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Show SECRETARY LSI IF : 1ERI0R RAIDS 1 ' HIS RESIGNATION Retirement Ends Record of ! Public Service Covering Per-j Per-j iod of Twenty Years j WASHINGTON. Feb. 7. Secretary Lane, of the interior department, today I tendered his resignation to President j Wilson. His resignation is to become effective March 1. It is understood that Mr. Lane's I plans for the immediate future have inot been fully matured, but will be an-J an-J nounced soon. Ho has been secretary I of the Interior since the beginning ol 'President Wilson's administration. Prior to that he was a member and chairman of the interstate conmierce commission. Mr. Lane's resignation terminates a public service of more than twenty yers in which he has held many posts, beginning with local offices in his home state- of California. It has been a matter of common agreement among politcians for some time that j he would be a presidential possibility were it not for the fact that he was born in Canada |