The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-01-10
IODGESCORES JOHN B.
SPEAKS ON THE MONROE
DOCTRINE.
He 10 IN Favor OF a Firm Stand for It's En-
forcemcnt--England's Greed for Territory
Tho g. A. +. offers Aid in Case of War
-America's Rights.

large OF SenatOr to-day
in anticipation of the vote on the re-
organization of the senate, and the
galleries were well filed with holiday
spectators. Mr.. PETER, of Kansas,
presented resolutions from several G.
A. r. posts in Kansas offering their
services to the United States in the
event of war with Great Britain.
Mr.. Chandler, of New Hampshire,
who has been waging wal against the
interstate m commission for
not putting a stop to pooling arrange
ments, introduced a bill to enlarge
the Interstate commission
and modify and increase the scope OF
it's powers.
Mr.. Lodge Of Massachusetts then
took the floor to deliver an address on
the Monroe doctrine. Before he began,
Mr.. Mitchell of Oregon, chairman Of
the Republican caucus committee,
gave notice that at the completion of
Mr.. Lodges remarks he should ask the
Senate to AXE up the question of reor-
ganizing the committees of the Sen
ate.
A resolution offered by Mr.. Quay Of
Pennsylvania was adopted, directing
the Secretary of the Navy to inform
the Senate whether, in his opinion, it
would be advantageous to the naval
service to contract now for six battle
ships instead Of for the two at present
authorized, on the basis of the bids
now before the navy department..
Mr.. Lodges address was listened to
with attention by the Senate. He
gave an interesting sketch of the his
tory of the Monroe doctrine and told
how it was vitality involved in the
Venezuelan boundary line controversy.
He followed this with a brief relation
of the pending dispute between Great
Britain and Venezuela, which he said
had now reached a 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 o
disputed claim, seized territory and
declined arbitration upon it her action
he declared did not differ from Selling
and holding e territory in the
Americas by right OF conquest. Ii
she could seize territory under a claim
which had grown larger with each
succeeding year, there was nothinw to
prevent her taking indefinite regions IN
South America. The Senator referred
to the claim made on Venezuela bv
Great Britain for reparation on ac-
count of the arrest by the authorities
of the former country of British sub
jects in the disputed territory.
But the question of reparation, he
said, must not be mixed up with the
acquisition of territory. II Venezuela
paid the indemnity fixed and de-
manded by Greut Britain, she. ac-
knowledged in doing SO, that the dis
puted country is British territory and
made the whole case void. The for
eign policy and the great interests of
h United States sehich lay beyond
her borders, had been neglected too
long, declared Mr.. Lodge. The mat
ter of boundary dispute should be
settled by arbitration, because if it is
settled otherwise it will be a blow to
the dignity Of the United States. He
did not believe the people OF England
had the least desire to engage in hos
Utilities with the United States any
nor than we sought or desired hos"
tilities with them.
"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 denounced the modus
vivendi and reopened in that way the
perilous dispute OF the seal fisheries.
It is not by accident that these events
have all occurred or all come to an
acute stage within the past year"
The senator closed by expressing
the belief that the questions between
England and the United States would
be .peaceably settled, but it was very
clear that such settlement could only
be reached by action IN the part of
Congress and the president, which
should be as firm as it was temperate,
and which should maintain the Mon
roe doctrine absolutely and at all
hazards wherever it justly applied.
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