Bisbee daily review., 1920-11-16
BELG|hN WILL
 BE PERMANENT
 LEAGUE LEADER
French Delegates Clearly Op- posed to Admission of Aus
 tria, Bulgaria and Albania

GENEVA. Nov. 15.-Paul Hymans. of Belgium. was elected permanent president of the league of nations at the opening session of the leagues assembly here today He received 35 votes to four votes for President Motta of Switzerland and one each for Ex-President Ador of Switzer- land. and Leon Bourgeois. of France.
 M. Hymans had called the dele gates to order and introduced Presi- dent Motta of Switzerland, who in his address welcoming the delegates expressed the hope that the United States would net defer much longer in taking it's legitimate place in the league
 When NJ. Hymans. who heads the Belgian delegation and is former foreign minister of Belgium, declsr- ed the first session of the assembly open. the hall was crowded with men and women and there were several women among the delegates. Their tailettes. with the quaint red and vel lew gowns of the Swiss guards, gave touches of color to an otherwise so- Der scene.
 NJ. Motta, in his greetings to the delegates. thanked the peace confer ence for having selected Geneva as the seat of the league of nations and also thanked President Wilson for calling the meeting of the assembly in the seat of the league.
 The first session of the league as sembly was greeted with the ringing of all the bells in Geneva after sev- eral minutes silence on the part of all the people of the canton. Presi- dent Motta, of Switzerland, was fol- lowed by M. Hymans.
 The Socialist leader. Hjalmar Granting, head of the Swedish dele gation. provoked the first debate by objecting to the election of Paul Fly exclamation. M. Hymans himself decided the question. by holding that since one member requested a sec ret vote, he was entitled to it.
 A more animated and more signi- ficant discussion grew out of the adoption of the agenda. Lord Rob ert Cecil, who represents South Ar rica, held that the applications for membership of Albania, Bulgaria and Austria which were received since the agenda was made up. should be added to it. The assembly so decid- ed after the French delegates, Vivi- ani and Bourgeois, had made it clear that the applications would be re- ferred to a committee to be exanl- ined and a decision taken as to whether they would be received.
 This reservation. it is contended, will establish a precedent sc that if Germany's application is received later, the French delegates will be able to raise the question of eligibil- ity at once.
 Working organization of the as- sembly was formed this afternoon and consists of six committees each with 41 members representing all the state attending.
 All questions on the agenda will be divided among these committees and will come up for debate on the floor only when the reports are sub. mitted. The presidents of these committees will be ex-officio vice presidents of the assembly.
 The debates today clearly indicat ed that Lord Robert Cecil. Leon Bourgeois. Rene Viviani and Signor Tittoni are likely to become leading figures on the floor and that the small states are showing a spirit of independence and will not accept pre-arranged programmes without having their way.