The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-31

did not come through the state depart- mvnt,
 These authorities on matters of official and diplomatic etiquette became mvolv- ed in quite & tangle, and the great crowd in the galleries thought the con- troVersy had something to do with the Venezuelan complication. Finally, on MT, Morgan's motion, the whole matter went over until 1t could be ascertained from the secretary of state or the Ar genuine minister what it was all about, During the controversy Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts was ap- parently very nervous. He had placed | parcel of manuscript and a pile of books and documents on desk in the center of the republican side of the chamber preparatory to delivering his advertised speech on the Venezuelan question, His speech was awaited with great interest by the senate and by the crowds in the galleries.
 Mir Chandler, rep, of New Hamp- shire, introduced a bill to enlarge the interstate commerce commission by making it consist of one member from each state. It was referred to the com mittee on Interstate commerce. | The house bond bill was laid before the senate, read twice and referred to the finance committee.
 Allen, populist, of Nebraska, started a little financial furry by offering a res olution calling on the secretary of the treasury for a statement of all notes outstanding, but no one made any ob- iection ands a controversy was avoid ed.
 Senator Mitchell announced that at the conclusion of Senator Lodges speech he would ask the senate to pro- ceed to the consideration of the reor- ganization resolution, which means that the republicans will assume control of the committee, which they are en- abled to do, as the democrats and pup ulists have decided to make no opposi- ton.
 A large number of republican sena- tors think it very bad policy to take control of the committee when they have not sufficient votes to control mat ters in the senate, but the young mem bers insisted upon it.
 MT. Lodge, rep, of Massachusetts according to notice, rose to address the senate upon the Monroe doctrine He said he had intended not to do so until the joint resolution introduced by him giving to the declaration made by Pres ident Monroe in his message of Decem, ber 1923, the formal sanction of con. gress had received the consideration 1 of the committee on foreign relations But since then the president had sent in his message on the Venezuelan diff. culty, and congress, without dissent. ing voice, had authorized the com mission which the president requested
 This action had led to much wild talk and cries more vocal than numerous from those who say We should never do anything to clash with England This outcry, coupled with Londons at tempt to frighten congress by produc ing a stock panic, had tended to con fuse the issue. He, therefore though q little cool explanation would not bt out of place.
 | Two cardinal principles, he said, hat always governed the United States ir their relations with foreign nations the first was Washington's neutrality doctrine, ashlaid down in the farewell address. The second was the Monroe doctrine, the history of which he traced in detail
 The only attempt heretofore made bl outside powers to break through tha doctrine was the joint intervention o England, France and Spain in Mexico in 1861. A second case has now arisen and the maintenance of the Monroe doc urine is again threatened as it was bS the French in 1862 This second attacl upon the principle of the Monroe doc Urine comes from Great Britain, and i is made under cover of boundary dispute with Venezuela,
 In order to show the importance O this controversy. which has now reach ed a certain crisis affecting most grave ly the honor, the interests, the rights and the well-settled policy of the United States, he sketched briefly" as he said but with elaborate details, the history of the dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela, and of the negotiation! 1 between the two countries.
 He continued as follows:
 Ut will be observed from this brie outline of the dispute, that no nev rights have come to England or |, Venezuela since 1814-that is, since tn declaration of President Monroe. The! have the rights of Spain and Holland respectively, nothing more and nothing less, and are entitled to exactly wha those inherited rights give them. Il 1896 British Bnister acknowledge that Point BarifYia belonged to Vene zuela by asking the Venezuelan gov ernment to erect a lighthouse there.
 'In 1S40 a British court in Demerar declared the territory of the MorocC far to the east of the Orinoco. to b Venezuelan territory. In 1S41 an Eng fish engineer laid out a perfectly al bitrary line running from the mout of the Orinoco in a southerly directio until it reached the southern boundar of British Guiana.
 Lord Aberdeen sdisavowed this line and proposed another, at the rive Moroco and going further into the in terior: Lord Granville proposed another reaching further to the west; LOT Rosebery another, inside the Schom burgk line, but coupled with the fire navigation of the Orinoco. In 1893 h proposed a second line, and meantim Lord Salisbury had extended the Brit ish claim while he was secretary fo foreign affairs.