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2 V;I‘HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1%95. States at least let us be assured of the cor- relative that the United States will make itself responsible for the foreign policy of all the petty, impetuous little states on of America. There is t without correspond- the two continent the lim omburg line as a concession that only a strong state could ated to a weak one. “It adds: ndon our settlers any more 1t Cleveland would his.” oncludes thus: “We can only express genuine regret at tone of the document, which meetsno le by Lord Salisbury and a threat of force from a ate to the motherland over an e, trumpery dispute in which the United States has no right; but the mes- 3 not obscure or defeat the affection 1bsists between the two countries of blood that must needs binds 1 indissoluble union.” The Morning Post will say: *“President Cleveland has outdone the Republican his efforts to show dislike for this he has not committed himself The message does not make sage the slightest attempt to grapple with Lord Sal argument that the United cannot find any excuse in the anguage of the Monroe doctrine for their appearance on the scene, or that if they could give the old President’s words any such extension, bis declaration has no hori The international law tribunal that President Cleveland asks the Con- gress to set up can have no more binding n this country than would a decis- v the Supreme Court at Washington.” The Standard will say: “Most Englishmen will read the mes- sage with unfeigned astonishment. The position taken by Mr. Cleveland is prepos- | te No citjzen of the United States would for a moment dream of admirtting its soundness in any analocous case in which the interest or honor of his own country was concerned. The most appro- the situation that e ed by the con- Cleveland dogma is pres cluding words of the m paper quotes, adding: “The language may be a trifle turgid, bui the sentiment is wholesome. Yet it is is act of self-abasement that the Pres. imagines he is entitled to bring pr sureon Great Britain. There can be only one answer to such a demand. Wedecline to humiliate ourselves and refuse to accept the decision of the United States execu- de out that the pretension of the State Department to enforce arbitration through- the American continent had any color in the Monroe doctrine, such an applica- tion would be a reductio ad absurdum of a cherished maxim. Happiy, Lowever, the sobriety and enaurance of the tra- of American diplomacy Lord y has effectively disposed of the delusion that the Monroe doctrine isin - way pertinent to the question of the lan frontier. s regards the precise cause of the dif- ference with Venezuela, we believe we ve a perfectly stainless record. Mr. to do him justice, refuses to take it nted that Venezuela has s an- tiated her case against us, though Mr. Cleveland, with a loss of perception, chooses to assume that our action is in derogzation of the rights of the little re- fo *As British subjects nave settled up to e Sshomburg line, we cannot possibly hdraw our protection and leave them tot sks of the revolutions and. misrule of the republic, but beyond the pale of settlement, we are quite willing to accept arbitration. This, however, would be of no avail. “Venezuela sets up pretensions which if found valid would involve the absorp- tion of half of our colony if not territory of our Dutch and French neighbors. By the same rule the United States might be asked to submit their title to Alaska to the judgment of impartial umpires. Congress would indignantly reject such a demand. So will the Bri Government reject the present demand.” The Telegraph “The United States have no practical concern in the controversy. The invocation of the Mon- roe doctrine seems, on our side of the wa- ter, to be irrelevant and absurd. If itis in any sense true that all this zealons sup- port of Venezuela owes its origin to parti- san intrigues there till less reason for submitting to what from the British standpoint is a wholly perverse and inad- missible claim.” The Times, will say: “It isimpossible to disguise the gravities of the differences that have arisen between this country and the United States. The message that President Cleveland transmitted to Con- gress and the reception it met from both sides in the Senate give additional import- ance to the dispatchesthat have passed be- tween the State Department at Washing- ton and the Foreign Office. The details of tne boundary dispute with Venezuela are insignificant in comparjson with the far- reaching claim put forward in Mr. Olney’s dispatch and emphasized in Mr. Cleve- and’s message. “Convinced as we are that a rupture be- tween the two great English-spearing communities would be a calamity not only to themselves but to the civilized world, we ate nevertheless driven to the conclu- sion that the concessions that this country is imperiously sammoned to make are such as no self-respecting nation and least of all one ruling an empire that has roots in every quarter of the zlobe could possi- bly submit to. The United States them- selves would never for a moment dream of yielding to this kind of dictation. We are of the same blood and shall not be less careful of our national honor. We can hardly believe that the course threatened by Mr. Cleveland will be seriously adopted by the American Government, but if so it will beincumbent upon us,withoutentering upon such aggressive measures, to protect our imperial interests and stand up for our rights under international law. Lord Salisbury expresses his full concurrence with the view that the disturbance of ter- ritory in the Western Hemisphere by fresh acquisition on the part of European states is highly inexpedient, but the recognition of this inexpediency does not cover the vreposterous deductions from the Monroe doctrine which Mr. Olney’s dispatch puts forward, and Mr. Cleveland makes the basis of the most astounding proposal that erhaps ever has been advanced by any sovernment in time of peace since the days of Napoleon.” —_— ARBITRATION OR WhA Continued from First Page. th however—a result not to be anticipatea and in his judgment calculated to greatly Hundreds are buyin wholesale prices at” DODGE’S, 107 Montgomery. Magazines supplied at Cut Rates, 7 BOOKS at sage,” which the | 1f it could be reasonably | embarrass the future relations between this country and Great Britain—it is his wish to be made acquainted with the fact at such early date as will enable him to lay the whole subject-matter before Congress in his next annual message.” Lord Salisbury’s answer to Mr, Olney’s note is addressea to Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Kmbassador at Washington, and is in two installments, both under date of November 26 last. The first note deals with the epnunciation of principles laid down by Mr. Olney on the Monroe doctrine, while the second merely dis- cusses the boundary question between Great Britain and Venezuela. The first note follows in part: “Lord Salisbury to Sir Julian Paunce- fote: ‘‘Foreign Office, November 26, 1895. Sir: On the 7th of August I transmitted to Lord Gough a copy of the dispatch from Mr. Oiney which Mr. Bayard had left with me that day and of which he had read portions to me. I informed him at the time that it could not be answered until it had been carefully considered by the law officers of the crown. I have therefore deferred replying to it until after the recess. . “The contentions set forth by Mr. Olney in the latter part of his dispatch are repre- sented by him as being an application of the political maxims which are well known in American discussion under the name of the Monroe doctrine. As far as I am aware this doctrine has never been hetore advanced on behalf of the United States in any written communication addressed to the Government of another nation, but it has been generally adopted and assumed as true by many eminent writers and politicians in the TUnited States. The two propositions which in effect President Monroe l2id down were, first, that America was no longer to be looked upon as a colonization, and, secondly, that Europe wmust not attempt to extend its political system to America or to control the political condition of any of the American communities who had recently declared their independence. The dangers against which President onroe thought it right to guard were not as imaginary as they would seem at the present day. The formation of the holy alliance, the congressesof Laybach and Verona; the invasion of Spain by France for the purpose of forcing upon the Span- ish people a form of government which seemed likely to disappear, unless it was sustained by external aid, were incidents fresh in the mind of President Monroe when he penned his celebrated message. “The dangers which were apprehended by President Monroe have no relation to the state of things in which we live at the present day. The circumstances with which President Monroe was dealing and those to which the present American Gov- ernment is addressing itself have very few features in common. Great Britain is im- posing no ‘system’ upon Venezuela, and is not concerning herself in any way with the nature of the political institutions under which the Venezuelans may prefer to live. “Bat the British empire and the re public of Venezuela are neighbors and they have differed for some time past and continue to differ as to the line by which their dominions are separated. It is a controversy with which the United States has no apparent practical concern. Itis difficuit indeed to see how it can ma- terially affect any state or community out- e of those primarily interested, except aps other parts of her Majesty’'s do- nions, such as Trinidad. The disputed frontier of Venezuela has nothing to do with any of fhe questions dealt with by |’ President Monroe. It is simply the de- termination of the frontler of a British possession which belonged to the throne of England long before the fepublic of Venezuela came into existence. *The Government of the United States doesnot say that Great Britain or that Ven- ezuela is in the right in the matters that are in issue. But it lays down that the doctrine of President Monroe when he op- posed the imposition of European systems or the renewal of European solonization conters upon them the right of demanding that when a European power hasa frontier difference with a South American com- munity the European power shall consent to refer that controversy to arbitration, and Mr. Olney states that unless her Maj- esty’s Government accedes to this demand it will ‘greatly embarrass the future rela- tions between Great Britain and the United States.” “‘Whatever may be the authority of the doctrine laid down by President Monroe there 1s nothing in his language to show that he ever thought of claiming this novel prerogative for the United States. It is edmitted that he did not seek to assert a protectorate over Mexico or the states of Central and South America. Such a claim would have imposed upon the United States the duty of answering for the conduct of these states, and con- sequently the responsibility of controlling it. Mr. Olney expressly disclaims such an inference from the principles he laysdown. “In the remarks which I have made I have argued on the theory that the Mon- roe doctrine in itself is sound. I must not, however, be understood as pressing any acceptance of it on the part of her Majes- ty’s Government. It must always be mentioned with respect, on account of the distinguished statesman to whom it is due and the great Nation who bave gen- erally adopted it. But international law is founded on the general consent of na- tions, and no statesman, however emi- nent, and no nation, however powerful, are competent to insert into the code of international law g novel principle which was never recognized before and which has not since been accepted by the Gov- ernment of any other country. The United States have a right, like any other nation, to interpose in any controversy by which their own interests are affected, and they are to judge whether these interests are touched and in what measure they should be sustained. “Mr. Olney quotes the case of the recent Chilean war, in which the United States declined to join with France and England in an effort to bring hostilities to a close, on account of the Monroe doctrine. The United States was entirely in the right in declining to join in an attempt at pacifi- cation if they thought fit, but Mr. Olney’s principle that ‘American questions are for American decision,’ even if it re- ceived any countenance trom the language of President Monroe (which it does not), cannot be sustained by any reasoning drawn from the law of nations.” Mr. Olney says ‘that distance and 3000 miles of in- tervening ocean make 'any permanent political union between a European and an American state unnatural, and inex- pedient’ will hardly be denied. *The necessary meaning of Mr. Olney’s words is that the union between Great Britain and Canada, between Great Britain, Jamaica and Trinidad, between Great Britain and British Honduras or British Guiana are ‘inexpedient and unnatural.’ President Monroe disclaims any such in- ference from his doctrine, but in this, as in other respects, Mr. Olney develops it. He lays down that the inexpedient and un- natural character of a union between a European and an American state is so field for FEuropean | obvious that it ‘will hardly be denied.’ Her Majesty’s Government are prepared emphatically to deny it on behalf of both the British and American people who are subject to her crown. They maintain that the union between Great Britain and her territories in the Western Hemisphere is both natural and expedient. They are. not prepared to admit that the interests of the United States are necessarily concerned in every frontier dispute which may arise between any two of the states who possess domin- ion in the Western Hemisphere; and still less can they accept the doctrine that the United States are entitled to claim that the process of arbitration shall be applied to any demand for the surrender of terri- tory which one of those States may make against another. Irequest that you will read the substance of the above dispatch to Mr. Olney and leave him a copy if he desires it.”” Lord Salisbury’s second note, also of November 26, concludes the correspond- ence. It is devoted to controverting the Venezuelan position in the boundary dis- pute. In conclusion he says, referring to the British Government: “They have, on the contrary, repeatedly expressed their readiness to submit to ar- bitration the conflicting claims of Great Britain and Venezuela to large tracts of territory which from their auriferous na- ture are known to be of almost untold value. But they cannot consent to enter- tain or to submit to arbitration of another power or of foreign jurists, however emi- nent, claims based on the extravagant pre- tensions of Spanish officials in the last century, and involving the transfer of large numbers of British subjects who! have for many years enjoyed the settled rule of a British colony to a nation of dif- ferent race and language, whose political system is subject to frequent disturbance, and whose institutions as yet too oiten af- ford very inadequate protection to life and property. No issue of this description has ever been involved in the questions which Great Britain and the United States have consented to submit to arbitration, and her Majesty’s Government is con- vinced that in similar circumstances the Government of the United States would be equally firm in decliving to entertain proposals of such a nature.” A e} IN SENATE AND HOUSE. Message of the President Received With Applause. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 17.—The demonstration which followed the reading of President Cleveland’s message in the Senate to-day was strongly indicative of the general sentiment. Without any di- vision on party lines, and with the Re- publicans even more pronounced in their applause than the Democrats, the message met with the heartiest approval—nearly all the Senators clapping their hands and giving other evidences of gratification, while the few spectators in the galleries— the doors of which had been opened only five minutes before—joined in theapplause without any apprehension of being re- proved by the presiding officer. The strongest expressions in the message were those that were most favored. Among these were the following sentenc ““The course to be pursued by this Gov- ernment in view of the present condition does not appear to admit of serious doubt.”’ “The dispute has reached such a stage as to make it now incumbent upon the United btates to take measures -to deter- mine, with sufficient certainty for its justi- fication, what is the treaty divisional line between the republic of Venezuela and British Guiana.” “It will in my opinion be the duty of the United States to resist by every measure in its power, as a willful aggression upon 1ts rights and interests, the appropriation by Great Britain of any lands or the exer- cise of governmental jurisdiction over any territory which after investigation we have determined of right belongs to Venezula.”” It was in connection with this last sen- tence that Senator Morgan of Alabama (chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations) remarked, in an undertone, that there was no mistaking the meaning of that and that Senator Frye (R.) of Maine remarked, “That is capital.” The message and correspondence were re- ported to the Committee on Foreign Re- lations with permission to the committee to sit during any recess. ‘While in executive session the Senate extended for a period of one year the treaty between this country and Mexico relative io the work of the Boundary Com- mission. There was ncthing else in to- day’s session of the Senate that rose be- yond the level of routine business and as, after the reading of the message, the Sen- ators had mno-inclination to continue such work, the Senate at P. M. adjourned until to-morrow, The proceedings of the House to-day were opened by a partisan debate growing out of Cannon’s amendment to the rules providing for three committees on elec- tions. In support of the amendment, Cannon spoke of the great preponderance of contests from the South, and quoted allezations that notwithstanding the re- pea! of the Federal election laws, fraud still existed in the elections in that part of the country. Crisp (D.) of Georgia led the opposition to the amendment, declaring that the ef- fect of its adoption would be to work in- justice to Democratic contestees; that there was nothing in the history of the Republican party to warrant the assump- tion that election contests would be de- cided by this House upon other than par- tisan grounds. Propositions to amend the amenament were made, but were all re- jected, and after four hours’ debate the proposition was agreed to. At 4:35 the President’s message on the Venezuelan boundary dispute with Great Britaln was read and evoked hearty ap- plause. The message was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and at 4:50 o’clock the House adjourned until to-mor- TOW. e BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. Prompt Action Decided Upon by the Senate. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 17.—The mere question of the adoption of the re- port of the Senate committee did not con- sume the two hours during which the Re- publicans of the Senate were behind closed doors this afternoon. They were occupied with something of vastly more importance to the whole American people. The Presi- dent’s message was up for consideration and there proved to be an absolute unan- imity of sentiment among them on the question of indorsing the President in the stand he had taken. The discussion was precipitated by the motion of Lodge, that the chairman of the committee be requested to confer with Gorman with a view to having the Com- mittee on Foreign Relations recognized before the holiday recess, so that the mat- ters set out in the President’s message might be considered by that committee, the urgency of the situation having been recognized when Mr. Morgan, earlier in the day, asked and obtained leave for the committee to sit during the recess. Speeches were made by Lodge, Frye, Chandler and several other Senators, and every one of them breathed the utmost loyaity to the President in the stand he had taken. The fact was called to the at- tention of the Republicans that they had been taunting the President with being away on a duck-hunting trip while matters of the greatest moment were transpiring; that Secretary Carlisle had been criticized for not sending in his annual report as re- quired by law; that the general policy of the administration has been denounced =s un-American and weak, and that now the President had returned and almost in- stantly laid before the Senate a message full of sentiments that must be indorsed by every patriotic man in the whole coun- try regardless of politics or party. If England was to be impressed with the fact that this country indorsed its Presi- dent; if that Government was to under- stand that this message was notacam- paign letter intended for mere political ef- fect, the Senate must take the matter up and proceed with it with all possible speed consistent with the vital importance of the subject. The argument was made that it would not do for this message to be fol- lowed by an absolute abandonment of all the work; the country and England should know that the Senate took the mes- sage as a serious thing, involving matters of such vast importance and so porten- tous in the results that may grow there- from, that the duly constituted commit- tees of Congress proposed to be constantly on- duty and always ready to hold up the hands of the Chief Magistrate. Such is a brief outline of the sentiments expressed at this caucus. The war spirit is abroad so far as the Republicans are concerned, and some of the speeches made behind the closed doors of the marble chamber would make the most interesting reading that has gone from this city for weeks. So imbued were the Republicans with the importance of the situation and the need of further conference that the matter will be again discussed at the cau- cus which has been called for to-morrow morning mainly for this purpose. — e DIPLOMATS ARE ELATED. Extracts Cabled to Representatives of American Republics. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 17.—The diplomatic representatives of American republics in Washington were highly elated over the President’s message and nearly all of them cabled copious extracts of the document to their respective gov- ernments. Ever since the Corinto affair they had been somewhat “despondent over the supposed indisposition of the United States to resist foreign aggression on the American continent, but to-day they could not find language adequate to express their admiration for President Cleveland’s forcible utterances, particnlarly in regard to the possible resort to other competitions than those *‘in the arts of peace.” None of the American Ministers or charges d'affaires, however, consented to speak authoritatively for their govern- ments in the absence of instructions, ror would any be led into a public interview on the subject. One who has had perhaps more e xperi- ence in the international affairs of the United States than most of his colleagues in the diplomatic corps said that while he was gratified to see that the United States had finally taken a firm stand on the Mon- roe doctrine, it would be unwise to con- sider it established in the code of nations, and, although he believed European nations would be compelled to recognize its force hereafter, he was not by any means sure that its effect could be made retroactive, as its application to the Vene- zuelan matter certainly would be. Aside from tiis, he hoped (amd in this he be- lievec all American republics would sup port the United States) that England would be forced, by war if necessary, to give up the territory she had stolen from Venezuela and he trusted that Congress would authorize the executive to furnish arms and men to drive out the 40,000 squatters referred to by Lord Salisbury. Another representative of a Government that has a dispute with Great Britain, asa matter of land grabbing differing only in degree from that of Venezuela, declared that if the United States was sincere in this matter and supported President Cleve- land’s suggestions for a boundary commis- sion beyond England’s influence, it would result in that great desideratum, an al- liance both for pesce and for war of the most progressive American republics. The boundary question in Alaska, he said, could then be as quickly setiled as that in Venezuela, and the rapid encroachments of Belize on both Mexico and Guatemala would be terminated, and ihe title to the territory of Brazil now claimed by France and British Guiana would be terminated. ‘With the bulldozing power of Great Britain nullified, he believed her commercial su- premacy would disappear and that trade would flow on north and south lines in- stead of east and west. Another of the South American repre- sentatives was disposed, in view of the attitude of the United States in past years and the peculiar political conditions now existing in this country, to await the sober second thought of the people in regard to the message. He thoughi he should like to hear what Senator Sherman (the new chairman of the Foreign Relations Com- mittee) said about the readiness of the United States to go to war about Vene- zuela, where its interests were so small compared with what they were presumed to be in Nicaragua and Cuba. This opinion was that Great Britain would not recede behina the Schomburg line in the British Guiana claim and that the United States would not resort to force in the at- tempt to compel her to do so. He thought, however, that Lord Salisbury would very promptly concede the remainder of the Venezuelan contention, including control of the Orinocco’s mouth, and that the United States would secure Venezuela’s acquiescence in that boundary. Senor Andrade, the Venezuelan Minis- ter, expressed himself as thoroughly grat- ified with the recommendations of the President and is confident that the en- thusiasm in Venezuela when the main points of the message are received there will be very great. He considers as re- markable the deep insight into the question shown by the President, and can find no words strong enough to commend the masterly presentation of the facts of the controversy by Secretary Olney. 1n re- gard to the commaission, Senor Andeade believed it would be most welcome to Venezuela, a similar commission having — Apollinaiis “THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS? Received the HIGHEST AWARD at the WORLD'S FAIR, and at the ANTWERP EXHIBITION. JOHN CAFFREY, 47 First street, San Francisco. REPRESENTING Charles Graet & Co., N. Y., for Mineral Waters been recommended by the representatives of that country in London in 1893 to Lord Rosebery. That proposition provided for eight or ten men of the highest tecbnical attainments, including lawyers, to exam- ine the legal portion of the controversy, and in case of failure of this commission to agree that the points left disputed would be referred to arbitration. The Minister thinks the commission suggested by the President could complete its labors without going to Venezuela in a few months from material available in this country. e LODGE INDORSES CLEVELAND. It Arbitration Is Refused Aggres= sion Must Be Resisted. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 17.—Com- menting on the President’s message Sena- tor Lodge (R.) of Massachusetts said: “This message is the most serious and important which has been submitted by any President to Congress for many years. As a matter of course I heartily approve of its spirit, its conclusions and the gen- eral position taken, for I took the same grounds myself last June in an article in the North American Review before public attention had been drawn to the matter at all, and again in an interview which I gave to the correspondent of a New York news- paper last October in Paris. The Presi- dent argues briefly the standing of the Monroe doctrine as a matter of inter- national law. I do not myself think that it is a question of international law at all. Itisreally a mere question of fact, like the independence of the United States. “The President seems also to have gone to the very verge of safety in stating that we should assent to any amicable agree- ment between Venezuela and Great Britain as to boundaries. We undoubtedly should do so in this instance, but we should equally, of course, not assent to indefinite cessions of territory by any South Ameri- can state to a European power. For ex- ample, any attempt of Great Britain to take possession of Cuba under a cession from Spain, which the morning papers state is in contemplation, would be re- garded by the United States as an act of war. The President, however, has, I think, guarded his statement on this point from being drawn into a precedent by the use of the word ‘boundaries.’ “But these are small points, compara- tively speaking. The main contention of the message is thoroughly sound and will meet with universal support. That con- tention is that Great Britain, on the pre- text of a boundary dispute, has seized American territory which she did not hold prior to 1823; that she has declined to submit the gquestion to arbitration, and thus proposes to hold the disputed terri- tory by force. This being the case, as the President states, there is nothing for the United States to do under these circum- stances but to determine the true divi- sional line between Venezuela and Guiana and then resist by all means in her power any attempt of the British to take terri- tory beyond that line. “This is a sound American position. I do not myself believe that the Engiish people have the least desire to engage in hostilities with the United States; they care but little and know less about the Venezuelan dispute; they do not realize that, while 1t is a mere question of more or less territory to England, it involves for the United States a principle as vital almost to their rights and interests as a nation as their own independence. Am- bitious politicians in England, eager for personal political reasons to distinguish themselves by a vigorous foreign public- spirited colonial policy, have undertaken to push and browbeat the United States until they have brought the two countries nearly to the verze of war. It is to be hoped that the President’s message will make the English people understand that this is to us a vital question; that we are wholly content to leave it to arbitration; but that if arbitration is declined we shall resist this aggression to the utmost, and that, although we do not seek war, we do not fear it.” P A TO RETURN SECURITIES. Englishmen May Further Decrease the Gold Reserve. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 17.—The opinion is expressed in treasury circles that the President’s message to Congress to-day on the Venezuelan boundary ques- | tion will have the effect of causing the re- | turn by English holders of American se- curities and stocks for sale, and thus farther depleting the treasury gold reserve, asgold would have to be sent abroad in payment of them. . CLEAR-CUT AMERICAN. Congressmen Pleased With the Presi= dent’s Firm Utterances. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 17.—The President’s message accompanying the Salisbury correspondence was first brought to the attention of the House through the medium of an ‘“extra” hurriedly puton the street by a local paper. Its firm tone created a mild sensation, although it has been stated by administration men re- cently thai its sentiments would gratify the most ardent **jingoists.” Livingston of Georgia, who has been conspicuous in- his championship of Ven- ezuela, found much to commend in the message. He said: ““Mr. Cleveland’s mes- sage is clear-cut American. He distinctly recognizes the Monroe doctrine in all its length and breadth and as specially ap- plicable 1n the dispute pending between Great Britain and Venezuela. ‘He declares emphatically for resistance against British oppression, and like the man he is against further delay and further appeals on our part for arbitration. His message will find a warm response in the hearts of all Americans.” Representative Sherman (R.) of New York said: “The message has to it an American ring that is as gratifying as it has been unusual during this' administra- tion. Iam glad to commend it without qualification.” Representative Quigy (R.) of New York: “President Cleveland’s message is admir- able in every respect. I shall vote for the commission he proposes and entertain the policy he outlines in every way I can. The Presideni has met his duty in a manner which is at once dignified, equitable and complete, and the sentiment of all parties and of the whole country will indorse his position heartily.” Grosvenor (R.) of Ohio said: “The mes- sage is a strong, clean-cut demand for the observance and defense of the Monroe doc- trine, and in the light of the dispatches from the British Government it is only 2 little short of a declaration of war unless England recedes or seeks further diplo- macy. The position taken by the Presi- dent is, at first glance, a étep in advance of our former official declarations of our country. 1f the attitude of England as announced is the ultimatum, then the message is 2 menace of war. “It may be said in friendly criticism of the message that it has possibly gone just a shade too far in this direction and ap- parently the President does not feel much need of Congressional action. To ascer- tain by a commission to be sent to a for- eign country to ascertain, decide and re- port upon a dispute between two other countries, is novel and will possibly lead to results which Congress will not be willing to contribute to.” McCall (R.) of Massachusetts: “The message of the President is a spirited and noble document and should receive the united support of both parties.” Russell (R.) of Conneeticut: “The mes- sage is good. Anything less would be un- patriotic and cowardly in a President of the United States. Its suggestion is pru- dent, perhaps, and allows England a chance to retract. It is not necessary and we do not want to dally any over this con- troversy.” McCreary (D.) of Kentucky, who was chairman of the Foreign Affairs Com- mittee in the last Congress, said: “It is vigorous, positive and able. firm and positive course taken by the President, and I believe the House of Representatives will support him in his | efforts to uphold the Monroe doctrine and prevent Great Britain from making illegal encroachmefits on the territory of Venezuela.” In the Senate the reading of the message was concluded amid applause on both sides of the chamber, although it was more pronounced on the Republican side. Among those who discussed the message were the following: Brice (D.) of Ohio said: “The idea of appointing a commission suggests a long continuance of the discussion. Commis- sions drawing a per diem do not conclude their labors speedily, and no one can tell when this commission would cease to draw its per diem.” Gorman (D.) of Maryland said: “It is a very thorough, emphatic and strong American megsage. It looks very much as if the President intended to enforce the Monroe doctrine.” Pugh (D.) of Alabamasaid: *On this matter Democrats and Republicans come together with one accord. I am for war and free coinage. The message certainly NEW TO-DAY. MAKING IT WARM FOR SOMEBODY! Good Warm Overcoats and Ulsters, The best interlinings, the best workman- ship are used in the making. OVERCOATS —— AND —— ULSTERS “THE HUB,” CORNER Kearny and Sutter. As low as $7.50 and as high as $55s. HOLIDAY JOTTINGS Smoking Jackets, Gowns, Bat Mackintoshe: el Underwear, Shirts, Sus- naers, Neckwear, Hosiery, Gloves, mbrellas, Canes. MONEY BACK IF YOU WANT IT. Open Evenings till 9. NO BRANCHES. LOOKI! ATTHE 10 PER CENT REDUCTION AT JOE POHEIM’S, the Tailor. 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