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\ BLOCKADE OF NEUTRAL PORTS. < Forecast of Supplemental Note Great $ Britain Will Send United States. * Washington, July 2S.?Defence of the rights of belligerents to blockade; a neutral port through which an ene4 my is receiving supplies or attempt- i irie to market his own products is the chief argument that will be made' in the supplemental note Great Bri-' I tain is preparing in reply to the Amer-i ican protest-against enforcement of orders in council. The original.note,' received last Monday, has been with-, held from publication at the request of the British foreign office, pending f\ ^ the arrival of the supplemental com/ munication expected within a week J ^ A11 other issues than that of the; blockade of neutral ports, it is learn-J ?hv tbp Rritish *ru, VWli a cjm aaa.aa 1 government as subsidiary and propei * for later discussion. On recognition by neutral governments of the principle from the Brit ish viewpoint depends the ability of a belligerent, which otherwise has established control of the sea. to profit by the enormous expenditure and sac( rifice which made possible the con-, trol. The matter is all important in the British view. Two developments not discussed in the original note will be taken up in the supplemental communication. Not Yet Discussed. The first is the American caveat of July 17, conveying the notification r that the United States would not rec ognize the orders in council as a sudI stitute for provisions of international ' laws. The second arose in connection with the enforced unloading at * London of the cargo of the American . |steamer Neches June 2. The ship ? was en route from Rotterdam to New j York with a cargo of non-contraband. - mostly of German and Belgian origin, j The British asserted the right under, Its blockade of Germany and that part of Belgium at present under German control to prevent any goods from be* z ing exported the sale of which might i aid the enemy financially. : i Because the principal British argu-' ment is directed to that phase of the right of blockade which affects goods sought to be introduced into an enemy country, it is believed the British I a*'- foreign office felt it necessary to supplement the original note by an argu^ ment extending the claim to cover nocA nf ovnnrfPrl from the' , . V4 DVV^W r ~ ? enemy country through a neutral, port. Civil War Precedents. t" * 'I Civil war precedents on the right of V /blockade form the chief basis of the 11 Xl British argument, attention being ; separately called to the famous '^Springbok" case before the United States supreme court developing the l'* "continuous voyage theory." Though v / this doctrine which, it is asserted, justifies a belligerent in blockading a neutral port was strongly resisted by ^ - European nations, the fact that it was i accepted by the Alabama claims arbi1/ tration was sufficient to make it an; endurable principle of law according1 to the British view. Therefore, the! ( * order in council which is believed by British officials to be entirely in accord with that theory, will continue! to be applied, although with due deference to the protection of legitimate . neutral trade. Incidentally it is contended by >? . . t * Great Britain in its communication j fthat the execution of these orders in: council so far has not resulted in any; damagfe to American trade. * * T LV....OAO ? Anwnran imuc n^um. ; Y According to the British view, that' trade has waxed enormously large! I since the beginning of the war. Amer-! V ican treasury figures showing an in-j * crease of $2,000,000,000 in exports G; during eleven months, while American ocean freight has grown by 744.-j jf' ' 000 tons, significant as indicating the' amount of American goods entering Germany and Austria. Attention is directed to statements that American exports to the Nether-1 : lands have increased from $93,000,b-t: 000 to $122,000,000: to Sweden from, $13,000,000 to $71,000,000: to Norway from $",000,000 to $35,000,000,1 and to Denmark from $13,000,000 to1 $70,000,000. That America received a fair sup- > ply of goods from Germany, notwithstanding the war is shown, the j ijj* British claim, by the fact that in r eight months the imports from that country to the United State aggregat-; ed $86,000,000. and it is noted also' that the import of dyestuffs from Germany was greater than the preJt vious year. k !ielieve<l in the Cop. '-i- * "* I Mistress?Well, cook, if you and I the other maids are at all nervous of; the Zeppelins, you can have your beds removed into th? basement. Cook?No, thank you. ma'am. We have every confidence in the policeman at the gate.?London Punch. A Way Out. j Father?Tommy, no more pudding, tonight. A little boy can't sleep on a * full stomach. Tommy?All right, dad, give me' some more pudding and I'll sleep on; my back! r f w \ m PLANS FOR LARGER FORCES. \ 1 Secretary of War Is Considering Far- o Reaching Changes. n g That Secretary Garrison is prepar- t ing a far-reaching plan for military a reorganization, coupled with an in- c crease in the army, appears to be Sj pretty clear, says a Washington spec- t, ial to the New York Evening Post.11 He is not only working steadily at! r his office, but has been holding even- j ing conferences at the Army and , 0 Navy club and elsewhere with the 0 leading generals on duty here. If re-v ports are correct, he will renew all: b the recommendations made last year,! including the one for 18,000 coast \ artillerymen, and ask for still more, j p and there are even those who think ! v that he may ask for a complete reoi-!d ganizat.'on of the National Guard, the \ establishment of a reserve, and for g other militaristic measures. Just t how far he will go will not, of course. j( be known officially until he is either n ready to announce it in the war de- 7 partment, or reserves it for publica- p tion in his annual report which ap- s pears in December. !" At present, there is less interest p here in the exact scope of his plans than in the attitude of the president toward these recommendations and j toward Mr. Garrison himself. Last year, Mr. Garrison made some rec- n ommendations in his report which n were at direct variance with those in t the president's message, a rather sur-!^ prising happening in view of the fact 0 that a cabinet officer is not supposed ja to differ from his president in a far-jp reaching matter of policy of this kind.! v Apparently the president had never !j seen Mr. Garrison's report before he: ^ published his own message. What: people are wondering about now is j n whether this performance will be re-|n peated this year, or whether the pres-i v ident will before long, send for Mr. I J. Garrison, come to an agreement with j v him as to any recommendations that i _ should be made, for an increase of: ^ our land armament, if any. and make b him confine himself to that which Mr. p Wilson will himself urge in his mes- b sage to congress. e Cabinet Has Had Free Hand. In a sense, this will be a test of the j whole Wilson theory , of cabinet government. Up to this time, Mr. Wil- j( son has given his cabinet officers an b unusually free hand in the manage- p ment of their respective departments. e He has been so concerned with ques- s tions of foreign policy, and has had to give so much of his time to being I 0 his own secretary of State, that he n has not wanted to be bothered with the details of the departments. He t has trusted absolutely officials like ^ Secretary Lane and Secretary Garrison, and he has rather impatiently' brushed those aside who have reach- n ed him with protests against the de- ^ cisions of these officials. He will not ^ reopen cases which they have decid- ^ ed if he can help it. An instance of, hjs loyalty to, and trust in. his sub-j ordinates is his hearty endorsement' and approval of the work being done f by Secretary Daniels, with which he ^ asserted, he is thoroughly familiar, In other words, his relations to his i I a cabinet officers have been in a large j degree the same that he had with his ^ heads of departments in Princeton University. They, it is said, had com J ? plete sway within their own field; i but whether this is so or not. it isi ' Q known that the type of official who1 f g, serves him best in Washington is hej who lets few of the questions before' 1 0 him reach the white house for dis2L cussion or approval. It was this policy which made possible the dis-1 sonance of last year, when the report L of the secretary of war and the presi-i^, dent's message showed, to say the g least, a lack of co-ordination. In some of the departments one! hears in consequence complaints loud j and long* that it has never been so;t, difficult to reach any president and I 1 w to get his mind centered upon lm- j ^ portant departmental matters. It isj admitted, of course, that President ja Wilson has had larger and more far-' ^ reaching national questions to grap-j pie with than any president of vears. .Moreover, he is a tremendous-j l n ly hard working man: he has neither the daziness nor the procrastination;^ in dispatch of official matters which!. marked Mr. Taft's incumbency of the I white house. He labors early and j late without regard for an eight-hour I law or any other. But the question j still remains whether he is sufficientt j] ly overseeing and directing the ac-1 tivities of his cabinet. ' Sentiment Kast aiul West. The question also is asked whether ! lj greater co-ordination would not in-j" - - * it-- a crease the striKing iorce 01 me ?nuir I S' administration, and whether certain . . . , . ! u definite policies, even in domestic matters, ought not he laid down for , d himself and his cabinet to follow.!. The question presented by this mat-i ter of armament will call for a seri-j ous decision on the part of the presi- | dent. Will he follow his secretary of war. who has completely gone ovei b to 'his militarist side, and is believed a to be doing just what the generals, wish him to. or will the president s< stand pat on his message of last year, n and let Mr. Garrison work along that w line of arming the citizens, which Mr. o Vilson himself suggested last year? f 'he decision will be an important I ne, and it is safe to say that it will iot be influenced in the slightest deree by the pumped-up activities of he Navy league, or the artificial charcter of the propaganda of the Seurity league. These may cut a coniderable figure in certain newspapers, ut it is pointed out here that when he National Security league held its ecent conference in New York city, elegates and spectators never ran' ver 100 at one time, and the parquet; f Carnegie Hall was only half-filled .hen the conference was addressed y a couple of ex-secretaries of war. j Just as it is perfectly plain here that here is far more talk of war in the in * V*/-i U'ocf cn thorp is rfClSL cuail 1 Li tlic ?? VO\,, ?v ???v? ? ery little heard here from the Mid-, le West or the Pacific coast about he need of increased armament, ome influential newspapers like hose in Chicago favor increased miliary burdens and expenditures, but lany similar Western papers like thej "opeka Capital, the property of thej tepublican governor of Kansas, are' trongly opposed to what they call, imitating the militaristic folly of! lurope." Views of Hay and Chamberlain. It is to be supposed that the presient will consult with party leaders! ike Representative Hay, the chair-1 lan of the house military affairs com-] littee, and Senator Chamberlain, of; he senate military affairs committee, j 'hese men have almost diametrically pposed views. Mr. Chamberlain is j n ardent champion of Mr. Garrison's! roposals, while Mr. Hay last springi . as wholly opposed to any increases, n a recent interview, he has modied this position, at least to the exent of advocating the passage of the ~:i:<.in Kill nna nf the mncf npr uiiiLia yo.j uiiit vuv xj*. vmw r^- . icious measures advocated in recent) ears, in that the expenditure will un into an untold sum, sum that noody can estimate, and that will carv with it the formation of another angerous military machine and loby. It is proposed, for instance, to ay the national militia, which has een from the foundation of the govrnment ready to serve for nothing. 0 cents a night for attendance at rill. It is submitted that there is othing in the history of our pension sgislation which would warrant anvody in thinking that this rate of ay, if fixed now, will stand unchangd very long. There wil be progresive increases precisely as in the hisory of our pension legislation. Morerer, federal pay for State militia leans the final breakdown of State ontrol of militia. The powers of he State have already been tremenously encroached upon by the proisions of the Dick law, and the aplication thereof by the war departlent, which now dictates to the inividual States what companies shall e permitted to remain 111 uie service! nd what shall be mustered out. Federal Control of the Militia. Already one hears the argument hat the United States had better rankly take over the militia and run t to suit itself, as it does that of the iistrict of Columbia, and that then new force should be created which hould be a State affair. If this were one it would create the national reerve force which Secretary Root urgd years ago, but which he desired o obtain in a different way. In this onnection it is pointed out here that ome of the militia officers who were t first eager for this legislation have ecome convinced that it would "Crete a Frankenstein," have withdrawn rom th*e propaganda, and are now rorking against the measure which hey formerly advocated. One of hese is Col. William A. Bates, of the enventy-first New York regiment. This is but one of a number of roblems that the president must olve with regard to the army and he navv. Beyond all, he must decide hether his party is to yield to the ue and cry for more men and guns nd ships that is going on in certain uartors during this war, or shall ait until it is over for calm conideraticu of the situation in which he world then finds" itself. It is a atural tendency of politicians to ompromise in a case of this kind: he old Roosevelt principle of meetlg a dangerous propaganda by givlg it an inch lest it take an ell alays appeals to politicians, and so he Democratic leaders may decide y go a little way toward militarism 1 order that the Republicans shall ot make the question of national de?nse a campaign issue. Finally, it will be interesting to see ' the president will be accessible to rgnmentf from representative perms and organizations prior to his riting of bis message on this oue j Ion, or whether he will come to this! eoision. as he has to so many others, I > the solitude of his study. Didn't Like Halls. "Did you ever go to a military all?" asked a lisping maid of an | rmy veteran. "No, my dear." growled the old j oldier. "In those days I once had ai lilitary ball to come to me. and. hat do you think? 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