The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-01-28
TO DECLARE THE DOCTRINE.
Resolution Presented to Congress I
Define Monroe Principle.

Resolution Presented to Congress to
! Define Monroe Principle.
/ WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-Iu the
/ Senate to-day Davis (R.) of Mime
/ sofa, OF the Committee of Foreign Re.
/ lations, arose as soon as the routine
proceedings Were disposed of and SUBJ
mitted favorable report on the reso
/ linton framed by him enunciating the
! Monroe doctrine. 1t was read from
the desk, receiving close attention.
The resolution, with preamble and
all, Is AS follows:
Concurrent resolution relative to
the assertion aud enforcement of the
Monroe doctrine:
Resolved, by the Senate, the House
of Representatives cOucurring, that
President Monroe, in his message to
Congress of December 2, 1923, deemed
1t proper TO assert as a principle in
which the rights and interests of the
United States are involved, that the
American continents, by the free and
Independent condition which thew
have assumed and maintained, were
thenceforth not to be considered as
subjects for future colonization by any
European power.
Whereas, President Monroe fur
ther declared in that message that
the United States would CONSIDER any
attempt by the allied powers of
Europe to extend their system to any
portion of this hemisphere as danger
GUS TO our peace and safety, that with
The existing colonies and dependen
cies of any European power We have
af.fI nj ..rfa nd hol ~ s.,N1
out that with the governments who
have declared their independence and
maintained 1t. whose Independence
We have, on great consideration and
on just principles acknowledged, we
could not view any interpositi0n for
the purpose OF expressing them or
controlling in any other manner their
destiny by any European power in
any other light than as a manifesto
ton of an unfriendly disposition to-
ward the United States, and further, |
reiterated in that message that it is |
Impossible That tue allied powers shall |
extend their present system to ANY |
portion OF either continent without |
endangerlng our peace and happiness,
and Whereas the 0octriue aud policy |
so proclaimed by President Monroe
have since been repeatedly asserted
by the United States by executive de
claration and action upon occasions
and eXigencies similar 10 the parti-
cular occasion and exigency which
caused them to first be announced
and have been eyer since their pro-
mitigation and now are the rightful
policy of the United States, therefore
be it
"ResOlved, That the United States
of America reaffirms and confirms the
doctrines and principles promulgated
by President Monroe in his message
of Dece 10 Der 2, 1923, and declares tisat
Ii will assent and maintain that doc
trine aud those principles, and will
regard any infringement thereof, aud
any attempt by any Eu-
ropean power, to take or acquire any
new territory Oh the American CONT
nents or any islands adjacent thereto,
for any right of sovereignty or do
miDlon in the same, in any case or
Instance as to which the United
States shall deem such attempt to be
dangerous to its peace or safety, by or
through force, purchase, cession, oc |,
cupaton, pledge, colonization, pro
tectOrate or by control OF easement Ia
4 canal or other means of transi
across the American isthmus, wbeth
er on unfounded pretensions of right
n cases of alleged boundary dispute
Or under other uDfounded pretensions,
rs the manifest action of an unfrieDd
y disposition toward the United
States, and as an interposition which
t would be impossible in any form for
he United States to regard with in
At Davis request the resolution
vent to the Senate calendar.
Gray 3D. of Delaware stated that
lie desired it understood that the IA
7orable report was not unanimous.
Walcott r. of Colorado gave notice
hat he would on Wednesday address
he Senate on Sewell's' resolution
pacing limitations on the Monroe
Doctrine.