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Show COLBY TO APPEAR U BEFORE PROBERS wM THURSDAY S 'li WASHINGTON, March 16. Balu- ! bridge Uolby, nominated by PresI- den't Wilson to be secretary of 'stnta 1 accepted nn' Invitation today to ap- peat- Thursday before the senate for- etil tejatlons committee to make a statement regarding certuln .ques- , H tlons which are delnying his conflf- H The committee' action is under- ! stood to have been taken by common H consent of Republican and Democrat- , Pl ic members, as a result of Informa- ! ttnn gathered In secret hearings 011 '1! Mr. Colby's qualifications to head i the state department. The nature ! of this Information was not divulged ! however, and It was said the state- :ii ment to be' made by him would bo regardcd'in the same confidence' J !! VhPHI A transcript of all the testimony 1 taken by the committee is said to ll have tcen scot to Mr, Colby along -P with the committee's invitation. The rl nominee at first had been Invited to II iH nppear today but Bent word that ho ill found it Impossible to reach Wash- f ll" ington. .HU The nomination has been a.waltlng 1L'''I action sluce February 25, and Jiyx llll witnesses including Gen, Marlsbor- ' ImH ough Churchill, chief of army Intellt- !! gence, have been heard. Meantlmo lrll state department ofllciats have -' de- tW;l dared tho post of secretary of state '! vacant under a statute of limitations- ! with the result thjU cgrtnln work . 'rl 1 fl tlelcgnted by law to the secretary, in- eluding the signing- of all passports, Is at a standstill. iff MM-I Comm'ltteo members were not pre- (l H pared tonight to say when action on (H lH the nomination might be oxpected, B HI vfl declaring It might depend to somo , degree on Mr. Colby's statement on H , Thursday. There was no disposition 1 liH 1 'Vfi however, to be optimistic ofaany early m t, vote, It. being Intimated that-regnrd- ini less of. what the nominee told tho 'il committee, other witnesses might' be 1vli called. i U 1H Amongliepubllcan members of tho H ' rommitlee, It Is declated that the (lis- tl ,i advantnge.s suffered by the state de-,' " partment because of the vacaucyaru" ' 'll of a minor, and purely technical 'im- BIH ture, and that 'the president's powers - ' blunder bl-under the Overman act are broad en- H3I ough, If he cared to accept them, to II permit his resignation of some othei- ill ill official to perform all the duties of It' -I n secretary, ' " x, IlK? 'J. . ( r I mm'-i' |
