Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-01-25
THE DOCTRINE DEFINED.
Senate Committees View OF the
Monroe Message.


WASHINGTON, Jan 2o.--In the Sem
ate today Mr.. Davis. Republican, Of
Minnesota, OF the committee on for
eign relations, submitted favorable
report on the resolution framed by him
enunciating the Monroe doctrine. It
was read from the desk, receiving
close attention. The resolution.
preamble and all, in full, is as follows:
Concurrent resolution relative to
the assertion and enforcement of the
Monroe doctrine:
Resolved by the Senate, the House
of Representatives concurring, That
whereas President Monroe, in his mes
sage to Congress ofDecember 2. A. D.
1928, deemed it proper to assert as a
principle, in which the rights aud in
terests of the United States are involv-
ed, that the American continents, by
the free and independent condition
which they have assumed and main
tanned, were thenceforth not to be con-
sidered as subjects for future colonial
ton by any European power.
''Whereas President Monroe further
declared in that message that the
United States would consider any at
tempt 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 exist
ing colonies and dependencies of any
European power we have not inter
fered and should not interfere, but that
with the governments who have de-
clared their independence and main
tanned it, and whose independence we
have. on great consideration and on
just principles, acknowledged, we
could not view any interposition for
the purpose of expressing them or con-.
trolling in any other manner their
destiny by any European power, in
any other light than as the manifesto
ton of an unfrienily disposition to-
ward the Uuited States, and further
reiterated in that message that it is
impossible that the allied powers
should extend their political system to
any portion of either continent with
out endangering our peace and happi-
ness; and
Whereas the doctrine and policy
so proclaimed by President Monroe
have since been repeatedly asserted
by the United States by executive dec
laration and action upon occasions
and exigencies similar to the particu-
lar occasion and exigency which
caused them to be first announced,
and have been ever since their pro-
mitigation 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 princi-
pie promulgated by President Monroe
in his message Of December 2, 1928,
and declares that it will assert and
maintain that doctrine and those prin-
ciples, and will regard any infringe
ment thereof and particularly any at
tempt 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 at
tempts to be dangerous to its peace or
safety by or through force, purchase,
cession, occupation, pledge, colonial
ton, protectorate or by control of the
easement in canal or any other means
of transit across the American 18TH
mus, whether on unfounded preten-
sion of right in cases of alleged boun-
dairy disputes or under other uufound-
ed pretensions, as the manifestation
of an unfriendly disposition toward
the United States and as an interpo-
sition which it would be impossible in
any form for the United States to re-
gard with indifference.
At Mr.. Davis's request the resolu-
ton went to the Senate calendar.
Mr.. Gray, Democrat. of Delaware,
stated that he desired it understood
that the favorable report was not
unanimous.