The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-01-25
THE new MONROE DOCTRINE
Resolution Of the Committee on
Foreign Relations.
Placed on the Calendar--The Presi-
dent Submits the Bayard Cor
respondence to the House
Of Representative.

Washington, Jan. 20.-In the senate
today numerous petitions were pre-
scented and referred to committees In
favor of the Stone bill, relating TO Inn
migration, raising the level of theg great
lakes. service pensions, the recognition
of Cuban be~lligerency, The redeeming
of ~greenbacks and relating to the
Transyaal republic.
MI. Davis, e p Minnesota, from the
committee on foreign relations, report
ed q preamble and resolution on the
Monroe doctrine as follows
Resolved, by the senate, the house of
representa- lives concurring, that,
Whereas, President Monroe, in his
message to congress December 2, ammo
domini 1929, deemed 1t proper to as
sert 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 they have assumed n MAIN
tained, were thenceforth not to be con-
sidered as subjects for future %coloniza-
ton by any European power, II
Whereas, President Monroe further
declared in that message that the
United States would consider any at
tempt by the allied powers of Europe to
extend their system to any portion of
this hemisphere as dangerous to II
peace and safety. that with the exist
ing colonies and dependencies Of any
European power, we have not Inter
fered and should not interfere, but that
with the governments who have de-
clared their independence and MAIN
tained it and whose Independence we
have on great consideration and great
principles acknowledged, we could not
view any interposition for the purpose
of Expressing them, or controlling in
any other manner their destiny, by any
European power, in any other light
than as the manifestation of an I'M
friendly disposition towards the United
States and further reiterated In that
message that 1t is impossible that the
allied powers should extend their politi-
cal system to n portion of either con-
tinent without e%ndangerlng our peace
and happiness, and
Whereas. The doctrine and policy so
proclaimed by President Monroe have
since been repeatedly asserted by the
United States, by executive declaration
and exactfon upon occasions n ext
gencies similar to the particular occa-
sion n exigency which caused them to
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since their PRONUNCIATION and now are
the rightful policy of the United States:
therefore be it
Resolved, That the United States Of
America reaffirms and confirms the doc
trine and principles promulgated by
President Monroe in his message Of
December 2, 1923. and declares that 1t
will assert and maintain the doctrine
and those principles and will regard any
infringement thereof, and particularly
any attempt by any European power to
take or acquire any new additional ter
ritory on the American continent, or
any island adjacent thereto, or any
right or sovereignty, or dominion 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
cession, occupation, pledge, COLOMBIA
ton, protectorate, or by control of cas-
ment in TN canal or any other means
OF transit across the American isthmus,
whether under u%nfounded pretension of
right in cases of alleged boundary dis
putes, or under any other unfounded dis
position toward the United States and
as an interposition which 1t would be
impossible, in any form, for the United
States to regard with indifference.
The concurrent resolution was placed
on the calendar, Mr.. Gray, DEM, Della
ware, a member of the committee on
foreign relations stating the report was
Aot an unanimous one.
The resolution heretofore offered by
Mr.. Sewell, rep, New Jersey, placing
limitations on the Monroe doctrine and
condemning the presidents message OIL
the subject, vas taken up and MIR. Sew
ell addressed the senate upon it.