New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-01-01
ON THE MONROE DOCTRINE.

Mr.. Lodge of Massachusetts Addresses
4 the Senate
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-After some
routine business in the senate, MIR.
Lodge (Rep., Mass.,) took the floor to
deliver an address on the Monroe doc
trine. Before he began, Mr. Mitchell
(Rep., Or. chairman of the Republican
caucus committee, gave notice that at
the completion of Mr.. Lodges remarks,
he should ask the senate to take up the
question of recognizing the committees
of the senate.
A resolution offered by Mr. Quay
fRep., Penn. was adopted, directing the
secretary of the navy to inform the
senate whether, in his opinion,i it would
be advantageous to the naval service to
now contract for six battleships instead
of for the two at present authorized on
the basis oil bids now before the navy
the public interest.
Mr.. Lodge gave an interesting sketch
of the history Of the Monroe doctrine
and told how it was virtually involved
in the Venezuelan boundary line con-
troversy. He followed this with brief
relation of the pending dispute between
Great Britain and Venezuela which, he
said had now reached crisis affecting
most gravely the honor, the interests,
the rights and the we'll settled policy Of
the United States.
If England, with no authority but a
disputed claim, seized, territory and de-
clined arbitration upon it, her action,
he declared, did not differ from Selling
and holding new territory in the Amer
icas by right of conquest. If she could
seize territory under claim which had
grown larger with each succeeding
year, there was nothing to prevent her
taking indefinite regions in South
America.
Questions Should Not Be Mixed.
The senator referred to the claim
made on Venezuela by Great Britain
by the authorities Of the former country,
of British subjects on the disputed ter
ritory. But the question Of PREPARATION,
he declared, must not be mixed up with
the acquisition of territory. If Vene-
zuela paid the indemnity fixed and de-
manded by Great Britain, she &C.
knowledged in so doing that the dis
puted country is British territory, and
made the whole case void. We had, he
continued, neglected too long our for
eign policy and the great interests of
the United States which lay beyond her
borders. We wanted the matter Of the
boundary dispute settled by arbitration,
because if it is settled otherwise, it was
blow to vital principles to the well
fare and dignity Of the United States
He did not believe the people of Eng
land had the least desire to engage in
hostilities with the United States, any
more than we sought Or desired hostil-
tiles with them.
Have Not Happened by Accident.
1--WE have, said Senator Lodge, ''seen
British forces at COrinto We know the
attitude they assume in Venezuela.
They are attempting to take land on the
Alaskan boundary. They have just de-.
nounced the modus vivendi and re-
opened in that way the perilous dispute
of the seal fisheries. It lis not by acct
dent that these events have all occurred
or all come to an accute stage within
the past year,
The senator closed by expressing the
belief that the questions between Eng
Land and the United States would be
peaceably settled, but it was very clear
that such settlement could only be
reached by action on the part Of con-
gress and the president, which should
be as firm as it was temperate, and
which should maintain the Monroe doc
trine absolutely and at all hazards,
wherever it justly applied.