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FRIDAY EVENING, * HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 11, 1916.
QUITS BECAUSE ARMY
PLAN IS OPPOSED
[Continued From First Page.]
HENRY C. BRECKENRIDGE.
adwvocacy and was still trying to get !
Congress to adopt it.
The President, his friends said. j
worked with Congressional leaders on
the currency, tariff and other hills,
and through making some cessions,
was able to get bills which he finally j
approved. He still feels that it is best j
to pursue the same policy in dealing j
with the army and Philippine ques- j
tions.
Technically the war department to- j
day was without a head, although j
Major General Hugh Scott, chief of j
staff of the army was ranging officer.!
Will Not Delay Congress
Under an existing executive order, |
General Scott, in the temporary ah- 1
sence or illness of the Secretary the;
Assistant Secretary would become act- j
ing secretary. The judge advocate I
general to-day decided that neither |
Mr. Garrison nor Mr. Breckenridge!
were "temporarily" absent, and i
therefore the order was without ecect. !
A new executive order designating
General Scott as secretary ad interim
was immediately drawn up. The or-J
der authorizes General Scott to per
form the duties of Secretary of War
for a period not to exceed thirty days
"until a Secretary of War shall have
been appointed and shall have quali
fied.
"Congress will proceed to comple
tion 01' a military program without re
gard tothe resignation of Secretary
Garrison," said Chairman Chamber
lain, of the Senate Military Affairs
Committee to-day after a meeting of
the committee. "The resignation will
have 110 effect one way or the other
upon the military committees of the
Senate or the House. Personally I
very much regret his resignation. Mr.
Garrison was a forceful man and one
of positive views which he was not
afraid to stand by. Unfortunately his
continental army plan was not popu
lar in the military committees of Con
gress, or did it. meet with the views
of a majority of the members in the
Senate and the House."
The Senate committee decided to
begin next Monday the work of fram
ing the army reorganization bill.
Dindley M. Garrison, Secretary of
War, was regarded as the ablest and
strongest of the advisers of the admin
istration.
< >fficlal Washington was amazed
when the announcement was made
that Mr. Garrison had resigned. Twice
before it had become known that Mr.
Garrison was on the verge of resign
ing. Major-General Scott, chief of
staff of the army, automatically be
comes Secretary of War ad interim.
Since six months ago, when Presi
dent Wilson reversed himself on his
preparedness program, newspapers
published the fact that Mr. Garrison
had previously threatened to resign if
he were not supported. An official
denial was issued at the White House
that Mr. Garrison had ever had any
intention of leaving the Cabinet. The
Text of Resignation
and Its Acceptance
War Department,
Washington, Feb. 10. 1916.
My Dear Mr. President:
I am just in receipt of yours of !
February 10, in reply to mine of j
February 9. It is evident that we j
hopelessly disagree upon what X
conceive to be fundamental prin
ciples. This makes manifest the
impropriety of my longer remain- j
ing your seeming representative |
with respect to these matters.
1 hereby tender my resignation
as Secretary of War, to take effect !
at your convenience.
Sincerely yours,
LINDL.EY M. GARRISON".
The President.
The White House,
Washington, Feb. 10, 1916.
My Dear Mr. Secretary:
I must confess to feeling a very I
great surprise at your letter of to
day. offering your resignation as j
Secretary of War. There has been \
no definite action taken yet in either I
of the matters to which your letter
of yesterday referred. The whole
matter is under debate and all the j
Influences that work for clarity and
judgment ought to be available at
tliis very time.
But since you have felt obliged
to take this action, and since it is
evident that your feeling* in the j
matter >s very great indeed, I feel 1
that X would be only imposing a j
burden upon you shorld I urge you
to retain the secretaryship of war
while I am endeavoring to find a I
successor. I ought to relieve you
at once, and do hereby accept your |
resignation, because it is so evi
dently your desire that I should [
do so.
I cannot take this Important step, |
however, without expressing to you
my very warm appreciation of the j
distinguished service you have ren
dered as Secretary of War, and I
am sure that in expressing this ap- j
preciation I am only putting into i
words the Judgment of our fellow
citizens far and wide.
With sincere regret at the action !
you have felt constrained to take.
Sincerely yours,
WOODROW WILSON.
Hon. Ivindley M. Garrison,
Secretary of War.
«■
resignation announced last night, how-
I ever, was the culmination of a strained
j situation which has existed for nearly
i a year, or ever since Mr. Garrison
formulated his program for the expan
j sion of the army.
Garrison Slates Position
Following: an interview between the
President and Mr. Garrison on the
| army plans the Secretary wrote the
; President, specifically stating his po
j sitton. The President informed him
j that Mr. Hay had told him a federal
j volunteer system could not be obtained
and that the same end could be
j achieved by utilizing the State troops
and making appropriations to pay to
i the States on condition that the fed
eral government control the militia.
Mr. Garrison then replied that the
I continental army plan absolutely dis
i carded a military system based upon
State troops and that the two systems
were diametrically opposed to each
j other and are irreconcilable. "We are
I challenged," he wrote, "by the exist
! ins situation to declare ourselves
! promptly, openly and unequivocally or
I be charged properly with lack of sin
| cerity and good faith." He added that
I since Mr. Wilson's word was llnal, he
j did not wish to cause any embarrass-
I ment and would withdraw if it would
| relieve the situation.
I The President wrote in reply that he
I and the Secretary agreed that the chief
! thing necessary for the army was "that
1 we should have a trained citizen re
i serve and that the training, organ
ization and control of that reserve
; should be under immediate federal
direction." He declined, however, to
j take an irrevocable stand on the
! ground that it would not be proper for
\ him to say to a committee of Congress
! that it would have to take his plan or
I none. He declared he did not believe
! members of the House dealing with
military affairs was ignorant of the
: military necessities of the nation, but
had found them well informed.
He said he would welcome a frank
interchange of views, but added, "no
one will expect me to acquiesce in any
| proposal that I regard as inadequate
or illusory."
Should a bill be presented to him
which he could not accept as accom-
J plishing the essential thing sought, he
said, it would be his duty to veto It
and go to the country on the merits.
The views of the President and Mr.
| Garrison were reviewed in other let-
! ters. which culminated in the offering
i and acceptance of the Secretary's resig- |
nation.
Continental Army l'lan
President Wilson has supported the i
| continental army scheme antl continues |
to believe that it is the best plan for ]
strengthening the army. He has made \
it plain, however, in speeches and in :
talks with congressional leaders, that I
the main thing is to get a large re
serve for the United States army and
; that the details must be worked but
i through "common counsel."
The President and Secretary Carri- ,
son have been close personal friends
since the administration came into
office and have stood together on prac- I
i tically every question,
i- Secretary Garrison has been a lead- j
ing figure in President Wilson's official
i family ever since the administration |
| began. To his urging has been as- j
cribed in part Mr. Wilson's determi- j
! nation to carry to the country his plea '
I for adequate national defense.
Mr. Garrison began a close study of
the military situation nearly two years
I ago. He has devoted days and nights !
! to the subject, beginning his inquiry,
he has himself declared, with only u
vague knowledge of the military his
tory of the nation or of the problems .
I presented in planning for defense I
against any possible enemy. For!
! months it has been a common sight at
j the War Department when he has
| been in the city to sec the lights in
his office blazing far into the night. .
Surrounded by his bureau chiefs and *
\ officers on staff duty, the Secretary \
j went into every aspect of the case with :
j all the concentration he developed as a !
' lawyer and a member of the New Jer
j sey judiciary.
I Out of that study came the plan for \
| the continental army and the corelated ;
! increases in the regular army and pro- j
| pqsals for coast defenses and a huge
reserve of war material which con- j
} stitutes the administration prepared- j
ness, so far as the army is concerned.
I Behind that plan the President has
; stood.
Mr. Garrison recently declared for j
universal military training as a doc- '
| trine of democracy, although he said |
! he thought the nation not ready for
! such a proposal at this time. He has j
repeatedly said both publicly and pri
| vateiy that he was so full of the sub- j
! ject of preparedness and of the need *
I for it as a result of his studies that he i
dreamed of it at night and it was with
him every waking moment.
1 The only organized opposition to Mr.
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Garrison's proposals for tho army out
side of Congress has come from mem
bers of the National Guard. During
committee hearings it was disclosed
that the Secretary had offered to give
his support to a militia pay bill, a plan i
of which he disapproved in principle, i
if the guardsmen would support his
proposals "or the continentals. The '
Secretary later made public a letter to i
Chairman Chamberlain, of the Senate |
military committee, declaring himself j
against the pay bills after the guards- 1
men had assailed the continental plan.
Mr. Garrison is understood to have |
been one of those Cabinet members
who have stood most firmly for decla
ration of the nation's rights in the de- ;
liberations that have resulted from ;
the Lusitania incident and the inter- |
ruption of American commerce with
neutral nations of Europe. Mr. Gar- j
rison has himself declined positively to !
discuss any matter relating to Cabinet j
meetings.
When American troops were sent to |
Vera Cruss to relieve Admiral Fletcher's j
marines and sailors Secretary Garrison
worked day and night in an effort to
prepare the army for war in Mexico if
that was to come.
The echoes of the steps he then took
to insure a prompt response by the
National Guard in case of need and to
provide for supplies and army equip
ment in advance of the call for them i
still reach Washington occasionally.
In conducting the affairs of the War '
Department Secretary Garrison has
started a campaign of decentralization, |
which is yet to be completed. His j
theory is that greater efficiency will j
come from lodging responsibility di
rectly with commanding officers,
whether of companies or departments,
and then compelling them to live up
to that duty.
Mr. Garrison is the third member of
President Wilson's Cabinet to resign.
The first. Justice Mcßeynolds, resigned
as Attorney General to accept a seat
on the Supreme Court. The second,
William Jennings Bryan, resigned as
Secretary of Slate because of differ
ences with the President over the con
duct of the submarine warfare contro
versy with Germany.
Pindell Denies He Has
Been Offered Portfolio
By Associated Press
Peoria. II!., Feb. 11. —Henry M.
Pindell, publisher of the Peoria Jour
nal, mentioned in dispatches last
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night as a possible successor to Secre
tary of War Garrison, to-day issued
this statement:
"There is no foundation whatever
for any report that 1 have been of
fered a place in the Cabinet of Presi
i dent Wilson, either directly or indi
rectly.
! "I am not seeking any appointment
or elective position in the public ser
| vice. I am going to Washington
\ next week on a purely social mission.
lat the invitation of an old personal
| friend. There is no political signifi
cance whatever in this visit."
BICHLORIDE VICTIM LEAVES
HOSPITAL UNDER PROTEST
j Willis Coleman, of 2111 Herr street,
Penbrook, who swallowed a bichio
; ride of mercury tablet by mistake
| Wednesday night, left the Harrisburg
j (Hospital yesterday afternoon. Al
j though the physicians said that he
I had not improved enough to leave the
j hospital, Coleman insisted and was
| released.
MISSING MAN FOUND
Waynesboro, Pa., Feb. 11. —Edward
Ely, the plumber, who disappeared
from his home in Shippensburg, on
Tuesday, February 1, and who had
I not since been heard from, was lo
| cated at Ilarrisburg yesteyda.v. He
1 had just returned from San Francis
i co. The man's mind is affected from
[nervous breakdown.
NICHOLAS AT FRONT
By Associated Press
London, Feb. 11. —A Petrograd dis
patch to Reuter's says that Emperor
Nicholas yesterday left for the front.
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