The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-20
KEEP OFF
Is the Clear Command of the
United States Senate
To All European Powers Reach
ing Greedy Hands
For Dominion in the New
World.
MONROE DOCTRINE
Amplified and Strengthened by
the Resolution
Presented by the Senate Com
mittee Today.
IONROE DOCTRINE

WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator Davis,
of the senate COMMITTEES on foreign re-
lations today reported faverably the res
olution enunciating the Mon roe doc
trine.
1t is the result of the lengthy con-
sideration of the committee on the ad-
visa ability of incorporating the Monroe
doctrine in the federal statutes.
The resolution rscites In detail the
original attitude of President Monroe,
and states the long acquiesence in its
execution It reaffirms these doc
trines and declares that the
United States will support the position
declared by President Monroe 1t will
furthermore regard any extension OF for
eign dominion in this hemisphere, either
on the main land or outlying islands, or
toward the control of any isthmian canal,
as a manifestation of unfriendliness tow
ard the United States which it will be i'm
possible for the United States to regard
with Indifference.
The report went to the calendar.
Mr.. Gray announced that the report
was not unanimous.
The resolution, 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 concurrlng, that where
as President Monroe in his message
to congress of December I'd,
ammo dolnini 1928, deemed it proper to
assert as principle in which tho rights
and interests of the United States are in
volVed, that American continents by the
free and independent condition which
they have assumed and maintained, were
~f-~~e Aa<. u
jects for future scofonization by any
European power.
Whereas, President Monroe further de-
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
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 that with
the governments who declared their in
dependence and maintained it, whose in
dependence we have on great considera-
tiou and~ on jnst principles acknowl-
edged we could not view any interposi-
tion for the purpose of depressing them
or controlling in any other manner their
destiny by any European power in any
other than as the manifestation of an
unfriendly disposition toward the
United States; and further re-
iterated in that message that
it is impossible that the allied powers
should extend their political system to
any portion of either continent without
endangering our peace and happiness;
and
Whereas, The doctrine and policy so
proclaimed by President Monroe has
since been repeatedly asserted by the
United States by executive declaration
and action upon occasion and exigencies
similar to the particular occasion and
exigency which caused them first to be
announced and have been ever since
their promulgation and now are the
rightful policy of the United States.
Therefore be it Resolved, That the
United States of America reaffirms and
confirms the doctrines and principles
promulgated by President Monroe in his
message of December 2, 1928, and de-
clares that it will assert and maintain
that doctrine and those principles, and
will regard any infringement
thereof and particularly any
attempt by any European power to take
or acquire territory on the American
continent, or any islands adjacent there
to for any right of sovereignty or do
minion in the same, in any case, or in
stance, as to which the United States
shall demand such attempt to be danger
Gus to its peace. safety or by or
through force, purchase, occupation,
cession, pledge. colon cation, protec-
torate or by control of the ease
ment in canal or any other
means of transit across the American
isthmus, whether on unfounded preten-
sion or right in cases of alleged boundary
disputes, or under other unfounded pre-
tensions, as the manifestation of an un-
friendly disposition toward the United
States and as an interpretation which it
would be impossible in any form for the
United States to regard with indiffer-