The record-union., 1896-02-12

fixing to an Enlarged Scope of 1t
the Sanction of Legislative APP
proval-American Territory Not to
be Subject to Further Conquest by
Powers of the Old World.
WASHINGTON, Feb. lin the SEN
ate to-day, on motion of Hoar (Rep) of
Massachusetts, it was ordered that on
the 22d of February, Washington s
Birthday, Immediately after the read
Ing of the journal, Washingtons fare
well address be read to the Senate by
its President pro tempore.
Quay consented that his resolution
for the recommittaI of the House tariff
bill should go over without action, so as
not to interfere with the consideration
of the bill tomorrow, Morrill, having
given notice of his purpose to ask the
Senate to act upon it then.
The bill as to distribution of seeds
was then taken up, and Vests substi-
tute for it was agreed to and the BILL
so amended, was passed without a di-
vision. 1t authorizes the Secretary Of
Agriculture to purchase and distribute
valuable seeds for the year 1896, as has
been done in preceding years. He is to
procure the seed by open purchase or
contract, and shall not pay more for
them than reasonable and fair price.
Blanchard Dem) Of Louisiana ad-
dressed the Senate on the subject of the
Monroe doctrine. He commended the
Presidents stand on the Venezuelan
boundary dispute. and strongly urged
that the doctrine of Monroe be ad-
vanced to the dignity of rule of Gov
ernmental authority by afffXing to an
enlarged scope of it the sanction of
legislative approval. Heretofore his
American policy had remained a mere
dictum of the Executive. He insisted
that the time had come when it should
he given a legal status by Congressional
declaration-broad, bold, comprehen-
sive, not made in temper, nor menacing,
but decisive.
While his speech occupied advanced
ground on this theme, it was conceived
in good temper, and breathed a spirit of
peace and good will toward our English
cousins. He said, among other things,
that while the declaration of the Mon
roe message sprang into being by rea-
son of the imminence of a peculiar dan
ger then confronting this country,
which it was intended to meet and
avoid, it had still another purpose to
serve. They We're to furnish the foun
dation of an active policy in cOnsonance
with them, to last for all time.
The message was not merely notice
served at the time upon the allied Pow
ers of certain resistance to be offered
to the extension of their operations to
this continent. 1t went farther. It
posted a notice to endure as long as this
Government endured, and to be taken
account of by all nations, that Ameri-
can territory was not to be the subject
OF further conquest or colonization by
the Powers of the Old World
I'VE endeavored to have these troub-
les adjusted by arbitration" said Mr..
blanchard. THAT failing, we have ap
pointed a commission to determine the
true boundary line. This commission
will complete its work and will ascer-
tain what is the true eastern boundary
line of Venezuela and will definitely
report to Congress and the President.
The line thus established will be adopt
ed by this Government as the true
boundary line between Venezuela and
British Guiana, and Venezuela will ac-
quiesce in the same, withdrawing all
pretension to any territory east of the
line. Thereafter any crossing of this
line by an armed force for the purpose
of holding or seizing territory thus de-
termfned to be Venezuelan would be
held by us to be tantamount to decla-
ration of war against both the United
States and Venezuela, and would be re-
stricted accordingly.
This is the inevitable logic Of the
position we have assumed. 1t is the doc
trine Of America for the Americans; it
IS the balance Of power" idea applied
TO America; it is the assertion of the
principle that American questions are
for American decisions; the two Eng
lish-speaking races should be frank
and sincere in their dealings, their in
tercourse, their contentious, one with
the other.
..Archdeacon Farrar in his address on
General Grant at Westminster Abbey,
said: Whatever there is between two
nations to forget and forgive is for
gotten and forgiven In like manner, /
saw wherever there is dispute or con-
tention between the two nations, let II
be settled ayong the lines Of kindred,
friendship and peace.
At the close OIL MI. 10l1iASAStN ~ , SPS~SAA
n message from the President on the
subject of the Imprisonment in France
of ex-ConsuI Waller of Madagascar was
laid before the Senate
Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska made some
remarks in reply to criticisms OF the
Secretary of A Agriculture by Vest (Dem)
of Missouri and other Senators, and
said that the Secretary was discharglng
Fof4 Fall
Wolcott CRep.) of Colorado broke IN
with a question whether the Senator
could point to a single act of the Seere-
tary that would redeem his manage
rnent of the Office OF the contempt into
which it had fallen
Allen contented himself with an ex-
pianation of the circumstances under
which the State of Nebraska had re-
ceived more than its quota of seeds in
1895.
Vest took up the question again and
proceeded to ridicule the pretensions of
the Secretary of Agriculture and TO
show up his inconsistency.
Hale (Rep.) of Maine, who desired to
nroceed with the urgent deficiency bill.
said that the Senate had to-day disposed
Of the seed bill and that the discussion
was now over a caput mortuum.
..Does the Senator mean" Wolcott
asl<ed. .to call the Secretary a dead
bead7 I should like the Senator from