The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-20
Both Strongly Indorse the Presidents
Position. but Want to Consider
the Commission Question.
VOORHEES, FEARS NO WAR
AND SAYS GREAT BRITAIN WILL NOT
DARE TO FIGHT Us.
Speeches by Lodge, Allen, Hawley and
Teller-PrOpOsed Alliance OF South
American Republics.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.-The spirit of
Americanism still brooded over the Senate
to-day, but although every Senator who
spoke on the subject indorsed the position
of the President, all expressed the opinion
that war would not result. Still. the gravity
OF the situation was not underestimated.
The "war talk of the last few days at
tracted to the galleries large crowds, who
followed the debate with intense interest.
The immediate question before the Senate
was the House bill appropriating 100000 to
defray the expenses of the commission rec
commended by the President. There was
some difference of opinion as to what dis
position should be made of 1t, the general
opinion being that it should go to the COM
mittee on foreign relations. The debate.
however, had no practical result, as Mr.
Allen. the Nebraska Populist. objected to
the second reading OF the bill. Before the
Venezuela discussion occurred Mr.. Cockrell
presented with a favorable report the House
resolution for a holiday recess beginning to-
morrow. but Mr.. Chandler asked that 1t lie
on the table. Mr.. Allen caused broad
smile to go around the chamber when he
asked for the immediate consideration of a
the possible contingency of war with Great
Britain as result of the conflict over the
Venezuelan boundary dispute. and that the
first essential in time of war was money.
that the committee on finance be instructed
to inquire into the advisability of opening
the mints to the free coinage of silver.
After some good-natured sparring, Mr.. Cor
man objected to it's consideration. The
11v,fs A
menian correspondence was laid before the
Senate.
MR.. MORGANS SPEECH.
Mr.. Morgan, chairman of the committee
on foreign relations. was not in the cham
Der when the Senate opened to-day, but
when he arrived he Immediately moved to
refer the House Venezuelan bill to his COM
mittee and took the floor in support of his
motion. The Senate was all attention and
the galleries listened eagerly. Mr.. Morgan
spoke carefully. The Senate should not be
hasty, he said. The bill should be, in his
opinion, deliberated on as long as necessary
to secure an absolutely correct judgment,
and he concurred with Senator Sherman in
the belief that it should first have its con-
sideration in the committee. But-and here
he paused-he wanted 1t distinctly under
stood that he would oppose such a reference
unless ii was made with the distinct under
standing that Congress should not take
the holiday recess until 1t was reported
back. While the Senate should hasten slow
Iy and with all possible speed, delay, he
said, would perhaps lead to the formation OF
an incorrect opinion here, in Venezuela and
in Great Britain 1t was OF the highest
Importance that the position Of this coun-
try should not be misunderstood. The real
purpose of the deliberate consideration of
the bill by the committee on foreign rela-
tions was to give that committee an oppor-
tunity to decide whether 1t was wise now
for Congress to extend the bill so as to in
clude definite expression OF our policy
or to leave that matter to the full and un-
embarrassed action of the President. In
the exercise of his constitutional power he
could form and shape the policy in whatever
manner he choSe. -
Here Mr.. Morgan drew striking Illus
tration of what he meant. In the Ha-
waiian affair Mr.. Cleveland, in the ex-
ercise OF his power, had sent to Hawaii
TO tb ootaln coe oer'ah wtbont the
advice and consent of the Senate, and
when Mr.. Blounts report was made. the
debate deb aueon 1t 1T sns Preside esvIs%
purposes, etc. In other. words. If Mr.
Blount had been appointed in virtue OF an
act Of pags hsen ana
md there could have been no possible
issue between the Legislative and executive
branches of the government. The question
now presented. therefore. was whether Con.
gress should at this time blaze the policy
Of the United States or leave 1t in the
d ao s want ~ It the ea
however, that a difference of feeling ex-
listed between Congress and the executive
principle now. So far as the Monroe doc.
trine was concerned that had been def
nitely settled by the action Of the Presi-
dent.
A WARNING TO THE WORLD.
Mr.. Cleveiands message. and more par.
L.. D-t&s IL
Prime Minister placed the Monroe doc.
trine in a clear, substantial and unequiv-
ocal light before the world, and any ac.
ton Congress took in affirming 1t, whether
by the passage of the House bill, amended
or unamended. could not be mistaken. Mr.
Morgan congratulated the country that thi:
consummation had been reached. He said
he was incapable of expressing the graft
tude he felt over this clear-cut and def
mite enunciation of an American doctrine
founded in love and reverence for Amer
lean ideas or government and rooted anC
grounded in the spirit of our. institutions
dignity of the United States as govern
ment and the prestige of our people a:
nation a AT ahsateIv asa sfsa fsa aatinde Of tS
United States and warned the world tha
1t would be maintained and enforced.
Secretary Oiney's dispatches, Mr.. Morgan
| said the Secretary's conclusions were IL
| harmony with his own views. There is. hs
| said an American doctrine, such as tn,
| Secretary of State formulates, and on,
| which, when 1t becomes applicable in
| material way to a country on the Western
| hemisphere, ii behooves US to support. w,
| shall certainly stand committed to tn,
| maintenance Of this doctrine after the
| adoption Of this resolution. According ts
| the Presidents views IL only remains fol
| Congress TO appropriate the money neces
| sary to enable him TO continue his IN
| Quiry, but Mr.. Morgan thought there nigh
| possibly be objection to proceeding through
| the fundamentally OF a commission. ans
| announced his preference for an independ
| ent investigation by the President himself
| as contemplated. Evidently IL was IN.
| Presidents desire to secure the supper
| os such a commission for whatever con
| clusions he might himself have formed
| s'but suppose" Mr.. Morgan said ''it shoult
| transpire that the commission would de