The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-20
BOSTON IS READY TO FIGHT
COMMON COUNCIL UPHOLDS THE MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT.

Resolutions on the Same Matter Spoken
 Upon in the United States Senate-Sena-
 tor Hawley Takes n Hand in tho Diplo-
 matic Game-Lord Salisbury Did Not Go
 to London Yesterday.
 Washington, Dec. 19,-The house bill appropriating $lOO,OOO for the expenses of the proposed commission to Venez- uela was laid before the senate, and MT. Morgan, dema of Alabama, chair man of the committee on foreign rela- tions, favored the reference of the bill to the committee on foreign relations. But he should object to any such refer ence unless the senate agreed that it would take no recess until the com mittee should make it's report. For, while he would hasten slowly in the matter, he would still make. all necessa- ry speed.
 Senator sherman in a speech follow ing MT. Morgan did not disagree with him. He applauded the president for his message, but thought that the sen ate should proceed cautiously in this matter. The bill as passed by the house should be amended defined and limit ed. He endorsed the Monroe doctrine, but its application by this country to 8 specific case was a matter of the gravest importance to the whole civil fzed world. The controversy was a se- cious one, but MT. sherman said he be- lieved it would end peaceably. The Eng fish people would halt when they per ceived that the doctrine of Monroe was also asserted by Canning when prime minister. Mir. Sherman did not think the question should be postponed or de- layed, but the bill should at least be referred to proper committee.
 MT Morgan said he for one would en- ter protest against any attempt to adjourn until this matter was disposed of
 MT. Lodge thought congress ought not to adjourn for the holidays until the bill was disposed of. The interests of the United States as we'll of South Amer ican state were involved and the sub ject was of so grave a character that it might bring about hostilities between the two great English-speaking nations of the world. What is of vital import ance is that we should show the world we are not divided on this question, but deal with it as Americans, As Daniel Webster said, our politics stop at the waters edge. The English press and that small edition of it published in New York profess to see in this an electioneering dodge. Nothing can be further from the truth than this. We are standing together as one man with out regard to politics.
 Mr. Lodge had no desire to limit the executive; the house had by an over- whelming majority upheld his hand; the senate would do the same but it might desire to strengthen it. The world should know We were able to maintain the Monroe doctrine, not as principle of international law, but as an accom- plished fact. He would suggest and urge an amendment requiring the com mission to report on or before April 1, 1896 This would give notice to the world that we were proceeding deliber- atey: that We mean what we say, and are able to maintain our position.
 Mir Voorhees,, dem., of Indiana, urged that the bill be passed as it came from the house, and that the president ap- point the commission.
 q am willing," said he, "to join issue with Great Britain on this sub- feet, and as a preliminary step let us . look into the claim. England has al- ways been the oppressor of the weaker nation, and she has gradually encroach~ ed upon Venezuela without any right or show of right until she has taken hold of more territory than one of the great states of this republic. llook up- on war as horror, but there will be no war. England don't dare to fight; the commerce of the world is in English bottoms and she does not dare to sub ject it to peril It might as well be known now on both sides of the ocean that England's colonization career has to have some limit, and that this coun- try and it alone, shall dominate the continent on which it has been erected"
 MT. Allen, pop, of Nebraska, said that congress ought to name the commission, because congress was the only power that could declare war. At least the names of that commission should be sent to the senate for it's approval
 MT. Hawley said it was not wise to assume that great peoples will not fight and he regretted the exceedingly war like tone of the speech of the senator from Indiana. What the senate of the United States wanted was the facts, and they could only be had through a commission. The bill should go to the committee for careful consideration.
 MT. Hawley said that if the bill were sent to the committee various amend ments would be offered to it; for in stance, that the commissioners should be nominated and approved by the sen ate and that a time for final report should be fixed in the bill.
 MT. Chandler, rep, of New Hamp- shire, had the clerk read the memorial submitted to congress and the presi- dent last February on the part of Eng fish gentlemen to have a system of ar bitration established to prevent war.
 MT. Teller argued that the president had the power to determine the facts for himself and did not need to ask congress to appoint a commission. He said that the doctrine set forth in the message was not the doctrine of Mon- roe; it was the doctrine of American ism. If the president himself had de- cIared what the true boundary line was