The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-21
LAID ASIDE.
MONROE DOCTRINE.

Mr.. Davis (Rep.) Mimi, of the commit
tee on foreign relations, arose as soon
as the routine proceedings were disposed
Of. and submitted a favorable report on
the resolution framed by him enunciat-
ing 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 and enforcement Of the Monroe
doctrine.
Resolved, by the senate, the house Of
representatives concurring, that whereas
President Monroe. in his message to
congress Of December, Ammo Domini,
1923 deemed 1t prOper to assert as a prin-
ciple in which the rights and interests
of the United States are involved, that
the American continents by the free
and independent condition which they
nave assumed ana maintained were
thenceforth not to be considered as sub
iects for future colonization by any Eu-
ropean power.
Whereas. President Monroe further
declared in that message that the United
States would consider any attempt by
the alleged powers Of Europe TO extend
their system 10 any portion of this hem
isphere as dangerous to our peace and
safety; that with the existing colonies
and dependencies of any European power
we have not interfered and shall not in
terfere. but that with the governments
who have declared their Independence
and maintained it, whose independence
we nave on great consideration and on
just principles, acknowledged, we could
not view any 1nterpOSltlOn for the pur-
pose of expressing them or controlling
IN any other manner their destiny by any
European power, IN any other light than
as a manifestation Of an unfriendly dis
position toward the United States; and
further reiterated in that message that
il is impossible that the allied powers
shal defend their present system to any
Goruoh OF either continent without en-
dangering our peace and happiness; and
whereas. the doctrine and policy so
proclaimed by President Monroe have
since been repeatedly asserted by the
United States, but executive declaration
and action upon occasions and exigencies
similar te the particular occasion and
eXigency Which caused them to first be
announced and have been ever since
their pronunciation. and now are the
l1ghtful policy of the United States
Therefore. Be it resolved, that the
United States OF America reaffirm and
confirms the doctrines and principles
promulgated by President Monroe in his
message on December ,. 1923 and declares
* will assert and maintain that doctrine
and those principles and win regard any
lnfrlngement thereof and particularly
any attempt by any European power to
take or acquire any new territory on the
American continent, or any islands ada
cent thereto, for any right of sovereignty
or dominion in the same and in any case
or instance as to which the United States
shall deem such attempt to be danger
Gus TO its peace and saf&y, by or throuh
force, purchase, cession oCcupatioD
pledge. colonial ton, prOtectOrate or bV
control Of easement in canal or other
means Of transit across the American
lsthmus, whether on the unfounded pre-
tension Of rights in the case of alleged
boundary disputes. or under other nm
founded pretentious. as manifesto ton
Of an Unfriendly disposition towards the
united States and as an interposition
which 1t would be impossible in any form
Tor the United States to regard with in
difference