Arizona republican., 1920-02-16
WILSON DENIES
 CABINET CRISIS
 T0bEEXPECTED
Lansing's Resignation Only One Likely at This Time He Announces Congress May Define What Consti- tutues Disability of the President
Republican A. p. Leased wreJ

WASHINGTON, Feb 15.-Secretary Lansing's enforced resignation con tinues to hold the attention of official Washington and all the talk among politicians, members of congress and government officials continues to cen ter about it. Gossip as to the probable successor to the former secretary Of state is even subordinated to discus sion of the sensational climax to the strained relations between President Wilson and the former secretary of state, which are now known to have been in existence more than year.
 Such terms as a crisis in the cabi- net are freely used. and in a sense find color in the frank acknowledgement of Secretary Lane that he was equally re- sponsible for the meetings to which the president objected but the best i'm formation indicates there is no crisis, in the sense that more secretaries are likely to resign; in fact, it has been stated at the White House that no more resignations are expected as a result of the incident
 May Ask New Law
 Opinion in congress continues di- viGed with opponents of the peace treaty supporting Mir. Lansing's posi- tion and talking of some action to de- termine how the executive business of tnt 6Ofctltintilt IS btDlS COUQuCIto during President Wilson's illness. There is even cloak room talk of some sCrt of legislation to define specifically what constitutes disability of the president more clearly than is provided iE the constitution.
 So far it is all in the realm of talk: no member of congress has brought brought forward any proposal for leg iSlation. The chief discussion seems to range aboNt whether President Wilson knew of the cabinet meetings which have been going on for three months until he wrote his letter asking for MT. Lansing's resignati ton. Probably no one but the president himself and three or four persons most closely around him can answer such question specifically, but it is being pointed out in discussion of the incident that re- ports of the cabinet meetings have been printed regularly in the news papers; that it has been stated at the White House that the president reads the papers every day, and that in some instances. at least. official action, which the president took on some sub 1 jects, was after those subjects had been discussed at the ca binet confer 1 ences.
 Lansing Secluded Self
 Persons who are well informed Of what has been going on in the inside | of the administration hold to their be- lief that the cabinet meetings were only an incident and that President l Wilson himself, in one of his letters to MT. Lasing, referred to other and more 1 important reasons when he wrote that l the cabinet meeting incident only 1 feeling he had had for l some time and that for some months | he had found the secretary Of state l yielding to his decisions with more and l more reluctance.
 The affair is expected to come up in l congress again probably tomorrow. MT. | Lansing meanwhile has denied himself | to all callers. It is understood he may spend a short vacation in Florida be- | fore going to his home in Watertown, | x. Y.
 Baker May Get Post
 Speculation as to Mir. Lansings s 1 successor continued to involve the | names of Frank l.. Polk, who yester- | day became secretary ad interim by | virtue of his>office as counselor of 1 the state department: Secretary of l War Baker, John w. Davis, now ann | bassador to Great Britain, and Hugh 1 .. Wallace ambassador to France.
 Official intimation was given to- | night that Mir. Lansings successor 1 might be appointed before the end of | the week even though it was said | there was mo hurry about it." as MT. i Polk can serve as secretary ad interim | for period of 30 days.
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