Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-01-02
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
This Principle So Often Referred to. Set Forth
by Resolution.

This Principle So Often Referred to, Set Fortl
by Resolution.
The Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations made a declaration of the
Monroe doctrince when the agitation
over the Schromberg line in Vene'
zuela was intense, on January 20, 1896
The Senate never took action on the
report, however, but it may be as.
sumed to embrace about all there is in
the policy proclaimed by President
Monroe, and is as sound now as it was
in 1928:
Resolved, BY the Senate, the House
of Representatives concurring, that
WHEREAS, President Monroe, in
his message to Congress of December
2, 1923, deemed it proper to assert as
principle in which the rights and in
terests OF the United States are in.
volved, that the American continents,
by the free and Independent condition
which they have assumed and main
tained, we're henceforth not to be con-
sidered as subjects for future colonial
ton by any European power; and,
WHEREAS, President Monroe fur.
ther declared in that message that
the United States would consider any
attempt by the allied powers of Eu-
rope to extend their system to any
portion of this hemisphere as danger
Gus to our peace and safety, that with
the existing colonies and dependencies
of any European power we have not
interfered, and should not interfere,
but that with the governments who
have declared their independence and
maintained it. and whose independ.
ence we have in great consideration
and just principles acknowledged, we
could not view any interposition for
the purpose of opposing or con trolling
in any other manner their destiny by
any European power in any other
light than as q manifestation of un-
friendly disposition toward the United
States, and further reiterated in that
message that it is impossible that the
allied powers should extend their po-
litical system to any portion of either
continent without endangering our
peace and happiness; and,
WHEREAS, The doctrine and pol
icy 90 proclaimed by President Monroe
have since been repeatedly asserted by
the United States by executive declar.
stions and action upon occasions, and
exigencies similar to that particular
occasion and that exigency which
caused them to be first announced
and have been ever since their pro.
mitigation and now are the rightiul
policy OF the United States; therefore,
be it
Resolved, That the United States
OF America reaflirms and confirms the
doctrine and principles promulgated
by President Monroe in his message oil
December 2, 1923, and declares that il
will assert and maintain that doc.
trine and those principles, and will re-
gard any infringement thereof, and
particularly any attempt by any Euro
peon power to take or acquire any new
or additional territory on the cont
nents or any island adjacent thereto
or any right Of sovereignty or domin
ion in the same in any case or in
stance as to which the United Statel
shall deem such attempt to be dan
gerous to its peace or safety by, OF
through force, purchase, concession
occupation, pledge, colonization, pro
tectorate, or by control of the ease
ment in any canal or any other means
OF transit across the isthmus, whether
under unfounded pretension Of righ,
in cases of alleged boundary disputes
or under any other unfounded preten
sions, as the manifestations of an un
friendly disposition toward the United
States. and as an interposition which
it would be impossible in any form fol
| the United States to regard with in
difference"