Show WHAT DAVIS WROTE in support of amendment to ha foto treaty chicago dec 14 in regard to the controversy over the meaning and justification of the so called dails amendment to the hay treaty mr editor of the almes herald today makes public a private letter he received from the lato senator cushman K dails the letter bears date committee on foreign relations U S senate washington D C march 12 1900 and Is in part as follows the amendment has this especial advantage that it was phrased as nearly as possible in the language of the tenta article of the treaty ot constantinople ti therefore this amendment so adjusted to the treaty ot constantinople ti puts the british government in the position eliere li must either ac capt the principle 0 the treaty 0 constantinople stantin ople which great britain herself proposed or flatly say that the lines of that treaty which are ot advantage to great britain shall staad in our treaty and that the lines of that treaty which are to our advantage and may be disadvantageous to great britain shall be obliterated from our treaty it the committee had framed their amendment on different lines or in different terms great brit adiv could have said that we had departed from the treaty ot constantinople and introduced new principles sho would not leave been correct in saying so but she would have said it my own object was to hold her as closely as possible to her own precedent the letter concludes as follows the possessions ot the united states as to texas are less distant and as to california not much further distant from the ports of access of the nicaragua canal than are the possessions ot turkey at the lower end of the red sea from the port of egress from the suez canal the idea that the two situations are not identical in principle so tar as the necessity of defense is concerned is simply preposterous article 16 of the treaty of constantinople ti binds the parties to ask other states which have not signed it to accede to it this the united states could not do because to do so would be a violation of its policy as to european complications steadily adhered to since farewell address article 8 and possibly some other articles in the treaty of constantinople ti binds the signatory powers to watch over the execution of the treaty to do this would bring the united states within the concert ol 01 europe as an active participating and possibly belligerent power that which we cannot do as to europe the hay treaty invites the european powers to do as to the western hemisphere introducing them as parties in control under certain contingencies cies and ail in violation of the doctrine |