| Show INTENT OF OA VIS AI AMENDMENT To Principle of the tho T Treaty realy o of Constantinople ENGLISH ii Ver I SO Sn Ihl thin or loil I is 1111 it or of IID the tuc loll Chicago De regard to 10 Ut the controversy over the meaning and Ind Jus JUI or of the DaVIS amend amendment ment to the treaty tret Mr r rH H 11 1 II KOhl l eitor editor ur of the Tine Times Herald t today makes Public 1 S private leter letter h he received tro from the late Senator Cushma K Davis The lete letter bears An date Committee on Foreign I I C t S 8 WashIngton U March II 13 lt and is 18 In part as tol foi lowE Tie Tile aMendment ha has this thle advantage that It was phrased t as nealy nearly a as possible In th tile language ot of tho the artIcle of the tue tret treaty of Con amend meat O to this the treaty of oC Con puts put the govern mint I lit th iii where It eItl eItler lr er tile of oC the tra treaty t of oC which BritaIn or flatly I say that tile the lilIes or of that treaty which ar are or of ad advantage vantage to Great Grat Britain stand In our treaty and that the Inel lines of oC that treaty tat whIch are to our and may Inay be to Great alti aln shall be obliterated from our ourt t treaty at It If the committee had Crame framed their amendment 01 on different lines or orIn orin In terms Great could have lh said that we had departed from tile the treaty treat of Constantinople and Intro tu ll n new w principles She would tot pot ilave ln been com correct In lulng saying so bt she would hA said It My own object n nto aa to hold her I Its co closely ni as tu to list het 0 t Tit The letter concludes as aB follows The fhe of oC the United States a as to TeXas eXa are less distant and as aK asto to nt flat much further IU distant tant from the ot of access ot of th tile NIla tU ula than are aro tile the of oC AU at al the lower end or of the He SIR ea te the port of ogress Sue Suez canal The Idea that the lie two situations a ao not IdenticAl In principle so 10 tar far a as the neoU ot of deCena defense Is i simply prepo Atell Article I fi of oC the treaty treat ot of the parties to ak ask other have not It to C cede to It it This the United Stat Slates could ro do tb bault because to do so 10 would b b I a Iu f I its policy A as to cm oem adhered to Inc attire farewell address ArtI rt elt alt t 8 Im some artIcles In the lt or of Constantinople binds tile powers to watch atch over or orthe the n or of the trealy To do thu would bring brine tile the States th th ot of Eu 8 as an active par slId fW pow er em Ta ThAt w cannot du do I as to q treaty In f ef th tile powers to do A as to the wele n hemisphere introducing I a parties In control under rem r i 1411 taut contingencies nd all In violation ot 01 th the Monroe onroe doctrine EN PH COMMENTS i London Dl Dec I 1 IThe adoption U by the I State States Senate ot of lh the Da Davis I amendment to the treaty yesterday II be as ae tar to too weighty a matter for tor hurried tiis tt by y the London morning Jour to this Times and ami nse 11 of oft t II e th r er the they will I un Until J tl til theIr editorial treatment oJ ni the question In II its present PA Vhs h ChronIcle however I It short notice In whIch I it say a aThe The pes is 18 ter r serious indeed I It t n In a word that the jingoes a am 4 of the States Sn Sen have hae trIumphed and that we e are lII heck again today where ht we n were fe at al thit limo ot of the Venezuelan I and ant and provocative sphere The feeling during the I war ar hu has In been shaken b by sym ils It is now swamped by self HIt The he Americans intend to fortify the can canal In of oC the treat treaty to t contrary We cannOt lIS sIbl taUl h by and allow low the t treaty 11 to be titus thull imperiously Iet set aside Tile good 11 relations between n the two to countries must or of necel li tue gravels raI mene nId This is II the or of Mr Ir Me r Voree orte ull hate harl hardly It IC Mr i lied hAd been elected th Daty Daily remarks remark We o havA 10 10 a as to tile the result statesmanshIp wi n I k solution ot of th the dIm cUly cUlt created b by Wo We WoH H i I see how the CIton Claton r un can bf be gl got rid or of Without tile Ule territory reverting to Gret Groat Britain The Tue Standard observes I It is II mor more ot of a rebuff for tor President executive than for tor Great Greal Britain England cannot possibly ac accept the treat treaty thus In and I it would I be InsultIng to the people and government of oC the Unit aol States to assume that tIle would either t denounce the trat treaty wIthout offering an n equitable or contemplate the gross I II legality of oC dIsregarding It There wi will be time enough to ran con aIder thE the abrogation of oC the treaty when tonal formal tenders 1 k ton would e II be 11 by y Grat Great BritaIn wih whit avery devIce to the United States to tor r carry IY out 1 a project highly beneficial to commerce but I it cannot li be that We e our ourI I heat eat rights without Bold solid considers lon tion In return Post after contending The Morning t that hat Fn England In the thc Cia Clay ton uler treat treaty was ni acting virtual virtually ly as 01 the ot of 11 all the maritime powers of at the world 8 says Should tile Unie United States denounce the treaty there Is no means known to International law ot of upholding I it The only known method ot of a stats to an obligation of which I It i is is II the tue of oC compulsion That method Is out ot of the question and hardly b be proposed but It wi will willbe 1 be open to Ortt Great Britain alone or In with other marItime states t I wh hother ther another canal ranal not under tile of oC the UnIted States 11 mar li be worth th the making Tn In nt mat British Interests are Identical with the ot of al all tb the marItime posters save ve tile Unie United |
