The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-12-27
CLEVELAND'S SPECIAL MESSAGE
TO CONGRESS.
GREAT BRITAIN MUST RECEDE Or
TAKE CONSEQUENCES.
Full synopsis of the Correspondence
That Has Passed Between the Two
Nntions-The Monroe Doctrine strong
Iy Defended-E Emergency Commission
Asked For.

international Press Association Service0
Washington, ID. c., Dec 17.-President
Cleveland this morning sent TO congress
the following message on the Nehe-
zuelan dispute:
To the congress: In my annual mes
sage addressed to the congress on the
Sd instant, L called attention to the
pendingfboundary controversy between
Great Britain and the republic OF Ven
ezuela and recited the substance or a
representation made by this govern
ment TO her Britannia majesty's govern
snent, suggesting reasons why such dis
pute should be submitted to arbitration
for settlement and inquiring whether
il would be so submitted. The answer
of the British government, which was
then awaited, has since been received,
and, together with the dispatch 70 which
il is a reply, is hereto appended. such
reply Is embodied in two communica-
tions addressed by the British prime
minister to Sir Julian Pauncefote, the
British ambassador at this capital.
1t will be seen that one of these com
munications is devoted exclusively 10
observations upon the Monroe doctrine
and claims that in the present instance
new and strange extension and devel-
opment of this doctrine is insisted upon
by the United States, that the reasons
justifying an appeal to the doctrine
enunciated by President Monroe are
involving the boundary line between
Great Britain and Venezuela.
Without attempting extended arSu-
ments I'm reply to these positions II may
not be amiss to suggest that the doc
trinc upon which we stand is strong and
sound because its enforcement is impor-
tant to our peace and safety as 10 ma
ton and is essential to the integrity of,
our free institutions and the tranquil
maintenance of our distinctive form OF
government. 1t was intended to apply
10 every stage OF our national life and
cannot become obsolete while our re-
public endures. If the balance of power
is Justly a cause for jealous anxiety
among the governments of the old world
and subject for our absolute non-in-
terfereuce. none the less Is an observ-
ance of the Monroe doctrine Of vital
concern to our people and their govern
ment
Applicable to Present Time.
Assuming. therefore, that we may
properly insist upon this doctrine with
out regard to "the state of things in
which we live or any changed condi-
lions here or elsewhere, IL is not APP
parent why it's application may not be
invoked In the present controversy. II
a European power, by an extension of
its boundaries, takes possession of the
territory of one of our neighboring re-
ton of it's rights. ii is difficult to see
why, to that extent. such European
power does not thereby attempt to eX
tend it's system of government to that
portion of this continent which is thus
taken. This is nhe precise action which
President Monroe declared to be dan
gerous TO our peace and safety" and it
can make no difference whether the Eu-
ropean system is extended by an ad-
vance of frontier or otherwise.
1t is ALSO suggested in the British re-
ply that we should not seek to apply
the Monroe doctrine to the pending dis
pute because IL does not embody any
principle of international law which lis
founded on the general consent of ma
TONS" and that mo statesman, how
ever eminent, and no nation, however
powerful, are competent to insert into
the code of international law a novel
principle which was never recognized
before and which has not since been
accepted by the government of any
other country"
Practically. the principle for which We
contend has peculiar IL not exclusive
relation to the United States. 1t may
not have been admitted i'm so many
words to the code of international law,
but since. i'm international councils,
every nation is entitled to the rights be-
longing TO it, IL the enforcement of the
Monroe doctrine is something we may
Justly claim, it has it's place in the code
of international law as certainly and as
surely as IL il were specifically men
toned. and when the United States is
a sutton before the high tribunal that
administers international law the ques-
tion to be determined Is whether or not
we present claims which the justice of