The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-24

and most vindictive of newspapers which
attack silver men are published in New
York City, where for four score years
the worse elements of our foreign immi-
grafton have found lodgment and where
there have been more scandals in con-
nection with their city government and
elections than in any other spot in our
country
MONROE DOCTRINE.
At O'clock, Mr.. Dubois closed and
Mr. Daniel addressed the senate on the
Monroe doctrine. Senior Mendcnca, the
Brazilian minister, was an attentive
listener TO the speech As Mr.. Daniel
was about to begin Mr.. Aldrich (RepO
of Rhode Island, rose to inquire of Mr..
Jones, Of Arkansas, in charge OF the
silver bond bill, when a vote would be
taken, for, said Mr.. AIdrich, the Re-
publican senators were anxious to have
a vote taken.
Mr.. Jones replied that he had in
tended to ask unanimous consent that
some day next week be fixed for the
vote, but he would not interrupt the
senator from Virsinia.
1T will take only a moment" said
Mr.. Aldrich.
81 do not wish to interrupt the SEN
and Mr.. Daniel proceeded with his
speech.
To begin with, Senator Daniel held
that least Of all the nations of the
earth. could Great Britain fifty object
to the assertion of the Monroe doctrine
by the United States, for, in the Ian
guage of Edward Everett, it was an
nounced not merely with the approval
Of the British minister of foreign af-
! fairs. but had his earnest and Oft
repeated solicitation.
Least of all nations did it become her
to contend that it was not recognized
as international law because it was
not founded on the general consent of
nations, for Great Britain herself in
voked the United States to it's utter
ance not only without the consent, but
as well against the strong menaces of
! France, Austria, Russia and Prussia.
/ Least of all the nations could Great
/ Britain fairly controvert that govern
mental policy which underlay the Mon
roe doctrine, for she foremost and most
| conspicuously Of all nations had inter
! vened in the affairs of the world at
/ large, not only whenever her peace
and safety were even remotely IN
| volved, but also wherever and when
ever her capital could be invested. her
/ commerce expanded, or territorial ag
I grandizement be exercised.
Even as to the existing dispute with
! Venezuela, we perceive the outcropping
/ Of her own Monroe doctrine, so to
( speak, by her demand in a cession to
/ Venezuela, at one time proffered, that
no portion of the territory proposed to
! be coded should be alienated at any
/ time to a foreign power. And with no
1 better grace could Great Britain per
/ sist in repelling the manifold overtures
made to her for arbitration.
THE TWO SETS.
The senator referred to the two sets
4 of resolutions pending in the senate.
! Those proposed by the committe on
/ foreign relations he regarded as SIM
/ ply embodying a detailed statement Of
/ the Monroe doctrine as embraced in
( the more general language in which
/ it was uttered. The resolutions offered
/ by the senator from New Jersey
/ seemed to him NIr. DanieD to misin-
! terpret the history and to pervert the
plain language of the Monroe doctrine.
/ The charge that the presidents &C
/ ton was premature and imprudent in
/ view OF our business and financial con-
/ dition seems to me superficial criti-
cism. The financial crisis may last
! five or ten years more. Meantime, are
/ the United States to take no cogniz-
ance of great affairs but sit down SUI
pinely and let the wide world wag at
! its will? The declaration that the ex-
\ ecutive commits US to a protectorate
( over Mexico and the Central and South
4 American states is far fetched. The
/ senator then showed how the
doctrine. mad been upheld by
various presidents. The civil war, vast
/ and engrossing as it was, had caused
no interruption in the assertion of the
\ Monroe doctrine and under most diff
cult and trying circumstances the ma
4 ton still held alOft that ori1amme
Mr.. Daniels closed at o'clock, be
ing accorded hearty applause. in which
/ senators joined with spectators.
REQUEST REFUSED.
Mr.. Jones Dem. Ark) asked unan-
inlous consent that vote be taken on
4 the pending bond silver bill on Thurs
/ day next.
Mr.. Chandler thought the request
/ better go over until tomorrow and this
/ was aSsented to.
At O'clock the senate went into ex-
ecutive session, and az $40 pm. ad-
/ jOurned.