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Show EFFECT OF RETIREMENT ON PENDING ARBITRATION TREATY Washington, Nov. 11. The voluntary volun-tary rotlromont of Ambassador Jas. Dryco of Groat Britain which Is expected ex-pected to be formally announced today to-day or tomorrow It Is believed will mark the abandonment of, any purpose pur-pose on tho part of the Unltod States to secure the consummation treaty with Great Britain. Tho flrot Impulse of tho president after tho Benato had amended the treaty during last sosslon In spite of the protests of tho administration Benators was to Immediately abandon aban-don the convention and to decline to undertake to nduco the British government gov-ernment to accept tho amendment which struck at tho very cssenco of tho principle of unrestricted arbitration. arbi-tration. After moro mature consideration, consid-eration, however, and frequent conferences con-ferences between Secy. Knox and ambassador Dryce, tho president was disposed to consider the advisability advis-ability of pressing the treaty to a conclusion on tho theory that It would at least constitute a notlco to tho world of the intention of tho two governments to bo guided Uy tho principal of arbitration in their further dealings. It was urged also that with tho treaty as a foundation it might bo possiblo In tho near fu-turo fu-turo to bring tho senato to tho point of approving supplomentnry articles which In effect, would amount to unlimited un-limited arbitration. Cause of Retirement Recently, however, the administration administra-tion becamo convinced of tho Impracticability Imprac-ticability of this plan and It Is believed be-lieved tho final decision of tho president pres-ident to drop tho treaty was the determining de-termining factor In bringing about Ambassador Dryco's decision to retire. re-tire. Tho ambassador had hoped ho might round out his diplomatic career ca-reer by signing a treaty which would stand as a mllepost In tho history of the growth of International altruism and tho peaceable settlement of International In-ternational disputes. Sir Cecil Arthur Sprlng-Rlce, who Is likely to succeed Mr. Dryce, has had a long and distinguished service ser-vice In tho diplomatic field and Is woll remembered here for his long services at the Drltlsh embassy during dur-ing the aays of Lord Pauncefote. At the foreign office In London he has held many Important posts and has been closely1 Identified at various times with tho Earl of Grandvllle, Lord Itosebery and moro recently with Lord Curzon, while governor general of India. Sir Arthur was at tho Drltlsh embassy em-bassy here at tho time Lord Curzon Cur-zon came to marry Miss Letter and was ono of tho leading figures In that International coremony. Later ho was minister to Persia, whero ho carried forward tho Curzon policy of a mutual Anglo- Russian policy as to Persnla. Ho retired from tho Persian Per-sian post previous to tho storm whlh raged during tho presonco thero of W. Morgan Shuster, Jr. More recently re-cently ho has been British minister to Sweden. In a statement today tho Drltlsh embassy announced tho tlmo of Mr. Dryco's departure had not been fixed. fix-ed. Mr. Dryco Intimated to his government gov-ernment In July, 1911, his wish to retire, It Is sold, as tho questions he had come horo to settle, all had been disposed of. At tho request of his government, It Is stated, h0 remalnoa to deal with cortaln othor matters then ponding. Dryco retired, it Is said, to devoto himself to tho completion of two literary works, on which ho had long been engaged. from difficulties appeared to havo left him. It becamo known today that tho department of Justice had unearthed evidence not only that Johnson caused caus-ed Dollo Schretbor, tho whlto woman namod In tho Indictment to como to Chicago, but that ho sot her up in "buslnoss" as part owner of a resort in tho south side levee. "When tho caso against Jack Johnson Is presented to a Juryi It will not oven bo open to debate," said a government lawyer. "There could not bo a plainer caso of whlto slavery la violation of tho Mann act." "Tho supremo court haa never ruled on tho constitutionality of tho Mann act," said Attorney Bachrach. "Thero aro fivo different cobcs In which tho question is involved now on tho docket of tho court and sot for nrgumont In tho January torm. Wo hopo to havo tho Johnson caso argued nt tho samo tlmo and will ask for acceptance of ball pending thcso proceedings." |