Rocky Ford enterprise., 1896-01-23
A NEW DECLARATION.
MONROE DOCTRINE uREAF-
FISMED.
Foreign Relations Committee Of tn. Sem
ate submits u Resolution which HH-
No Uncertain Sound-it WiIl Protect
Cuba, Venezuela aud the I.thmns .f
Panama.

Washington. Jan. Ex-senator Davis
lations to-day reported favorably the
following resolution enunciating t.ic
Monroe doctrine. 1t Is the result of the
lengthy consideration of the committee
on the advisability Of Incorporating the
Monroe doctrine In the federal stat.
utes.
Concurrent resolution relative to the
assertion and enforcement of the Mon
roe doctrine:
Resolved, by the Senate, the House of
Representatives concurring, That,
whereas President Monroe, In his mes
sage to Congress of December 9, A. u.
1923, deemed it proper to assert as n
principle In which the rights and Inter
ests of the United States are involved
that the American continents, by the
free and Independent condition which
they have assumed and maintained,
We're thenceforth not to be considered
as subjects for future colonization by
any European power.
Whereas, President Monroe further
declared In that message that the Unit
ed States would consider any attempt
by the allied powers Of Europe to ex-
tend their system to any portion Of this
hemisphere as dangerous to our peace
and safety; that with the existing col
onies and dependencies of any Euro
pean power we have not interfered and
shall not Interfere, but that with the
governments who have declared their
independence and maintained It, whose
independence we have, on great con-
sideration and on just principles, ac-
knowledged, we could not view any In
terposition 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 Il
manifestation of an unfriendly dispo-
sition toward the United States; and
further reiterated in that message that
1t Is impossible that the allied powers
shall extend their political system to
any portion of either continent without
endangering 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 them to
first be announced, and have ever since
their promulgation. and are now the
rightful policy of the United States.
Therefore, be it resolved, That the
United States of America reattirms and
confirms the doctrines and principles
promulgated by President Monroe in
his message of December 9. 1923, and
declares that 1t will assert and main.
tain that doctrine and those principles
and will regard any infringement there.
of, and particularly any attempt by
any European power to take or acquire
any new territory on the American
continents. or any islands adjacent
thereto. or any right of sovereignty oil
dominion in the same, in any case oil
instance as to which the United States
shall deem such an attempt to be dan
gerous to its peace and safety, by oil
through force, purchase cession, occu
patton, pledge, colonization, protector.
ate, or by control of the easement in
canal or other means of transit across
the American isthmus. whether on un
| founded pretension or right in cases OF
alleged boundary disputes, or under
other unfounded pretcnsions. as the
manifestation of an unfricndly dispos
ton toward the United States, and as
an intcrposition which it would be i'm
possible in any form for the United
States to regard with Indifference.