and alse to discuss the industrial conference" He referred to the first conference called by the president with the hope of allaying the industrial unrest.
 In his statement MT Humility said that Rear Admiral -Grayson, MT. VII sons physiciana was present and suggested that only urgent matters be brought to" the presidents atten- tion.
 Thereafter until this week the cabi- net met more or less regularly. Dur, ing the coal strike it met twice a week in an effort to avert the walk out of the miners and several weeks ago it was decided to. have meetings every Tuesday and Friday.
 During the coal wage controversy the president was said at the White House to have been advised of the meetings and to have been kept in formed as to the progress of his ad- visers were making toward a settle ment of the controversy. He finally took the matter out of the cabinets hands and suggested a settlement which the miners accepted.
 Polk Succeeds.
 Frank l.. Polk, under secretary Of state, will be made secretary ad in- terim tomorrow to. act until Presi- dents Wilson appoints successor 10 Robert Lansing. This is believed 10 be in the very near future.
 Several names were. suggested 70.
 ;,tr 1tr officials frankly admitted that they had no definite information as 10 who the president had in mind for the place.
 Chief among those suggested vas Mir. Polk, but his friends say that he will not accept the appointment II or fered him because of the state Of ms health. In fact. he has long had 1t in mind to resign form the state oe partment and take a long rest, course which his physicians have UT gently advised.
 The correspondence between the president and MT. Lansing which re- suited in MT. Lansing's resignation was made public tonight at the state department an hour after Under Sec retary Polk had conferred at the White House with Secretary Tumulty
 Mir. Lansing, in his final letter to the president, said that "in thus sew ering our official association he felt that he should make public state ment he had prepared recently show ing that he had mot been unmlndtul that the continuance of our present relations was impossible" and that 1t was his duty to bring them to an end lat the earliest moment compatible with the public interest"
 "Ever since January 191e," MT. Lan- sing continued. ''I have been con scious of the fact that you no longer were disposed to welcome my advice in matters pertaining 10 the negotla- tions at Paris, to our foreign service. or to international affairs in gen. eral."
 He added that had he followed his personal inclination he would have resigned while in Paris, but that he had refrained because he felt 1t his duty to "cause you no embarrassment in carrying forward the great task in which you were then engaged"
 Again, Mir. Lansing said that
 while he had been "surprised and
 disappointed" at the frequent dis
 approval of his suggestions, he
 had never failed to follow the
 presidents decisions, "however
 difficult it made the conduct of our foreign affairs"
 MT. Lansing accompanied the preSi; dent to Paris in December, 1918. as one of the American peace delegates. but his, friends have said that while MT. Wilson was at the peace confer ence MT. Lansing was virtually, with out authority and that naturally he felt this keenly, since the other allied and associated countries were repre- sented by their premiers and not the heads of their governments.
 MT Lansing finally returned from Paris before the work of the Ameri- can peace delegation was concluded, being succeeded by Frank l.. Polk. un der secretary of state. The friction between himself and MT. Wilson con tinued after he came back to Wash ington.
 The Jenkins Case
 During the presidents illness. the Mexican issue again came to the front with the Kidnapping and subse quent arrest of American consular agnt Jenkins in Mexico. After the Jenkins case had been discussed at cabinet meetings presided over by MT. Lansing. the state department senate a note to CarranZa bluntly warning him that further "molesta tion" would seriously affect the rela- tions between the United States and Mexico. for which the government Of Mexico must assume sole responsi. bility"
 President Wilson was advised of a situation which apparently had grown acute and he was said at the time to have personally taken charge of the matter. The Mexican government de- layed it's reply for some time and subsequently, Jenkins was released on bail furnished by J. Salter Hensen. without the consular agents knowl- edge. The Jenkins case still is pen0 ing in the Mexican courts. havin6 been transferred from the Puebla state court to the federal supreme court, which the state department had contended was the only tribunal u-b;cb h.d jurisdiction in thp CaEp Ntt