Evening journal., 1896-01-21

pointed q messenger. A fow other appoint
ments win be made hereafter as a need
for further help appears. It was ordered
that the rooms Of the commission be kept
open every week day from @ till o'clock.
and any person who has any suggestion to
make TO the work will be accorded an op-
portunity to be heard, for at least one Of
the commission will undertake to be pres
ont besides the secretary. Every Friday
there will be q meeting of the full com
mission in order TO transact routine bust
moss requiring the action Of all the mem-
bcrs.
The members will not be idle, fer to
zach has been allotted particular line Of
inquiry, which he is expected TO report up
on TO his fellow commissioners at inter
walls. For instance Mr. White has been
charged with the preparation of what may
be likened to an abstract Of title, Mr. Gil
man has undertaken the preparation Of
all of the maps and charts required, and
other members have been called upon to
collect from the library Of the department
OF state and the library OF congress all of
the documents and historical maps and
papers bearing upon the Venezuelan
boundary question.
The effort will DO to have these inqui-
ries proceed simultaneously and apace, and
IL is felt that by adopting this order much
time will be saved, an important consider
alton If the commission is not aided by
Great Britain and Venezuela.
The Monroe Doctrine.
The following is the full text Of Senator
Davis resolution defining the Monroe doc
trine
Concurrent resolution relative to tho
assertion and enforcement of the Monroe
doctrine.
"ResolySsi by the senate, the house Of
representatives concurring, That as Pres
ident Monroe in his message TO congress
Of Dec ., Ammo Domini 1928, deemed 10
proper to assert as principle, in which
the rights and interests of the United
States are involved, that the American con
tinents, by the free and independent con-
dltion which they have assumed and main
tanned, were thenceforth not to be consid-
cred as subjects for future colonization
by any European power;
Whereas, President Monroe further de-
clared I'm that message that the United
States would consider any attempt by the
allied powers Of Europe to extend their
system 60 any portion Of this hemisphere
as dangerous 20 our peace and safety; that
with the existing colonies and depend
encies of any European power we have
not intorfered and should not interfere,
but that with the governments who have
declared their independence and main
tained it, whose independence we have on
great consideration and on just principles
acknowledged, we could not view any in
terposition for the purpose of depressing
them or controlling in any other manner
their destiny by any European power in
any other light than as the manifestation
Of an unfriendly disposition toward tho
United States, and further reiterated in
that message that it is impossible that al
lied powers should extend their political
system to any portion Of either continent
without endangering our peace and happi-
ness; and,
"Whoreas, The doctrine and policy so
proclaimed by President Monroe have
since been repeatedly asserted by the Unit
cd States by executive declaration and ac-
tion upon occasions and exigenoios similar
to the particular occasion and exigenoy
which caused them to bo first announced,
and have been ever since their promulga-
tion and now are the rightful policy Of
the United States;
''Therefore be it resolved that the Unit
ed states OF America rcalllfms ana con-
firms the doctrines and principles promul-
gated by President Monroe in his message
of Dec. IL, 1923, and declares that 10 will
assert and maintain that doctrine and
those principles and will regard any in
fringement thereof and particularly any
attempt by any European power to take or
acquire any new territory on the American
continents or any islands adjacent thereto
for any right of sovereignty or dominion
in the same, in any case or instance as to
which the United States shall deem such
attempt 20 be dangerous to its peace or
safety, by or through force purchase, ces-
sion, occupation, pledge colonization,
protectorate or by control Of the easement
in canal or any other means of transit
across the American isthmus, whether on
unfoundod pretension Of right in cases Of
alleged boundary disputes or under other
unfoundod protensions as the manifesto
tion OF AN unfriondly disposition toward
the United States and as an intcrposition
which Il would be impossible in any form
for the United States to regard with in
difference"
British Press Comments.
LONDON, Jan. 21-The Chronicle says: