Show SECRETARY OF WAR GARRISON RESIGNS BREAK BETWEEN PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY OF WAR RESULTS IN resignation elimination 0 of f continental army plan and the philippine measure said to have been cause of split in the cabinet lV ashington secretary lindley M resigned on thursday february 10 because president wilson would not irrevocably support uie continental army plan and because ib lie he opposes tho administrations program of setting a definite nite time for phillp philip pine independence president wilson accepted the nation and has not as yet selected a successor the president himself probably will take personal charge of tile the administrations national defense plans in congress assistant secretary breckinridge Breckinrid go also resigned as a mark of loyalty to his chief whose views he shared tho the president accepted his resignation both take effect immediately major general hugh L scott chief of staff of tile the army automatically becomes secretary of war ad interim it Is known that one of secretary garrisons principal reasons for his conviction that only a federal continental army instead of a reorganized national guard could bo be the main military militar tar dependence of the nation was his belief that some lv dav tile the united states may be called upon to defend the mon roo doctrine and in that event lie ho foresaw the national guard might not bo be available for use outside of the united states before a of war upon the contention on the ono one hand that the continental army or ultimately ti universal service was the na 1 eions only reliance and the posit position ioni on the other liand that no one plane etani could be enforced upon congress president wilson and tile hla secretary of war parted official company mr garrisons resignation was a complete surprise to off loial washington generally lie he made no perso personal personifi niti explanation several hours before tho the official announcement lie he had boarded a train with his wife for now york and word lad had been passed at ai the dopart department part ment that he had gone tor for an indefinite stay tho the acute difference of opinion which led to the break began early in the year when opposition to the continental tin army plan began developing in congress when the president went into tho the middle west recently to speak on na lional defense it was understood that lie he undertook tho the trip partially at tho the suggestion of mr garrison during tho tour the he president spoke saoko at every meeting in favor of the garrison army plan but said that lie he was not particular about details as ablong long as a reserve of approximately trained men was secured it was said that mr wilsons Wil sons failure to refuse any compromise on he the subject in his speeches esias waa the direct cause of mr carrl suns auns resignation |