Arizona republican., 1905-02-17
Duty of the United States
 in SdRtO Domingo
TIT WORKS. TWO WAYS
The Presidents Views of the houree Doctrine Set Forth in His Message Co Senate Concerning Arrangement fer Handling Customs Receipts.

Washington. Feb. 16.-Presidcnt Roosevelts message. transmitting ta the senate the new Dominican p:oJocol of an agreement providing for the col lection and distribution by the United States of the customs revenues of san Domingo for the adjustment of all ob- legations of that government was ta- day made public by order of the sen ate in executive session The dncu- ment includes the new agreement as well as the original protocol and the award of the commission of arbitration for the settlement of the claims of the SantO Domingo Improvement company under which agents of the United States are already collecting the rev enue at certain of the ports of Inc Dominican government
 Few documents that have come to the senate in relation to any of the south or central American or West In dia republics have attracted SD much attention. Because of the controversy that has arisen as to the rights of the executive to enter into treaty arrange ments with any foreign government
 without the advice and consent of the senate, extraordinary interest has been | aroused. The document came to the senate yesterday at one hour past the usual time for most of the senators ta l leave the chamber. and therefore it was brought up soon after the senats
 convened today
 ! The message of the president Outliu-
 ed the policy of administration in re-
 lation to the Monroe doctrine. hoidins ] that it demanded that this government ! take charge of the customs Of Amerl- can states when it is manifest that they are unable to maintain their own integrity. In addition to the presi- ! dents discussion of the Monroe doe urine in the case of Santo Domineo. the protocol makes specific declarations oI
 it's application. and in that respect ts
 unusual in treaty making
 The declaration occurs in the second
 paragraph which reads as follows ~it has for some time been obvious that
 those who profit by the Monroe dee Urine must accept certain responsibil- - ities along with the rights which it
 cOnfers and that the same statement applies to those -Yyhe uphold the doe
 trine It cannot be too often and tco , emphatically asserted that the United States has not the slightest desire tuF territorial aGgrandizement al the eN- r pense of any of its southern neighhors and will not treat the Monroe doctrine ? as the slightest excuse for such az
 grandfzement on its part We do no'
 propose to take any part of San Do
 mingo or exercise any other control
 over the island save what Is nccessa- " to its financial rehabilitation M connection with the collection Of the
 revenues, a part of which will be turn
 ed over to the government to meet ths
 necessary expenses of running tt- and
 a part of which will be distributed prt
 rata among the creditors of the repub-
 lie on a basis Of absolute equality Jus
 tification for the United States talins - this burden and mourning this respon- s sibility is to be found fin the fact tha = it is incompatible with intenatlona e equity for the United States to refus'
 to allow other powers to take the on-
 means at their disposal of satisfyins
 the claims of their creditors and ye - refuse itself to take any such steps ; An aggrieVed nation can. withou l. interfering with the Monroe doctrine = take what action it sees 1t iu the ad }. justment of its disputes with Amer l. ican states. provided that action doe }. not take the shape of interference wit l. their form of government or Of desnolt !, ment Of their territory under any cis 7. guise. But, short Of this. when m
 question is one of money claim th
 only way which remains finally Co cui
 feet it is a blockade or bOmbardmen .; or seizure of custom houses. and h 2, means, as has been said above. of wha
 is in effect possession, even thouE
 only temporary possession of the Ger
 ritory. The United States then be y comes a party in interest. because un y der the Monroe doctrine it cannot st l. any European power siege and per ,e manently occupy the territory of on IS of these republics. and yet such seiz ,s ure of territory. disguised or uudis It guised. may eventually offer the onl (. way in which the power in questio 'n can collect any debts unless there 1t interference on the part of the Unite IL States"
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