Show IS OLIT secretary Su of war tenders tal levs to lo in presidents IT WILL BE ACCEPTED came as a surprise to other cabinet off officials NO REASON YET ASSIGNED neither the tha president tho the secretary NOT nor otter other cabinet Offic officers erg will talk resignation was expected at the end of this year but not now mr alger had just returned from fram a long conference with vice pres I 1 dent hobart at his now new jersey home gossip as to who will succeed to the portfolio gen horace porter now to france gov roosevelt of 0 new york ge gen n harrison gray otis and assistant secretary lejohn among choso mentioned washington july 19 secretary A alger today tendered to the president his resignation ot of the war portfolio por tho the resignation will become effective august let though it was tendered dt at the pleasure of the president gossip has already begun as I 1 to 0 his successor but it Is entirely speculative tor for notwithstanding the r reports that mr alger it would not long continue at tile tho head of 0 the war depar department ament his actual resignation camo came suddenly and unexpectedly that it would conie come by the end of 0 tho the year was generally belc believed vod bl bico ao little vias lias it expected at thic time tl ne that the cabinet officers ittu the news first became public were inclined to regard the announcement as premature the announcement that it was actually in hand band coming to 0 o them in the nature of 0 a surprise formal acceptance of 0 tho ie had not blen been made mada by thi the president up to a late hour hocq tonight but will be in a letter to bo be it ritten britten within the next day or alto att 0 no statement ns as to the cause of the resignation waa avlas procurable cither from the president or from secretary alger neither of whom would lv l V on the subject nor mor was the letter of 0 resil resignation nation obtainable at this time tim vor for the present nothing will be said paid officially concerning the severance of the at relations between the dent and his big war minister but later on the correspondence cinal closing ng the lat lattera career as chloc chief ot f tho the war ivar 0 department doubtless it will III be given to the press ONE REASON ASSIGNED the belief had prevailed in washington tor for some time that secretary alger would resign from rom the cabinet hut but the date generally act tor for it was toward tho the close ot of the year after he had submitted ills his annual report in which he ha intended Intend rd to surn sum up lip what ahat had been accomplished during ills his brief but eventful event tul dIrLe direction tion of 0 the war department its tender then had been regarded as an almost a foregone conclusion in alow of mr alpers algers announcement about a month ago that lift lie had concluded to enter com tor for the vacancy in the united states senate to be caused by tho thi expiration 0 of th the e term of af senator and that he had enlisted in his active support gov pingree to whom had been attributed free criticisms of tile the policy that iia nas 3 supposed to be b cherished by the pre president 51 toward the filipinos there have been many explanations and denials denial of the facts in that cass case but in the end the impression was conveyed that the tt result ot of the michigan n visit ot of tile the secretary had been t to 0 change the rela relations tinni between the P resident president and himself to such a degree aa to make a restoration of their tor for m mr or status and to render t the he conn ac L 1 0 n 0 df the two as part dart of 0 I 1 the ile same fame n 1 inclan t ac aa 1 famely undesirable VON conference WITH I 1 at one time pir then there was ground far the bollet belief that a rupture might be avoided but this belief ceasel ceased to be held when vi hen the news spread that ilee president hobart and secretary alger aleer were in conference at norman h huret e 1 it was waa largely at least as a r result of 0 tills ills conference that secretary alser alger decided to leave the C cabinet abinet a at t this time at this conference ahe r e were present besides secretary aig alear ri his bis military aide and close personal a and a d political friend and adviser maj H hopkins hopking OP and perhaps some bom other p person et pon or persons I 1 who he felt also a deep in inhere te tere rest in the future of the secretary there lias has been no disclosure of what passed hut it la Is significant that the return of 0 the secretary to washington was fol followed lood by prompt action lie he arrived in washington last night too late to mako an any official calls almost before the executive departments were opened tor for business this morning morn lne he called at the white house an and d vis visiting I 1 ling the president I 1 in n his office announced that he had concluded to resign his office what passed between betwee n himself arid and the president lot Is only a matter of Pur surmise mise tor for neither ila hive ve anything to say on this point FOUND LETTER OF RE resignation IGNATION later secretary alger alcer w girote rote out his formal letter of resignation tinn and per anally carried it over to the white house lils 1110 call on thui this occasion was wait brief and when he returned to the war iyar dopart department ment he cloned the door of ins his to t most of the callers w who he were in waiting and had a long co conference efer with adje gm con corbin corban to the newspaper mot men who it I 1 to mecum some expression from am him lit SP se flarv wax courtroul court roua but bul nr arm I 1 I 1 on lit tin on id gm G m corbin an and d on n the other mr air virlor AU ala an n his hl p arl I 1 is in secretary by his authority oft im 1 they hey said made the ann announcement that secretary alger had submitted his hi as resignation Igna tinn to the prid president nt to 0 o take lake effect at the ploRa pleasure ure of the pres president il ent A at t his n r residence ep 11 nee in the bevc kizzir the secretary was var oquilly u I 1 1 y t ive and nd 1 positively a el declined i cl ined to a asin i g I 1 al any reaia reason n arit for the action re he I 1 had i taken 11 lie e hod had called during the afternoon on seer secretary r if hoy at 1 the S slat ate department rind and with him at home hoin were or e alj I 1 dopkins and mr maion ma ion hill but beyond the lh peper ni niri mn ri fw fir of t whom ellrod recess ceci ce ii to him th tha secretary yaw paw no on PLANS FOR THE FUTURE his plans for the future have already tren been defined c fined mr ir I the As tl stant of at war tar 1 at present to hn he in r I 1 he ie ant A nt two me geeki 0 kv ago to make a per fonal inspection of oe taft vo fox riv river r improvement pro p a scheme which haq ha g alvn n I 1 he enaire engineering e ring bureau endless tr trouble and which now nott r requires aires some po stive recommendation at the hand of at the secretary t 10 congress at the next P BC plon pion lie he has ha heen been notified at n ahat has happ happonen on 11 and is 19 expected to return to in IV washington ington to a ahmo charge of ri the file war depatt department mont uni aunill 1 ruh I 1 lime aa th the president Fresl dent c ahall 1011 loll na name e a et manent nl 1 secretary Frn probably bably that vill he be hv the end of chiz th present month and hy by the lat 1541 of t secretary alger will he be nt it 1 liberty t to m lay lai down lili ills tik task ito ho Is 13 much I r ar I 1 1 I hy by the eight of responsibility lity he has horna home tor for nearly toi inn yearn and a 8 halt half ho bo has ag ared 4 ye years r I 1 in the opan opinion 1 on ot of hla big personal fri friends rid and I 1 Is s in need of rest he proposes PO A ea to depart tor for the northwest and dpn ti s some t time ime in the lumber camps beien belone gi lne ronalo to him still and then to visits to hla his children these will occupy his time until wll well along alone into nit net fall all about political matters the secretary does not speak now but it may he fairly that he then will be ready in ilola lew of 0 hla his already announced decision to take such part pan in the in Illic michigan higan senatorial contest as 05 con conditions at the time hlll III warrant AS TO HIS SUCCESSOR SOn the tha closet inquiry falls to elicit any I 1 nor matlon at as to I 1 the he intentions ot of the president respecting the he appointment of a successor to mr alger a as 4 secretary of war var names are mentioned but they ate aie only those huh havo have already been with more or less ea of 0 plausibility in the press without securing either confirmation or it nial from any well informed persona the members of 0 the cabinet are all dis inclined to talk about the be selection lection though one did say tile the Pre president t hid had mado made no mention ol of a name to him and he believed that no decision had j i 1 lie z oil aliro t the Z impression W that no appointment would bo be made immediately but that mr john would be al allowed lovied to lo dire direct C t affairs for some time to conic come among the names which have been mentioned from time time lit in MIR d direction when talk of 0 secretary algers alger a forthcoming reb ignation had been rife havo have been those of 0 gen horace tori pori portor porter tor ter of 0 new yolk now ambassador to france gov GOT roosevelt sit of oc new york tork gen Hard harrlson sort gray cray otis oils and assistant secretary AD INTERIM SECRETARY the name vc of gen corbin corban has been mentioned in connection mith an ad interim appointment pending the selection of a permanent occupant of 0 the office this gossip BOSS IP included questions of 0 locality and the opinion visa vas expressed in some well posted quarters that the selection would bo be made from the west ivest all this however hoever Is mere speculation and it reams probable ti bioni am the fact that the resignation was only today that the hie president h djs a 8 not had time to canvass the th situate situation a and make a selection election As to the reports report that gen corbin would be secretary ad interim an official close to the general said the there was no basis for or the report that the P president resi had never contemplated naming gen corbin ud ad interim and it if such ach an ait appointment tilts aa tendered it mould not be accepted there was some talk also that gen corbin might be glen eh en the portfolio port tollo permanently although this was regarded as lin among corbins Corb lna friends rl endl there would be precedent for op such buch a course however as a ln in the case 0 of gen elds cabinet bervice BUZZ of COmAI COMMENT ENT the th liens new a of 0 the resignation caused a a buzz of comment this evening in all publio places but at the white house hous there ther was no evidence throughout the evening that any unusual event it had ad occurred the president nent inc for a drive ft ith his big niece mrs duncan late in the ahe handling the relna if there was no caller of 0 I 1 am al pol tance during the early part ot of the iho evening but about 9 secretary Swreta ry may hay accompanied by senator fair hanks if indiana who Is just hack back from an of tho the abakan in boundary seat baat of 0 difficulty came over for a talk on this suba subject e ct hitchcock hitch ock and an d comptaro P r ddt adt c called a lied socially tor a few in minutes there was no of a a cabin cabinet it conference and no suggestion of 0 anything in that line there was t to 0 give out nut for or it was said an evening round of nf the rab cabinet lizet om cers cera still in town abowd tile lie samo same uno unwillingness willingness wi ninnes t to talk of the resignation some of 0 them said that they had bad felt elt that the resignation was likely to conw come at any time but that they were go BO surprised at the published annn announcement that it was nas actually in an hand that they worp wore first inclined to regard JL it as pre matur CORBIN IS SORRY 41 gen en corbin was wa seen been during the evening eve and while not v I shIng to discuss any 0 of the facts acts connected conno cled with n jib the resignation piersel expressed pr ersel his lil P regret at tile the turn lurn n at affairs 1 I wl feel treat great sympathy and great respect for fop the secretary alato ry will show that if he be has haa erred it has ben been on an the ida of 0 the soldiers soil Here orie oy the alde of tho hoa hofere ho were fighting tho bettles AN mail ra an in ID that position tia has ha ever hari had m mr r at heart the interests In tereK 0 of the sold soldiers lers their comfort and their welfare time binic and ali he ha s said to tie that everything must yield before tha requirements or 0 I 1 the men in the held and it if the funds were lacking h he would pay tr tor t r it himself lie he wild leave the department with i alth ills respect and esteem of every man in it secretary algers alger departure from rom the th cabinet ill leave lav in it only three ot of those members who entered it at tho the beginning 0 of the th namely gage case long and witson so n the tbt number Dur tr of changes that have occurred OC during the two iwo and a halt yer years of at ftp itc lifer 11 have been very un uni usual us ual alx lx cabinet off officer cers in all have hae ro signed their portfolio port tollos either cither to re retire tire to private life or to accept other positions pa 1 eions of 0 honor and trust at the bands ot of the iha president Freol dent these include secretaries of 0 state sherman who went out because 0 of ill health find and advanced W aae and day nho accepted a united stan statts s attorney general Ic KOnna who he accepted a position poEl llon on 0 n the supreme areme bench beach of the unit united ed states po generel cary who sho retired hocius of 0 ill health and secretary tary BLISS ot of the depart department n t who andea resumed to new york and r arned active connection A ith business bu alnesa affairs GRIGGS IS SUGGESTED the transfer of 0 attorney griggs front the Depuit ment 0 of justice to the war department has been suggested by those ho be are figuring on secretary AH jg i s erBor tonight rry 1 I 1 is 1 urged that hat thi hi larg 1 in ini cased ria aei legal lon alth are constantly cont antly corning coming wore before the war department as a consequence of nor new makes it de desirable that the executive officer hp he FL a man of oc toga attainments ments and experience in this thia connic lion the name of elehu root hoot the hie veil nell known new york lawyer a yer Is mentioned menti ned james it II of now lit in the volu titter establishment and governor of the province of matanzas cuba Is also spoken of |