Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-14
ENC AND WILSON
 I1r'F TT. FORMER GIVES 'ii IIp sECRETARYSHlP
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 to the progress his advis7
 .a ., making toward settlement
 gre nsr ntroversv. He finally took
 stter out of the ,t eab'net's ,,,h;oh naHos
 Sv Snsvgested a settlement ~h'c"
 nlne,y lnoer,ryeenondence between the coitd srd MT. Lansing which re-
 e'r ;n Nr. Lansne's restoration
 aa in nnhlic tonight at the state lsu, .aart Ian an hour after Under Sec
 n,p" pn,r had conferred at the ,1."so rv with Secretary Tumulty.
 lansing, nur in his final letter to
 .l.;aent' naa said that Gin thus sev-
 es," esr official association" he felt
 o oui isbouldAmake public a state
 ne ne I" had prepared recently show
 ,at nt he had "not been unmindful
 4he 'hs continuance of our present
 .ns ens was impossible" and that
 s'b his duty to bring them to an
 sot the earliest moment compat-
 B,;th the nublic interest"
 Felt Disappointment.
 ,er since January 1919," MT.
 Eng no continued q have been con
 2 If the fact that you no longer
 Idisposed' to welcome my advice
 alters pertaining to the negotia-
 M at Paris. to our foreign serv-
 br to internal affairs in general" |"
 added that had he followed his mai inclination he would have [ned while in Paris. but that he
 refrained because he felt it his
 flo "cause you no embarrass-
 in carrying forward the great
 in which you were then engag- tain MT. Lansing said that while lad been Surprised and disap- tedo at the frequent disapproval is suggestions, he had never fail o follow the presidents sugges- $ and decisions However, diff
 it made the conduct of our for affairs"
 f. Lansing accompanied the pres kt to Paris in December, 1918, as of the American peace delegates, his friends have said that while Wilson was at the peace confer MT. Lansing was virtually with authority and that naturally he this keenly since the other allied associated countries were repre- |ted by their premiers and not heads of their government.
 fr. Lansing finally returned from lis before the work of the Amer h peace delegation was concluded, |ng succeeded by MT. Frank L. lk. under secretary of state. The ttion between himself and MT. Will continued after he came back to Ishingt0n.
 Overrides Him.
 During the presidents illness the xican issue again came to the front h tile Kidnapping and subsequent est of American consular agent lkins in Mexico. After the Jenkins e had been discussed at cabinet etings presided over by MT. Lan- 2, the state department sent a note Carranza bluntly warning him that ther 'lnolestation" of Jenkins, id seriously affect the relations Eeen the United States and Mex Flor which the government of Mex must assume sole responsibility" resident Wilson was advised of a latlon which apparently had grown te and he was said at the time to e personally taken charge of the ter. The Mexican government de- ld its reply some time and subse- ntly Jenkins was released on bail nlshed by J. Salter Hansen, with . the consular agents knowledge. pkins' case still is pending in the 'lcan courts, having been trans ed from the Puebla state courts me federal supreme court, which state department had contended the only tribunal which had jur- ctlon in this case. No further ac- has been taken by the American ernment so far as been announc- nile few members of the cabi- nave conferred with MT. Wilson e he was taken i'll, it was said to- IL that MT. Lansing had not seen and that whatever business he had with the president had been ied by daily correspondence. e1ore the president left on his tern trip, however, MT. Lansing, T s. ms return from Paris, had a dlng engagement to see him daily ne visited the White House each ! to discuss foreign and other af- ne state department issued the owing statement:
 secretary Lansing has resigned ms resignation has been accept IaKing effect today. Following me correspondence between the
 anu secretary Lansing.
 Asks Explanation.
 The White House, Washington. ebruary, 1920.
 wy Dear MT. Secretary:
 s W true, as I have been told. 1, curing my illness you have fre- atiy called the heads of the exec departments of the government conference? If it is. I feel it anty to call your attention to ,' which I do not care to IL, !. upon until learn from you 'selI that this is the fact. Un- our constitutional law and prac- +s as developed hitherto, no one \. sae president has the right to 'mon the heads of the executive 'lh.ments h.a into conference, and no ,s " the president and the con 's 'sa mas q: the right to ask their views ne n,A,.s views of any one of them on ,,sa .ake this matter up with you, use. sase, in the development of every sslasutlonal saaa system, custom and sedent are of the most serious se and think we will all n, m 'a a desiring not to lead in any Hs direction VI "S