Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1890 — BRAZIT AND THE UNITED STATES. [ARTICLE]

BRAZIT AND THE UNITED STATES.

There was a long and lively debate in theU. S. Senate Saturday, which for some reason, was divided by party lines. Mr Morgan called up a joint resolution recog.: nizing the United States of Brazil as a free , independent and sovereign State, and pro ' ceeded to address the advocacy of it. Mr. • Morgan declared that the attitude of the United States in respect to all the countries in the Western Hemisphere was a very distinct one. That attitude has been assumed veryearly in the history of the American Government —assumed separately and confidently—and had been reasserted on every opportune occasion from the date of its announcement by President Monroe down to the last message from the : President of the United States. He. coincided with the declaration made' by Thomas Jefferson that) it was th business andduty of the United States to proceed to make, to progress in making, and ultimately to consummate the making of the Western Hemisphere the home of republican institutions, and not the home of despotic institutions. If the empire were ever re established, it would be so against the Monroe doctrine

and in spite of it. The Congress of the United States had the absolute right to recognize the non-existence of the empire and the existence of the Republic, and he desired to have that recognition placed on record plainly, boldly—he would not say defiantly, Lu doing so now immense trouble to Brazil might be saved. The secret machinations that were now at work for the restoration of the empire would be broken up. He bad read in this morning’s papers a London dispatch predicting troubulous times in Brazil, and speaking of combine- j tions of the conservative and clerical elements there. There was no reason, he said, why Congress should withhold its hand in coming to the declaration proposed and placing it on the statute books, letting the world know that Brazil had friends in this grand republic who were ready to stand by the principles of their government. He therefore moved the adoption of the resolution.. A long discussion followed, in which many Senators took part. Finally the question was taken on a motion to refer 1 the resolution to the Committee on Foreign Relations. All the Republicans voted yea, and all the Democrats, except Mr. Cali, who voted no. There was, however, no quorum voting (yeas 26, nays 15), and the whole matter went over without definite action. «