Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-24

mission in order to transact routine bust
ness requiring the action Of all the MEM
bers
The members will not be idle, for TO
each has been allotted a particular line of
inquiry, which he Is expected to report up
on to his fellow commissioners at inter
walls. For instance, Mr.. White has been
charged with the preparation Of what may
be likened to an abstract of title, Mr.. Gil
man has undertaken the preparation of
all of the maps and charts required, and
other members have been called upon to
collect from the library OF the department
OF state and the library OF congress all of
the documents and historical maps and
papers bearing upon the Venezuelan
boundary question.
The effort will be TO have these inuui-
ries proceed simultaneously and apace, and
1t Is felt that by adopting this order much
time will be saved, an important consider
alton II the commission Is not aided by
Great Britain and Venezuela.
The Monroe Doctrine.
The follosing is the full text Of Senator
Davis resolution defining the Monroe doc
trine:
Concurrent resolution relative to the
assertion and enforcement of the Monroe
doctrine
"Resolved by the senate, the house Of
representatives concurring, That as Pres
ident Monroe in his message TO congress
of Dec. 2, Ammo Domini 1923, deemed IL
proper TO assert rs principle, in which
the rights and interests of the United
States are involved that the American con-
tinents, by the free and independent con
dition which they have assumed and main
tained, were thencoforth not to be consid-
cred rs subjects for future colonization
by any EufOpcan power;
Whereas, President Monroe further dc.
clared 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
rs dangerous To our peace and safety; that
with the eNsting colonies and depend
encies Of any European poweB we have
not interfered and should not interfere,
but that with the governments who have
declared their independence and main
tained 1t, whose Independence we have on
great consideration and on just principles
acknowledged, we could not view any in
terposition for the purpose of depressing
them or controlling in any other manner
their destiny by any European power in
bbllbl llBlb bilhl hh Iit manifestation
of an unfriendly disposition toward the
United States, and further reiterated in
that message that It is impossible that al
lied powers should extend their political
system to any portion of either continent
without endangering our peace and happi-
ness; and,
Whereas, The doctrine and policy so
proclaimed by President Monroe have
since been repeatedly asserted by the Unit
ed States by executive declaration and ac-
tion upon occasions and exigencies similar
to the particular occasion and exigency
which caused them to be first announced,
and have been ever since their promulga-
tion and now are the rightful policy of
the United States;
Therefore be it resolved that the Unit
ed States of America reaflirms and con-
firms the doctrines and principles promul-
gated by President Monroe in his message
of Dec. ~, 1928, and declares that it will
assert and maintain that doctrine and
those principles and will regard any in
fringement thereof and particularly any
attempt by any European power to take or
acquire any new territory on the American
continents or any islands adjacent thereto
for any right of 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, by or through force, purchase, ces-
sion, occupation, pledge, colonization,
protectorate or by control Of the easement
in canal or any other means of transit
across the American isthmus, whether on
unfounded pretension of right in cases of
| alleged boundary disputes or under other
unfounded pretensions, rs the manifesto
tion of an unfriendly disposition toward
the United States and as an interposition
which it would be impossible in any form
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