The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-12-31
LODGE ON VENEZUELA
He Addresses the Senate on the Monroe
Doctrine and the Boundary Dispute.
THE ARTIFlCES OF GREAT BRITAIN.
E'ininIy Set Forth by Senator r.0dgc
EnSlnud'S Grnduni Encranch-
ncnI In the Caribbean Sca-IIcr Re
iusaI 10 Arbitrate-'Thc Question
OF Committee Control.

Washington. d. c., Dec. 3O.--(Senat te.)
among the papers presented and re-
ferrcd We're resolutions of the Lincoln
Post of the q. y. r.. of Topeka. Kan.
'tenucrinS their services" as Mr.. PEI
fer prefaccd 1t. in case we should have
any trouble with our ncighbors on the
other side of the Atlantic. They were
referred 10 the Committee on Foreign
Relations.
Mr. Voorhees, presented communi-
cation from the Charge D'Affaires. of
the Argentine Republic (now in Charge
of the legation in the absence Of the
Minister, on the subject OF CONNER
cial relations between that country and
the United States. and asked that IL be
referred tn the Committee on Finance.
The House bill as to bonds was laid
before the Senate, read twice and re-
ferrcd 10 the Finance Committee
Mir Mitchell URep). Of Oregon. ravc
notice that he would at the conclusion
of the remarks To be made to-day by
MIR. Lodge, ask the Senate to proceed to
the selection of the committees; also
that he would afterwards ask the SEN
ate 10 take from the table his. prorosi-
tion To impose II duty on wool for the
purpose OF enabling him to make some
remarks thereon.
The resolution heretofore offered by
Mr.. Quay. calling on the Secretary OF
the Navy for information as to whether
val Service to contract now for. six
hattleShips. Instead of two, was taken
up and agreed to.
Mr.. Lodge addressed the Senate on
the subject of the Monroe doctrine.
He said h. had intended not to do so
until the joint resolution introduced by
him, giving TO him the decara ion
made by Mr.. Monroe, in December
1929. the formal sanction of Congress-
had received the consideration of the
Committee on Foreign Relations. but
since then the President had sent in
his message on the Venezuelan difi-
Guilty ana Congress without dissent
ing voice had authorized the commits
sion which the President requested
This action had led to much wild talk
and cries more vocal than numerous
from those who believe we should never
do anything 10 clash with Enelands
interests. This outcry. coupled with
l-ondon's attempt TO friEhten Congress
by producing a stock panic had tended
to confuse the issue. He. therefore,
thought a little cool explanation would
not he out Of place.
Two cardinal principles. he said. had
always governed the United States in
their relations with foreign nations
The first was Washlngton's neutrality
doctrine, as laid down in the farewell
address. The second was the Monroe
doctrine. 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
tcrvcntion of England, France and
Spain in Mexico. I'm 1861. y sacond case
has now arisen and the maintenance of
the Monroe doctrine is again threatened
as 1t wls by the French in 1862 This
second attack upon the principle of the
Monroe doctrine comes from Great Bri-
tain and is made under cover of a
boundary dispute with Venezuela.
"In 1896 British Minister acinowl-
edged that Point Barima belonged TO
Venezuela by asking the Venezuelan
Government TO erect q lighthouse there
In 1910 n British court in Demarara de-
clared the territory of the Morocco. far
to the east Of the Orinoco. to be Yene-