Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-15
NOTICE TO EUROPE
DECLARATION REGARDING THE
MONROE DOCTRINE.
Was Reported to the Senate by the
Foreign Relations Committee
in January, 1896.

The Senate committee on foreign rela-
lions made a declaration of the Monroe
doctrine when the agitation over the
Schomburgk line in Venezuela was intense.
January 90, 1896, the late Senator Davis re-
ported the declaratory resolution from his
committee. Senator Gray, now chairman
of the anthracite strike arbitration an
nounced that the report was not the unani-
nous action of the committee. The Senate
never took action on the report.
Senator Davis said the action of the COM
mttee notice to foreign nations and
was sufficiently effective without any vote
of the Senate. The resolution as reported
follows:
Concurrent resolution relative to the
assertion and enforcement of the Monroe
doctrine:
Resolved by the Senate .Ghe House of
Representatives concurring) that whereas
President Monroe, in his message to Con-
gress of December 2, A. D., 1898. 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 condition
which they have assumed and maintained
were thenceforth not to be considered as
subjects for future colonization by any
European power, and
Whereas, President Monroe further de
clared in that message that the United
States would consider any attempt 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 existing colonies and dependencies
OF any European power We have not inter-
fered, and should not interfere, but that
with the governments who have declared
their independence and maintained it, and
whose independence we have on great con-
sideration and on just principles acknowl
edged, we could not view any interposition
for the purpose of depressing them or con-
trolling in any other manner their destiny
by any European power in any other light
than as the manifestation of an unfrendly
disposition toward the United 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 without endangering
peace and happiness; and
Whereas, the doctrine and policy pro-
claimed by President Monroe have since
been repeatedly asserted by the United
States by executive declaration and action
upon occasions and exigencies similar to
that particular occasion and eXigency which
caused them to be first announced and
have been ever since their PRONUNCIATION,
and now are, the rightful policy of the
United States: therefore be it
Resolved. that the United States of
America redffirnS and confirms the doctrine
and principles promulgated by President
Monroe in his message of December .,
A. d. 1893, and declares that it will assert
and maintain that doctrine and those prin-
ciples. and will regard any infringement
thereof. and particularly any attempt by
any European power to take or acquire any
new or additional territory on the American
continents. any island 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
attempt to be dangerous to its peace or
safety by or through force, purchase, ces
sion, occupation, pledge, colonization pro-
tectorate, or by control of the easement in
any canal or any other means of transit