Show ruEun NEUTRALITY lITY CRITICS i IN Ut U. S S. S t EU EUBY BY BRYAN This Country Not Responsible Responsible Responsible sible for Relative Naval Naval Naval Na Na- val Strength WASHINGTON W. Jan 2 25 Senator o.-Senator Senator Slone Stone chairman of tho the senate committee on foreign relations moved mond to Incorporate in the senate nC records 8 today the tho long re reply reply reply re- re ply which lIe he received re ol cd from Secretary Bryan Bran defending tho the Washington governments government's soy gov Interpretation of ot its rights and duties a as a a. neutral In tho the pre present war The letter from the secretary of or elate prepared after consultation with T President President dent Wilson Coun Counselor clor Lansing and the thc legal officers of the government o constituted constituted tute the a administrations administration's answer to hoh hob ave o been charging in numerous nu- nu numerous numerous nu nu- letters to the state department as cell w ll n as a In the tho press and amI public speeches hes that the American governments govern- govern ments neutrality dl discriminated against Germany n and Austria Secretary Bryan Dran summarized popular misconception on this point and ex explained ex- ex that tho the superiority f thus far ar of tho the British na al power had In reality been r responsible for the Inability of many and Austria to tare fare as well as their opponents In matters of or ammunition ammunition ammunition tion and contraband Duty of at Belligerents It Is 15 the business he wrote rot of a belligerent operating on the high seas not the thc duty of or a neutral to prevent contraband contraband con con- nd from reaching an enemy Those Thoo o In this country who sympathize with anI and Hungary Austria appear to assume that some Borne obligation rests upon this lO In the performance of Its neutral duty duly to prevent all 11 trade trad In contraband 1 and thus to the dif dlf- dlf ference due duo to the rei relative naval strength of or the belligerents No Xo such obligation exists It would be an act an art at of partiality on the part of this government nt to adopt such a policy polley If It the tho executive had the tho power to do so If It German Germany and Austria J cannot contraband from this count county It Is not because of oC this fact tact the duty of ot the th United Stat States 8 to close Its markets to tho the allies Th The markets of this country are arc open upon dual nual terms to all nil tho the world to ever every nation belligerent or neu neu- tre While hUo the thc J was devoted I largely to A answering criticisms it revealed Je man many V features M of ot the administrations administration's policies hitherto unexplained Will Not Prevent Exports nJ The rhe c mm bo government nt has hOoS now announced announce Itself as emphatically opposed to Prohibiting the tho export of in munitions IL of or war wan Other than the b lIp belief that the pa passage I e of or such euch legislation would be an act if it passed d ring ell the tho progress or of n a war mir high officials here contend H that such uch u Il law law- even after tho the fn conclusion 11 of Vf the present conflict would In reality foster fOler r the growth of or mm mill They TJ pint out that weak nations which m might have e depended d P In Jr emergencies on Purchasing war from the tho United arini armies States would be JC compelled to keen their constantly on a war 00 footing Ing In I to Supplies involving ol S tremendous 1 r s. s rite file letter reveals re also that tha t tho the United 8 States has taken tho the that position it cannot cannot cannot can- can not permit belligerent vessels to remove arms or from American ships on oft the thc high seas cv n though they b be Ger m maul mans or Austrians J nor cart can promises bo be extracted from them not to participate in till the war Such buch a n protest has 1 been cen sent to France a ax n fl result t of th the search IJ by a a. boarding party from th the French cruiser Conic Comic of an n American ship plying between ell two ports port in Colombia Canadian Request Doni Denied Donled Officials explained to today that the request re- re quest of or the tho Canadian government nl for Tor permission per por- mission to war equipment across Alaska been bren refused d. d as us l disclosed d d In Secretary Bryans Bryan's letter rei ro- ro i to a shipment of oC guna g nu and und ammu- ammu I from northern Canada The Tho CanaI Canadian Cana Cana- I dian authorities wished to bring tho the guns bUllS j to 0 Vancouver by t sea bea ea involving ol a n Journey Journe through a small strip of or Alaskan territory but the thc Washington ton government so denied tho request Tim Tho fact that both Japan and Great Britain ha had been asked to remove their from Crom proximity to lo Honolulu and New ew York respectively and that they acceded ac lac- c coded ceded to the requests attracted wide at attention attention attention at- at here hert in view view- of tho the possibility that such Much requests might be he repeated because bc- bc cau cause causo o of oC re reports that belligerent t ships again were hovering close to American coasts The Washington governments government's pronouncement pro In Secretary Bryans Bryan's letter letteron on tho this question of ot loans was 31 received with much Interest t be because use of or the many constructions which had been placed on the administrations administration's position The Thc I letter states that so far as the state tato department department depart depart- m ment nt Is advised nd no war loans have ha been ma mado o by foreign governments go since President Wilson on announced his dl disapproval ap- ap pro a of such tran transactions The purchase e of ot supplies through the thc establishment of or credits In is regarded ed l h by Secretary Bryan Bryun as purely commercial transactions and not objectionable Great Grea t Britain Franco and Russia are understood understood under under- stood to have halo established man many million dollars dollar worth of oC credits for war supplies M MI I with American firms This form of trade Is Iii not objected to by the tho department department depart depart- ment nl also o because c use no Am American I Is taken from domestic channels War Var loans requiring popular subscription sub tion are under tinder governmental o disfavor also u because of ot the possibility that th partisan partisan parti parti- san an feeling might b be stirred sUrre up among I Americans Americana who become financially Interested Interested Inter Inter- ested In tho the success of or come of ot the thc belligerents |