Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-31
Will Use Their Power Accord
 ingIy, Said MT. Allen.
HE CAUSED MUCH LAUGHTER
The Senate Decided by Small Majority to
 Reorganize.-
THE QUESTION WAS WARMLY DEBATED
Mr. Lodge Spoke on the Venezuelan Ques- ton and Pointed Out the Fact That We Are Not the AgeFsssors in oF
 the Dispute.

Washington, Dec. 30.-Among the pa pers presented and referred were resolu- tions of the Lincoln post of the Grand Army of the Republic of Topeka, kas., "tendering their services" as MT. Peffer phrased it, lin case we should have any trouble with our neighbors on the other side of the Atlantic" They were refer red to the committee on foreign relations.
 MT Voorhees, presented communica- ton from the charge d'affaires Of the Ar genuine republic (now in charge of the le- gation in the absence of the minister) on the subject of commercial relations be- tween that country and the Umted States, and asked that it be referred to the committee on finance.
 MT Hoar called attention to the rules of the senate, which provided that no tition, memorial or other paper, signed by citizens or subjects of a foreign power shall be received by the senate except through transmission by the state de- partment.
 After a colloquy- on this point and ruling by the vice-presdent that the paper could not be received, the matter was allowed to lie over for the present
 The house bill as to bonds was laid be- fore the senate, read twice and referred to the finance committee.
 Mr Mitchell of Oregon gave notice that he would, at the conclusion of remarks to be made today by MT. Lodge, ask the senate to proceed to the selection of com- mittees; also that he would afterwards ask the senate to take from the table his proposition to impose a duty on wool, for the purpose of enabling him to make some remarks thereon.
 o1.1ttn harnfnfnrn offered MT Quay, calling on the secretary of the navy for information as to whether it would be advantageous to the naval ser vice to contract for six new battle ships, instead of two, was taken up and agreed to.
 MT. Lodge addressed the senate on the subject. He said he had intended not to do so until the joint resolution intro duced by him relative to the declara- fion made by MT. Monroe in his message of December 1923, had received the con- eideration of the committee on foreign re- lations but since then the president had sent in his message on the Venezuelan difficulty, and congress, without dis senting vote, had authorized the com mission which the president requested. This action had led to much wild talk and cries from those who believe we should never do anything but clash with Eng lands interests This outcry, coupled with London's attempt to frighten con- gress by producing stock panic, had tended to confuse the issue. He, there fore thought a little cool Legislation would not be out of place.
 Two cardinal principles, he said, had always governed the United States in their relations with foreign nations. The first was Washington's neutrality doc Urine as laid down in the farewell ad- dress. The second was the Monroe doc Urine, the history of which he traced in detail. The only attempt heretofore made by outside powers to break through that doctrine was the joint in- tervention of England, France and Spain in Mexico in 1861. A second case has now arisen and the maintenance of the Monroe doctrine is again threatened, as it was by the French in 1862. This sec ond attack upon the principles of the Monroe doctrine comes from Great Brit ain and is made under cover of a bound ary dispute with Venezuela. In order to show the importance of this contro- versy, which had now reached crisis, affecting the gravity. the honor, the in- terests, the rights and the well settled policy of the United States, he sketched briefly as he said, with ella borate de- tails, the story of the dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela and of the negotiations between the two countries. He continued:
 Tt will be observed from this brief outline of the dispute that no new rights have come to England or to Venezuela since 1874, that is, since the declaration of President Monroe. They have the rights of Spain and Holland, respectively noth- ing more and nothing less, and are en- titled to exactly what these inherited rights give them. In 1886 British min ister alleged that Point Barima belonged to Venezuela by asking the Venezuelan government to erect light house there. In 1S40 British court in Demarara de- clared the territory of the Morocco, far to the east of the Orfnoco, to be Venezue- Ian territory. In 1841 an English en- gineer laid out perfectly arbitrary line running from the mouth of the Orinoco in a southerly direction until 1t reached the southern boundary of British Guiana. Lord Aberdeen disavowed this line and proposed another, starting at the river Morocco and going further into the in- terior Lord Granville proposed another reaching further to the west. Lord Rose bery proposed another inside the Schom- burgk line, but coupled with the free navigation of the Orinoco. Tn 1893 he proposed a second line and meantime Lord Salisbury had extended the British claim while he was secretary for foreign affairs. Every British minister has of fered a different line with which Great Britain would not consent to arbitrate and every British minister has gone be- yond his predecessors in making fresh claims to territory beyond the line which he offered, about which he would arbi- trate. At first sight this seems to de- note inconsistency on the part of the British government, but in reality their course has been just the reverse. There is apparently just as much support for one line as another when they pass beyond the valley of the Essequibo. From Schomburgk down every line was entire ly arbitrary, and the constantly growing claims beyond the various lines offered was in entire keeping with the policy oi the British government Their object was to get as much new territory as they could, If the matter ever came to set artifice to delay"
 Asserting his belief that Great Britain had no claim to foot of land beyond the Essequibo, MT. Lodge laid down thu