The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14

the President under date of yester- day, and had continued since that time-one of the chief differences be- ing over the government toward Mexico.
 TUMULTY'S STATEMENT
 When the cabinet met on october 3, Joseph P Humility. private secre- tary to the President, issued a formal statement explaining the reasons for the conference. He said:
 The cabinet was called to consider questions in which more than one de- partment was concerned and also to discuss the industrial conference"
 He referred to the first conference called by the President with the hope of anaying the industrial unrest.
 In his statement, MT. Tumulty said that Rear Admiral Grayson, MT. Will sons physician, was present and "sug- gested that only urgent matters be brought to" the Presidents attention
 Thereafter. until this week the cab met met more or less regularly. During the coal strike it met twice week in an effort to avert the walkout of the miners and several weeks ago it was decided to nave meetings every Tuesday and Friday WILSON TOOK CHARGE
 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 his advisors were making toward a settlement of the controversy. He finally took the matter out of the cabinets hands and suggested settlement which the miners accepted.
 The correspondence between the President and Mir 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.
 MT Lansing, in his final letter to the President, said that Tin thus sever ing our official association he felt that he should make public state ment he had prepared recently show ing that he had mot been unmindful that the continuance of our present relations was impossible" and that it was his duty to bring them to an end
 sat the earliest moment compatible with the public interest"
 CONSCIOUS OF STRAIN
 "rver since January, 1919,' MT. Lansing continued, T nave been con scious of the fact that you no longer were disposed to welcome my advice in matters pertaining to the negotia- tions at Paris. to our foreign service, or to international affairs in general" He added that had he followed his personal inclination he would have re- signed while in Paris, but that he had refrained because he felt it his duty to cause no embarrassment in carry ing forward the great task in which you Were then engaged
 l Again MT. Lansing said that while he | had been Surprised and disappointed" at 1 the frequent disapproval of his sugges- tions, he had never failed to follow the | Presidents decisions However difficult | it made the conduct of our foreign af- | fairs"
 | MT. Lansing accompanied the President
 to Paris in December. 1918, as one of the American peace delegates, but his friends | have said that while Mr Wilson was al
 the peace conference MT Lansing was virtually without authority and that nat
 urally he felt this keenly, since the other allied and associated countries were rep. 1 resented by their premiers and not the heads of their governments.
 1 SUCCEEDED BY POLK Mir. Lansing finally returned iron Paris before the work of the American
 peace delegation was concluded, beins
 succeeded by Frank L. Polk, under sec retary Of state. The friction between him self and Mir Wilson continued after Ii I
 l During the Presidents illness the Mexi can issue again came to the front witt the Kidnapping and subsequent arrest 0 lAmerican Consular Agent Jenkins il Mexico. After the Jenkins ease had beer discussed at cabinet meetings presided over by Mir. Lansing, the state depart 1 ment sent a note to fCarranza bluntl' warning him that further "molestaton' of Jenkins would seriously affect the re
 lations between the United states am l Mexico, for which the government o Mexico must assume sole responsibility.
 President Wilson was advised of situ
 alton which apparently had grown acut'
 and he was said al the time to have per Isonaly taken charge of the matter, Tn l Mexican government delayed it's repl!
 for some time and subsequently, Jenkins was released on bail furnished by J l Salter Hansen without the consula agents knowledge 'enkins' case still i pending in the Mexican courts havine been transferred from the Peubla stat' | courts to the federal supreme court which the state department had contend ed was the only tribunal which had juris diction in the case. No further action has
 been taken by the American governmen'
 so far as had been announced.
 l While few members of the cabinet | have conferred with MT Wilson since he
 was taken ill., it was said tonight that /, MT Lansing had not seen him and that whatever business he had had with the l President had been carried on by daily 1 correspondence
 Before the President left on his western 1 trip, however, MT. Lansing, after his re- turn from Paris, had 8 standing engage nent to see him daily and he visited the White House each noon to discuss for faf