The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-02-13
THE SENATE - PURCHASE AND
DISTRIBUTION OF SEED WILL
PROCEED AS HERETOFORE.
BLANCHARD ON MONROE DOCTRINE.
in Favor of the Doctrine-House
Wrestles With the District of
Columbia Report.


day passed bill giving the city of
Charleston, S. c., the use of the old post
Office building for municipal purposes.
Senator Quay's resolution to recon-
NIT the tariff bill went over.
The long pending resolution which has
brought out much criticism of the Sec
rotary of agriculture, was passed with
out division. The measure was amended
so as to provide that the purchase and
distribution of seed shall proceed as here
| tofore.
Mr.. Blanchard Dem) of Louisiana
was then recognized for speech ON the
Monroe doctrine.
The senator strongly commended the
president for the reassertion on ali en-
larged basis of the Monroe doctrine and
| advocated that it be given the sanction of
| legislative endorsement. He said the
| time had come for such a declaration by
congress broad, bold and comprehensive,
not made in anger or menacingly, but
| firm. The senator's speech, while bold
and firm, was in good temper and evinced
| a spirit of kindred, friendship and peace
toward what he termed ''our cis-Atlantic
| cousins"
Among other things he said:
1.-The United States is expected to stand
| aloof from entangling alliances with Eu-
ropean powers. We are to have, it seems,
nothing to do with European, Asiatic,
| African or Australian concerns. We
| have heretofore steadily adhered to this
| line of policy.
Shut out of participation in Euro
pean policies, neither asking nor being
| invited to take part in the same, are We
| too, to be deprived of the right to pre-
scribe and dominate an American policy?
| On this point the people of the United
States are especially sensitive, and it is
not confined to any section or class of
| our people. 1t pervades alike, it leaps
over party lines and rises above party
feeling. On the Atlantic seaboard in
the northwest the cause of conservatism
of capital and the fears of business dis
turbances may for moment stay this
feeling, but those who count upon this
for the display of extreme forbearance
on our part, may find themselves greatly
in error. Go ask the people of the great
West and those of the reviying South and
they will tell you that the time has come
for Broadening of the scope of the Mon
roe doctrine and for much more enlarged
application of 1t.
'Sevnty-three years ago when this
doctrine was first proclaimed the popu-
| lation of the United States was little
more than 100000 from 100000 peo-
pie then we have multiplied to 10000
| 600. From meager resources we have
plowed and planted, delved and Mined
commenced and manufactured, builded
and constructed our way to enormous
] aggregate wealth. We do not have to
Ike demonstration on land or sea
| to proclaim our power or mark our readi-
| ness for war. This republic is not to act
the big brother to each turbulent or revo-
| lutionary republic or island in the western
hemisphere and convulse the world about
| matters of far less Importance than
many that arise in our own country. But
it does behOove us to proclaim a distinc-
tive American pOlicy-a b1oad, compre-
hensive policy that includes within its
scope the three Americas-North, Cen
trail and South.
1.-THE united States stands at the head
of American sisterhood of States. She
has an interest at once directly vital in
the settlement of every question that can
arise affecting any position of the Ame;i-
can continent or any one of the free
States ON the continent. Indeed she has
an interest in the settlement of every Ma
tional or international question that can
arise in the western hemisphere. Nor
does this position on our part initiate
against the right of any government to
protect its citizens in any part of Ameri-
Ctt VI W eHloICe pay llenl Ol ueDlS OF 10
claim indemnity for wrongs. The Mon
roe doctrine even in its present proposed
enlarged scope, is not to be extended to
interfere with the business relations be-
tween the American republics and Eu-
rope.
1--WE would not interfere if war broke
out and such countries were overrun by
foreign troops. But neither as the re-
suit of such war, nor as the result of
m ftnn tty
power acquire addition territory in
America. War waged by England or by
other European powers with South or
Central American countries on any just
ground is no concern of ours. Only such
war must not be one of conquest. And
the war ended, foreign troops must with
in reasonable time evacuate.
"The Central and South American
States desiring our aid to prevent ac-
QUESTION by conquest of any of their ter
ritory by stronger powers, can not object,
if we insist, that neither shall they dis
pose of their territory to foreign powers
by treaty or other negotiations. 1t is
poor rule that will not work both ways"
Mr.. Allen POpD of Nebraska replied
briefly to Mr.. Vests criticisms of the
secretary of agriculture. Mr.. Allen con-
tended that any usual allowance of seeds
made by the secretary to Nebraska was
due to the drought there.
A discussion of Secretary Carlisle's OBJ
servance of civil service methods came up
on a provision of deficiency of the appro-
priation bill on the appointment of % ex-
pert money counters.
Mr.. Chandler sarcastically pointed out
that in the secretary's letter requesting
the counters, he asked that he be given
the selection, as the civil service commits
sion was not able to furnish the class of
counters desired.
1t was thus discovered, said Mr.. Chand- |
Ter, that the civil service examination
had broken down and was so feeble and
delapidated that it could not furnish
money counters.
Mr.. Lodge (Rep.) of MASSACHUSETTS
said there was no decrepitude in the civil |
service commission. This request of the |
secretary was due to his desire to CON
troll the appointments.
Mr.. Allen arraigned the civil service |
system. 1t would in time turn over our
government service to a lot of Cigarette
smoking dudes.''
Mr.. .Walcott interjected brief, but
somewhat sensational speech. He said |
the real menace to the country was the !
power of patronage used by the ex-
ecutive and which had never before been
used to such an extent as under the pres
ent administration
A free coinage bill would have passed |
the last house of representatives, had not
the power of patronage been brought to