Show It Wo were told the other mprnfng by a near contemporary that Mr lays I I opendoor policy was a failure that I the powers considered U and inL 1 1 > 4 J the claim made by the friends of the Administration that Mr Hay had achieved a decided triumph was In fact i something which was but the laughingstock I laughing-stock of other powers Now the mitt I tel Is just like this Mr Hay asked certain cer-tain pledges from each of the other I powers in China as follows 1Thn It will In novlso Interfere with nnv treaty port or any vested Interest I I I I within any socull 1 Hpheie of Interest J or loaned territory It may hae in < hum j I 2rhllt thr chlnes treaty t tariff of the 1 I I time being shall npply to all merchandise landed J or shipped to nil muh ports its arc within siioh sphere of interest unless i I they be mnt ports I no matter i to what natlonalllv it min belong and thai I duties I r du-ties HO leviable I shall bo collected by l the Chinese Government 3Thal It will levy no higher harbor I duos on vessels of another nitlonnllty fteltlPIii log any port in fitioh sphere than shall be levied on vecscls of If own nationality I 1 i ami no higher I railroad I charges over lines built controlled or operated op-erated within Hi sphere on merchandise j merchan-dise belonging to cltlens or subjects of I other nationalities transported through such spheres than shall bo levied on similar merchandise belonging to Its own I nationality transported over equal dls tames I And the answer made by Count Mu ravlcff ihe Jlussiun Foreign Minister I I In so far ns I lie territory lensod by China lu I Russia Is concerned the lin porlnl CJovcrnmeiu has already demon strati I d l its I linn Intention I to follow the I pollrv of the open door by creating Dalny TnllenWmi a free port HId If I at some future llnm that I port although emilnlng friO Itself should bo separated by a customs limit from other portions of inn terrltors In < iuestlon Ito I customs duties would be iovled In the one sub led to the tariff upon all foreign mcr J cluinta Tlilioul distinction as to nationality I nation-ality The clamor In the United Slates In some of the Democratic journals that the foregoing is I not binding all camo from a writer1 In the National Review I of London and all It amounted to is the expression of thc writers opinion I that Russia would nol keep I the pledge 1 |