Show LANSING HANDS IN HIS resignation CALLING OF MEETINGS OF CABINET DURING THE presidents ILLNESS CAUSE OF BREAK secretary of state quits quite office after exchange of notes in which preal dent Express ts displeasure at hla his action hIngton flobert lansing secretary of state tendered his lil lion to PAt wilson lanon on rebr february uary 13 hint and Is nu longer a r of the ed bInet mr air resigned n it IA 1 led president willson hillid III aused illin of usurping abo powers of if president by calilung meetings of the cati cab jaet alnet during mr wilsons Wll Wil ionN sons illness mr air lansing denied that lie li had Il ought or intended to usurp tile he dentral authority ile he added however that flat lie h believed billu ved thin then and still bel believes leves that lint the lie cabinet conferences were for alio io best interests intel oits of tile the bal til t flioy ey were w proper and necessary 1 lie be ouse of the lie and that stint lii lie would liap love been derelict lit in ills duty if lie laid imil balled to mt act us its lio lie ihil an ali the record meanda mr lansing tendered ills his resignation and mr I 1 wll vil son ron accepted it the was iw 0 offered however only after the prest ant it under tinder late duto of february 7 ha had written asking 11 nvere truo true that lint mr lansing ia cinyd calfa anil atrium I 1 1 hat at aj L such I 1 atre the lie case came lie felt it necessary imes Mury to say may that under our constitutional lev law und practice ns as developed hitherto no one but tile 11 pi resift sll nt has the right to summon tile headid of lie executive departments into conference mr lansing answered two days int or february 0 saying buying lie he lind had called the cabinet conferences because lie and others of tile tho presidents official family felt that hat in view of the fact that wo we were denied communication with alth you it was for us to confer informally together on matters as to which action could not be postponed until your medical advisers per witted you ou to pass upon them the secretary concluded by saying that if the president believed lie he had fallad in ills AS loyalty to him hill and if mr wilson no longer had confidence lit in him lie he was vas rendy ready to relieve you of a any embarrassment by placing my resignation in your hands tho president replied that ho hn was much disappointed by mr Lan landings sings lett letter r regarding tile the so called cabinet meetings if ho said paid he found nothing in the lie letter latter which justifies your assumption of presidential authority in such a mutter and added that lie ha roust must frankly take advantage of your our kind suggestion to resign 1 I must say continued tho the president that it would relieve me of era em barrassi nent mr air secretary the em barrassi nent of feeling your reluctance rail and divergence of judgment if you would give up your present office and afford tile ine an AD opportunity to select some one elso el whose igind would more willingly go clone with mine |