Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-20

will be an adjustment and a settlement. Let us have that understood and we will go along peaceably. Let us now so for ward and settle the question for our selves so far as our responsibilities are involved. Let England have what be- longs to her and no more. I trust that we will waste no further time on this great question, but dispose of it, pass the bill and let the president appoint his commits sion" --
 MT. Allen objected to the second read ing of the bill today, so that the motion to refer could not be entertained. There could be no doubt, he said, that there was unanimous agreement in the senate on the question of the Monroe doctrine. Nobody misapprehended the force of that doctrine or what it was. But there might be a grave question as to its ap- plication to this particular case. He looked upon it not as rule of interna- tional law, except so far as it was rule of national self-defense.
 MT. Hawley said it was not wise to as- sume that great people will not fight, and be regretted the exceedingly warlike tone of the speech of the senator from Indiana. What the senate of the United States wanted was the facts, and they could be had only through a commission. The bill should go to the committee for careful consideration. If the senate should act upon the bill without it's hay Ing TeCelNeus the mature cOnSlueTdllOli Ol the committee on foreign relations 1t would be reproached for having depart ed from it's, usual course. On the other hand. if it were sent to the committee various amendments would be offered to it; for instance, that the commissioners should be nominated through and ap- proved by the senate and that time for final report should be fixed in the bill.
 MT. Chandler. republican, of New Hampshire, obtained the floor, but his contribution to the discussion consisted in having read from the clerks desk the memorial submitted to congress and the president last February on the part of English gentlemen to have system of international arbitration established to prevent war.
 MT. Teller contended that in ordinary deccncy the senate ought to wait until the bill was reported from the committee on foreign relations. The president, he said, had the power to appoint com mission without the consent of congress, but if he wanted the assistance of con gress he was entitled to it. The presi- dents message, as a whole, met his hearty approval; but he had expected it. No president and no secretary of state, he said, had reached a point where he would retire before the assertion of the Monroe doctrine. It was, however, not merely the Monroe doctrine-it was the American doctrine. It was doctrine which grew out of the right of self defense.
 of" said he, "we believe that the es- tablishment of colonies on the western hemisphere is contrary to our interests and threatening to our institutions, 1t is our right to say that they shall not be established We do not resort to interna- tional law for our defense-we resort to the rights of every nation to say that no other nation shall aggregate to itself so much power as to threaten it's stability af ha cro fa ha and if the committee wants two weeks to con sider, or month let the committee take that time. Nothing will be lost by delay Great Britain will understand our atti- tude, and does not misunderstood now. We know that we are not willing. to abandon the Monroe doctrine or to per init European governments to interfere improperly in American affairs. If war should break out it would be a universal war. We would not be without European allies The interests of certain European countries would be that we should de- stroy the prestige of Great Britain, not only on sea- but on land. We know it. and the world knows it. The great Rus sian government, patiently waiting to get it's advent to the sea, would find an opportunity which it has never yet had. DO you think 1t would be slow to take it? Russia is waiting to crowd her domina- ton on the line of British. India. Do you suppose she would fail to do it?
 "She Is waiting to complete her com menced domination over China. Do you suppose she would fail to take the oppor- tunity? Tn my judgment there is no dan ger of war over trivial question like this. I do not wish to say that in the way o1 a threat. I do not believe that is the way to discuss the question. Neither Great Britain nor we can afford to go to war until there is great principle at stake and a. great necessity for war.
 sIt would be the most inhuman thing in the world for these two great English speaking people to go to war. There IS no haste in this matter. It is question involving the friendship, peace and pros perity of the two greatest nations of the world Let us approach it as statesmen and senators ought. Let us not be impa- tient And, above all, let us not be anx- ious only to get political advantage, one side or the other It Is too big question for party purposes and party gain. Let the question may be settled in such away that when Great Britain sees what you have done she will know that there Is a united nation back of it, and that we have, as we ought to have, the approval of the civilized world. We cannot afford to go to war until we have that, and that cannot be had until the facts are Judicial ly determined. When that determina- ton is made l am for acting in accord ance with the honor and dignity of the government of the United States, With out reference IO may DC thC iCSufh.
 This closed the discussion, which was carried on throughout with much spirit. but with no show. of passion or excite ment. As MT. Allen persisted in his ob- lection to the second reading of the bill it had to lie on the table till tomorrow when it will have it's second reading and when the motion to refer it to the com mittee on foreign relations will be in or der. In the meantime MT. Morgan, chairman of the committee, asked that the members meet in committee at 10 a.. m. tomorrow, saying that there were oth- CT resolutions before it embodying the same question. and that he believed the committee would be prepared to report to the senate tomorrow with such sug- gestions as it might deem proper to make. when the senate could then take action on the bill.
 The resolution of MT. Call providing for an investigation into the charges that great corporations had attempted to con- trol legisla tion upon which motion to reconsider was pending. was then taken up. and MT. Call moved to amend by con- fining the investigation to the state of Florida.
 MT. Faulkner, democrat of West vir-