Bisbee daily review., 1920-02-15
MAY MAKE POLK
 NEW SECRETARY
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CT Vice President Marshall ought tC
 be called upon to take over the duties of the presidency. While it is knowr that the subject never came up. actu
 ally, at meeting of the cabinet off
 cers, it is also known that it was dis cussed privately and some of the re
 ports which were taken to the presi dent included Secretary Lansing's name among those who were discuss ing that probability. How much this part of the incident had to do with the outcome can only be left to specu- lation
 Mir Lansing was not at the depart. ment today. and, it was understood, was preparing to go to his home in Watertown, \. r., Tor a vacation and a rest
 The presidents friends made the occasion one to observe that the presi- dents action, like his conferences with Senators Fall and Hitchcock on the Mexican situation several weeks ago, served to emphasize that while he may be i'll physically, he is in full possession of all his mental faculties
 To the senate, whose struggle with
 
 insight into the condition of foreign affairs, the revelation of President Wilson's disagreement with ms sec retary of state caused less Surprise than did the time and manner of the 1lnal break between them. Privately. many Democratic senators expressed regret that the resignation came just on the eve of another effort to ratify the treaty.
 Senator Norris, Republican, Hepras- ka, one of the "irrecOn cilables," said. Tn statement, the secretary's resig- nation showed that the uIeutsI ex- pert that has been employed at the white House had been discharged too soon.
 Throughout the treaty controversy the tendency of the Republicans has been to eXculpate Mir Lansing from any blame that may have attached to the peace negotiations, and when the secretary appeared before the foreign relations committee last summer there was said to be a general under, standing among Republican members that he was not to be cross-examined or put Tn an embarrassing position over question about which he indi- cated that he was permitted py the president tc know nothing.
 T apprehend that neither the presi- uent nor MT. Lansing, if they were free to speak, would deny that it was MT Lansing's dissatisfaction with tbe treaty and his prOnouncet- conqemna- ton of 1t which had most to do with bringing about his resignation. Sen. ator Borah, Republican, Idaho. an other 'lrreconcilable" saIu i'll E srate ment. Never in the history of the world has there been a treaty so ran. idly d1sapproved either by those who had to do with creating it or oy those who had to do with passing judgment upon the ones who wrote 1T 1" he added. "Bullitt, emissary to Lenine and Trotzky resigned. Lansing has resigned. Clemenceau has retired
 Orlando has retired. Lloyd George mas stated that he expects 10 eo next" 'o so
 representative Mason, Republican Illinois. introduced q resolution to nave the house foreign affairs rom. mlttee investigate this tempest i'm a teapot between the ex-secretarv .of state and the president of the United states. It went into the bopner without speeches or deba1e
 Ihe only comment in the housa m, i MT. Lansing's resignation was made Dy representative Rogers. Republican l MdsSachusetts, who inserted the Wu. 1 son-Lansing correspondence m inc | record after some opposition. He said | the only reason he could see for oh. ! Jectlon by Democrats was their beIiei | thst the letters were "so discredirablc | to the administration that they did not want the country to sec them"
 representative Mott Republican. ! New York, introduced d resolution | asking that congress dIsapprove of | me attitude of the president toward | NIT: Lansing, and to express it's regre1 at ms retirement and the feeling that ne had "ln no respect lacked proper regard Tor and loyalty to the presi- dent
 Says Wilson Knew
 NEW YORK, Feb. 14.-The cabinet meetings called by Secretary Lansing II were necessary if the nations busi- I| ness was to proceed regularly" form II CT Secretary Of Commerce William (. Il Redfield declared in a statement to- II night, in which he expressed the be- Ilet that other causes than the call. II nus ol Ine caOlnet sessions by Mir II Lansing lay behind the presidents re. quest for his resignation"
 The request for Secretary Laa. sings resignation was great surprise and shock to me-" said MT. Redfield II who was member of President Will II sons cabinet until November 1. last | 'l was present at the first meeting of the cabinet under MT. Lansing. The members sent word to NIT. Wilson Dr. Grayson that they were meeting and expressed hope that the president would have a speedy recoy- cry. Admiral Grayson brought back m inquiry from MT. Wilson as to what business was on hand, and the cabinet members replied that they had met in conference to determine therr oury in View of his disability. m No word of disapproval of our