Show THE ITATA CASE Judge Ross Decision Causes the I President Serious Annoyance lie Sees in It the Promise of Great Future Embarrassment Leaves tho Government Gov-ernment Liable for Damages Special to THE HBRALD Ezammer Dispatch NEW YORK Nov 7A special to the Evening Pout from Washington says The decision rendered by Judge Ross in the Itatn case is a subject of serious annoyance to the President who sees in it the promise prom-ise of great future embarrassment He considers that it leaves our government in a position where it can bo called upon to pay damages to every other government which is defending itself against a civil insurrection I any citizens of the United States see lit to furnish munitionsof war to the party in revolt it Is powerless to prevent tho transaction and yet may be called to account for it afterward The President is now contemplating I recommendation recom-mendation in his message to Congress that the statutes be amended so as to make it I unlawful for private parties to render such aid to an unrecognized faction at war with a power friendly to ourselves He would also like to have either an amendment to the statutes or constitutional amendment as might seem best clothing the executive with authority to check by proclamation any operations in apparent violation of the neutrality laws The difficulties of tho administration with the law left in its present condition are enhanced en-hanced by the news from Brazil In that country i the revolutionists organize astron a-stron movement there will be a demand undoubtedly for arms and ammunition which this country can supply and we are liable to have cases of thel tata sort multiplying plying indefinitely All that the revolutionists revolu-tionists will have to do is to enlist their service vessels and crews that creWs are competent compe-tent to carry on a successful smuggling trade and use them as transports being careful that they shall receive their wares in this country so packed as to preclude the assumption that they are intended for the equipment of the vessels themselves and they can get anything they want under Judge Ross decision What adds to the complication is that whereas in the Chilian affair our government was privately advised ad-vised from the outside that the Constitutional Constitu-tional party had a good chance of winning the fight in the case of Brazil all its information in-formation is favbrable to tho president I therefore it should reverse the policy i pursued in the hats incident it feels that it I would be likely to be very sharply called to account by the established government in Brazil at the end of the war |