The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-01-21
Text of the Resolution Prepared
by the Senator From
Minnesota.
1t Reiterates the Sentiments of
President Monroe and Adds
q Few.
No Conquest or Trade for Terri
tory and No Control of 18TH
mian Canals.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-Senator Davis
OF the senate committee on foreign rela-
tions reported favorably the resolution
enunciating the Monroe doctrine. 1t is
the result of lengthy consideration Of
the committee OH the advisability of
incorporating the Monroe doctrine in
the federal statues, and is as follows:
Resolved by the senate, the house Of
representatives concurring, that,
Whereas, President Monroe, in his
message to congress Dec. 2, A. D.. 1928,
deemed it proper to assert as principle
In which the rights and interests of the
United States are involved, that the
American continents by the free and
independent positions which they have
assumed and maintained were thence
forth not 70 be considered as subjects for
future colonization by any European
power.yand
.r. Whereas, President Monroe further
r. klared in that message that the
NAited States wonld consider any at
Tempt by the allied powers Of Europe
20 extend their system to any portion of
This hemisphere as dangerous to our
sSpeace and safety; that with the exist
ing colonies and dependencies of any
= European power we have not interfered
n id should not interfere; but that with
he governments who have declared
their independence and maintained it,
whose independence we have on great
consideration and upon just principles
acknowledged, we could not view any
lnterposition for the purpose of oppress-
ing them, or
Controlling in Any Other Manner
their destiny by any European power
in any other light than as the manifes-
tation of an unfriendly disposition to-
ward the United States, and further re-
lterated in that message that it is impos-
sible that the allied powers should ex.
tend their political system to any por-
ton of either contintnt without endan-
gering our peace and happiness; and
Whereas, The doctrine and policy so
proclaimed by President Monroe have
since been repeatedly asserted by the
United States by executive declaration
and action, upon occasions and exigen.
cies similar to the particular occasion
and exigency which caused those to first
be announced, and have been ever since
. their promulgation, and now are. the
rightful policy Of the United States.
Reaffirms and Confirms Them.
Therefore, be it resolved, That the
United States reaffirms and confirms
the doctrines and principles promul-
gated by President Monroe in this mes
sage of Dec. 2, 1923, and declares that
it will assert and maintain that doctrine
and those principles, and will regard
any infringement thereof, and particu-
larly any attempt by any European
power to take or acquire any new ter
ritory on the American continent, or
any islands adjacent thereto, or any
right of sovereignty or dominion in the
same, in any case or instance,
as to which the United States
shall deem such an attempt to be dam
gerous to its peace or safety, by or
through force, purchase, cession, occu-
patton, pledge, colonization, protector
ate or by control of the easement in
canal or any other means of transit
across the American isthmus whether
on unfounded pretension of right in
cases of alleged boundary disputes, or
under other unfounded pretentions, as
the manifestation Of an unfriendly dis
position toward the United States, and
as an interposltion which it would be
impossible in any form for the United
States to regard with Indifference"