The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-14
President Demanded
 Lansing's Resignation
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" ASA IdASlilSs W0HI do cl 1AAOAAA Der of the American delegation to Paris more differences developed. With other members of the Am erican mission, he was not fn accord with the Presidents idea of making the treaty of peace and the covenent of the League of Nations one and the same inseparajble document. It was MT. Lansing's idea that such g. plan would delay the ratification of a peace treaty, and in this he was sup- ported by Henry White and E. M. House.
 It may be said with great degree of authority that while the President and MT. Lansing were together in Paris other differences of more than minor nature developed, and this 4 confirmed by the reference which the President makes to it in one of his letters.
 When President Wilson went back to Paris last March and found that during his brief absence in the United States MT Lansing and the others of the American mission had agreed, tentatively at least, to have the peace terms ani1 the League of Nations cov- enant separated, the situation came very near to breaking point and probably was avoided only because the President thought 1t more impof- tant not to let European statesmen see split in the American peace dele- gation. While MT. Lansing probably saw and conferred with the President in Paris as much as any other mem bers of the American mission, It was a matter of remark that he saw him very little.
 However, the incident which came nearer causing a break that any other was the sensational testimony of William c. Bullitt, one of the ex- perts attached to the American peace mission, before the senate foreign re- lations committe. Bul1itt, as will be recalled, reading from a diary, quot ed Secretary Lansing as having told him he was out of sympathy with the League of Nations covenant and as predicting that the treaty would fail if the American people ever learned of its full import.
 MT. Lansing, obviously in very difficult position, did not repud1ate Rullitt's statements, although it was momentariIy expected in Washington that he either would repudiate them or resign his office. President Will son was at the time on his speaking tour in the West. To say that he was upset by Bullitts story and his quotations of the secretary of state puts it mildly. Officials in the pres idential party who knew the work ings of the Presidents mind expect ed to see the secretary'S resignation asked for when the president return ed to Washington. These same offl- ciaIs believe now that the breakdown which sent the president home very sick man was the only thing which prevented it.
 MT Lansing, however, never saw the president again, and did all his business with the chief executive III writing The relations between the men remained very much strained and then MT. Lansing's action in call ing the cabinet together brought them to the breaking point
 Those who were present at the hrs' cabinet meeting describe a rather tense and dramatic scene. Congress was full of rumors that the president was so disabled as to be constitution ally unable to discharge the functions of his office There was talk of what might be done to place Vice President Marshall at the head of the govern ment and how Congress might gc about doing it. Nobody knew the full extent of the presidents illness. Il had not then become known that he had partly lost the usa of his left arm and leg through an accumulation o1 blood in one of the arteries in his brain. There were even ugly rumors that the president might not be IT Dossession of all his faculties Some Senators were even contemplat1ne some action to find out whether we have a president or not" as one oi their number put it. These ugly stories were of course all disposed o1 and shown to be unfoundeii gossip by the later eve1opmentds, but they were being circulated and widely credited last November when the cabinet as sembled for its first conference at the call of Secretary Lansing.
 The secretary of state, it should be stated, believed he was supported by precedent in calling the cabinet to- gether-
 Looking up the historical record, lht found it had been done when Presi dent Garfield lay i'll for weeks aftel hvaing been shot by an assassin ant that it had been done before tha when President Taylor had long i'll ness anil ultimately succeeded by N1ct President Fillmore
 The Wilson cabinet assembled thu first day with a feeling of apJf chen sion for none of the members KneV the extent of the Presidents illness bat expected to be informed of it Secretary Tumulty had informed tn President that MT. Lansing had callet the cabinet together, and the Pres1 dent, somewhat disturbed, gave hi personal physician a message to de liver to the secretaries.
 The secretaries assembled at thei usual places that day and NIT. Ian sing sent for Dr. Grayson. The Pres ident's chair at the head of the tabl WAS left vacant until the physician ar rived and he was asked to occupy i
 ''Dr. Grayson,' Secretary Lansing reported by those who were presen to have said, Eve wish to know tn nature and extent of the President illness and whether he is able to per form the duties of his office so tha we may determine what shall be don to carry on the business Of the gov ernment-
 The Presidents physician is quote by some of the other secretaries a having replied in substances:
 The President is doing as well a could be expected; he is in full pos session of all his faculties, and he ha directed me to inquire of you by whs