The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-21
The Report Not Unanimous and
So It Is Placed on the
Calendar.
sEWELL TALKS FOR LIMITATION.
Passage of the Bill to Support Schools
of Mines in the Pacific Coast
States.


decision of the Senate Committee on For
eign Relations as TO the extent and mean
Ing of the Monroe doctrine, and as to its
applicability to the Venezuelan dispute,
was presented to the Senate to-day
through Davis (R.) of Minnesota, by
whom it vas originally drawn up in the
shape of a concurrent resolution. 1t
makes both houses of Congress reaffirm
and confirm the Monroe doctrine and its
principles, and declares that the United
States Will deem any attempt by Eu-
ropean power to acquire new or additional
territory on the American continents or
adjacent islands, or any easement in any
interocean canal, as dangerous to the
peace and safety of the United States One
member of the Committee on Foreign Re-
lations, Gray Cd Of Delaware, remarked
that it was not the unanimous report of
the committee. The concurrent resolu-
ton was placed on the calendar without
discussion.
The subject, however, came up immedi-
ately afterward in the shape of the resolu-
ton offered last week by SeweIl (R.1 OF
New Jersey limiting the application of the
Monroe doctrine and condemning the
Venezuelan message of President Cleve-
land as unwise and inopportune. Sewell
addressed the Senate in support of his
resolution and argued that President
Cleveland's position was far in advance of
what was contemplated in the Monroe
doctrine, and that the effect of it would be
the establishment of protectorate over
Mexico and over each of the South Amer
lean and Central American States. No
action was taken on Sewelps resolution,
but Senators Wolcott (R.) of Colorado and
Daniel Cd of Virginia gave notice of their
intention to address the Senate upon it
next " edneSday and Thursday.
No progress was made upon the House
bond bill with the free-coinage substitute
reported from the Committee on Finance.
Jones Cd OF Arkansas, who has charge of
it, gave as reason for not pushing it the
fact that several Senators who desired to
speak upon it were not yet prepared, and
wanted more time to get their speeches,
but Hill CD of New York limited that the
vote was kept back until after the election
of the two Senators from Utah.
Numerous petitions were presented in the
morning hour and referred to committees
in favor of the Stone bill relating to immi-
grafton, raising the level of the Great
Cuban belligerency, the redeeming of
greenbacks and relating to the TransvaaI
republic.
Davis (R.) of Minnesota, from the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations, reported a
preamble and resolution reafirming the
Monroe doctrine, and declaring that the
United States would assert and maintain
the doctrine as follows:
Resotved, By the Senate the House of Repre-
sentatiyes concurring, that whereas President
Monroe in his message to Congress OF Deem
Der 2, A. D. 1928, deemed it proper to assert as
principle in which the rights and interests of
the United States are involved that the Ameri-
can continents, by the free and independent
condition which they have assumed and main
tanned, were theneeforth not 10 be considered
as subjects for future colonization by any Euro
pean power; and whereas, President Monroe
further 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
dangerous to our peace and safety that with
the existing colonies and dependencies of any
European power we have not interfered and
should not interfere, but with the governments
who have declared their independence we have
on great consideration and just principles ac-
knowledged we could not view any interposi-
controlling in any other manner their destiny,
by any European power in any other light
than as the manifestation of an unfriendly
disposition toward the United States, and fur
ther reiterated in that message that it is i'm |
possible that the allied powers should extend
their political system to any portion of each
continent without endangering our peace and |
happiness. And, whereas, the doctrine and |
policy 80 proclaimed by President Monroe |
have since been repeatedly asserted by the |
United States, by executive declaration and |
evacuation upon occasions and exigencies |
similar to the particular occasion and ext |
gency which caused them to be first an
nounced, and have been ever since their pro- |
mitigation and are now the rightful policy of |
the United States. Therefore, be it
Resolued, That the United States of America |
reaffirns and confirms the doctrine and prin-
ciples promulgated by President Monroe in his |
message of December, 1928, and declares that |
it will assert and maintain the doctrine and |
those principles and will regard any infringe |
ment thereof and particularly any attempt by |
any European power to take or acquire any |
new or additional territory 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 safety, or by or |
through force, purchase, cession, occupation, |
pledge. colonization, protectorate, or by con |
troll of the easement in any canal or any other |
means of transit across the American isthmus
whether under unfounded pretension of right |
in cases of alleged boundary disputes, or under |
any other unfounded disposition toward the |
United States, and as an interposition which it |
would be impossible in any form for the |
United States to regard with Indifference.
The concurrent resolution was placed on |
the calendar, Gray CD of Delaware, a |
member of the Committee on Foreign Re- |
lations, stating that the report was not |
unanimous one.
Wolcott (R.) of Colorado gave notice |
that he would address the Senate on the |
Sewell resolution relative to the Monroe |
doctrine on Wednesday next.
Warren (R. of Wyoming offered reso-
luton looking to legislation for the pres
ervation of American herds and hocks, |
and said that he would address the Senate |
upon it next Thursday.
The resolution heretofore offered by |
Sewell (R.) of New Jersey, placing limita- |