The record-union., 1896-02-08
erritory on the western Hemisphere

territory on the Western Hemisphere
would imperil this Government.
When the commission appointed by
the President reported it would be am
pie time for the United States to act. II
it should then determine that the action
of Great Britain in acquiring territory
in Venezuela will imperil this Govern
ment by imperiling the rights of yene-
zuela, 1t would become the duty of this
Government to marshal all the re-
sources of it's people to resist the threat
ened invasion or actual invasion. If, on
the other hand, we shall determine,
after due investigation and deliberation,
that our interests would not be imper-
lied, it would be our duty to abstain
from any interference with the action
of Great Britain. He felt confident,
however, that the dispute over the
boundary line between Venezuela and
British Guiana was not for the primary
purpose of obtaining territory, but for
the purpose of gaining control of the
Orinoco River, which leads into one Of
the richest portions of South America.
If this was true, it would be our duty
to repel the aggressive action of that
nation.
In conclusion, Allen said: "If, unhap-
PLY, the time shall come, which God
grant it may not, that American valor
must again be displayed on the field of
battle in defense of American institu-
tions and against foreign greed and ag-
grandizement, we may confidently ex-
pect the sons of America to march un-
der the flag of the free, consecrated by
the blood of a hundred years to perma-
nent and glorious victory. Then for
every Grant there will be a Lee, for
every Sherman a Johnston, for every
Thomas a Jackson, for every Sheridan
Stuart, and Mason and Dixon's line will
be blotted from the map of the United
States, and true Americans, North and
South, welded by the blood of the Rev
olution, the war of 1912 and the war
with Mexico, renewed by the estrange-
ment Of 1861. as lovers know and inten-
sify their affections by estrangement,
soothed and sustained by a united and
splendid American womanhood, will
give to the world a lesson in valor that
it has never known before, and when the
end comes, as it surely will come, and the
storm that has rocked us in q great
civil strife for renewed American free
dom shall have subsided, and the ma
tion shall once more arise from the
ashes of its deadly conflict with the en-
emies of human liberty, crowned with
q new glory and encircled with a new
halo, shall we not play the songs of our
recent civil strife with the sacred mem
ories of other days?"
The joint resolution requiring the Sec
retary of Agriculture to carry out the
law for the purchase and distribution of
seeds was taken up, and Blanchard
Dem.) of Louisiana addressed the Sen
ate in support Of it. He found in Sec
retary Morton's action a parallel to that
of Comptroller Bowler in the sugar
bounty case.
Gray Dem) of Delaware expressed
his regret that the Senator from Louis
lana had seen fit in the able and scath
ing arraignment which he made of
the action of the First Comptroller in
setting at naught a law of Congress
passed without disapproval of the Pres
ident to linkwith it adenunciation of the
Secretary of Agriculture for not execut-
ing a law Of Congress.
The joint resolution went over with
out action at the close Of the morning
hour, and then the resolution offered by
Dubois (Rep.) of Idaho for an amend
ment Of the rules by the distribution Of
appropriation bills was laid before the
Senate.
Allison Rep.) of Iowa, Chairman Of
the Committee on Appropriations,
moved to refer the resolution to the
Committee on Rules. with instructions
to report it back with or without
amendment on the first Monday of De-
cember next. Carried.
on motion of Hansbrough (Rep) of
North Dakota, the joint resolution as to
seed distribution was made the unfin-
ished business for Monday next.
On motion of Hale (Rep) of Maine,
| it was ordered that the Secretary of the
Senate wait upon the President of the
United States and inform him that the
Senate had elected William P. Frye
President pro tempore, to hold and ex
ercise the Office in the absence of the
Vice President.
The Senate then, at 3:15 o'clock, ad-
lourned until Monday next.