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RC©RENeE Daily TTmes. VoL - IL FLORENCE, S. C., WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18 1895. N, v 115 YENEZDELA. SERIOUS TROUBLE - CLEVE LAND'S SPECIAL MESSAGE- The Chief Executive Stands Staunchly by the Sound Monroe Ooctrine-Britain Must Arbitrate or Fight- Washington, Dec , 17*—The President to-day transmitted to Congress the correspondence be tween the government of the Uni ted States and Great Britain with regard to Venezuela, together with the fcllowingspecial message: To the Congress: In my annual message addressed to (he Congress on the third instant, I called at tention to the pending boundary controversy between Great Britain and the Republic of Venezuela and recited the substance of a rep resentation made by this govern ment to her Britannic Majesty’s government suggesting reasons why such dispute should be sub mitted to arbitration for settle ment and inquiring whether it would be so submitted. The answer of the British gov ernment, which was then awaited, has since been received and, to gether with the dispatch to which it is a reply, is hereto appended. Such reply is embodied in two communications addressed by the British Prime Minister to Sir Ju lian Pauncefote, the British Am bassador at this capital. It will be seen that one of these communica tions is devoted exclusively to ob servations upon the Monroe Doc trine and claims that in the pres ent instance a new and strange ex tension and development of this doctrine is insisted on by the United States; that the reasons justifying an appeal to the doctrine enunciated by President Monroe are generally inapplicable “to the state of things in which we live at the present day,” and especially inapplicable to a controversy in voking the boundary line between Great Britain and Venezuela. “strong and sound.” Without attempting extended argument in reply to this position, it may not be amiss to suggest that the doctrine upon which we stand is strong and sound because its enforcement is important to our peace and safety as a nation and is essential to the integrity of our free institutions and the tran quil maintenance of our distinc tive form of government. It was intended to apply to every stage of our national life and cannot be come obsolete while our republic endures. If the balance of power is justly a cause for jealous an xiety among the governments of the old world and a subject for our absolute non-interference, none the less is an observance of the Monroe Doctrine of vital con cern to our people and their gov ernment. Assuming, therefore, that we may properly insist upon this doc trine without regard to “the state of things in which we live,” or any change in the conditions here or elsewhere, it ■ is not apparent why its application may not be in voked in the present controversy. If a European power, by an ex tension of its boundaries, takes possession of the territory of one of our neighboring republics against its will and in derogation of its rights, it is difficult to see why, to that extent, such Euro pean power does not thereby at tempt to extend its system of government to that portion of this continent which is thus taken. This is the precise action which President Monroe declared to be “dangerous to our peace and safe ty,” and it can make no difference whether the European system is extended by an advance of frontier or otherwise. It is also suggested in the British reply that we should not seek to apply the Monroe Doctrine to the pending dispute because it dose not embody any principle of international law which “is found ed on the general consent of na tions,” and that “no statesman how ev'-r eminent and no nation however powerful are competent to insert into the code of inter national law a novel principle which was never recognized before and which has not since been ac cepted by the government of any other country.” Practically the principle for which we contend has peculiar, if not exclusive, relation to the United States. It may not have been admitted in so many words to the code of international law, but since in international counsels every nation is entitled to the rights belonging to it, if the en forcement of t e Monroe Doctrine is something u’e may justly claim it has its place in the code of in ternational law men would agree to be salutary, it is more specifi cally mentioned, and when the United States is a suitor before j from all debts of the said debtor the high tribunal that administers j then existing or thereafter con- international law,'the question to j tracted except as hereinafter pro- m•% >. ...u..*u— -—*' •*u .-i. Provided be determined is whether or not we present claims which the jus tice of that code of law cannot find to be right and valid. The Monroe Doctrine (iods its recognition in those principles of international law which are based upon the theory that every nation vided: Provided, Th it in case any woman having a separate es tate shall be married to the head of a family who has not of bis own sufficient property to consti tute a homestead as hereinbefore provided, said married woman shall be entitled to a like oxemp- shall have its rights protected and tion as provided for the head of its just claims enforced. I the family: Provided, further, After further explanation of the I That there shall not bo an allow'- situation and advising a thorough ' anee of more than .i»i,000 worth investigation he then concludes) of real estate and more than $500 by saying: worth of personal property to the “In making these recommenda-j husband and wife jointly: Provi- tions I am fully alive to the re-'ded, further. That no property sponsibility incurred and keenly i shall be exempt from attachment, realize all the coiiseq-mnoes that j levy or sale fo,* taxes, or for pay- may follow.” ment «»f oM;g iLums contracted for “I am nevertheless fi 'm in my 1 the purchase of s.tid homestead or conviction that while it is a griev- personal property exemption ous thing to contemp'ate the two | or the erection or making of great English speaking peoples of improvements or repairs thereon: the world as being otherwise than friendly competitors in the on ward march of civilization and Provided, further, that the yearly products of said homestead shall not be exempt from attachment, strenuous and worthy rivals in all levy or sale for the payment of the arts of peace, there is no ca lamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the con sequent loss of national self-re spect and honor, beneath which is shielded and defended a people’s safety and greatness. The Constitution. CUT IT OUT AND PRESERVE FOR REFERENCE. IT ARTICLE 3, SECTIONS 28 TO 30 Sec. 28. The general assembly sbail enact such laws as will ex empt from attachment, levy and sale under any mesne or final pro cess issued from any court, to the head of the family residing in this State, a homestead in lauds, whether held in fee or any lesser estate to the value of $1,000 or so much thereof as the property is worth if its value is less than $1,000 with the yearly products thereof, and to every head of a family residing in this State, whether entitled to a homestead exemption in lands or not, perso nal property to the value of $500, or so much thereof as the property is worth if its value is less than $500. Ti io title to the homestead to be set off and assigned shall be obligations contracted in the pro duction of the same: Provided, further, That no waiver shall de feat the right of homestead before assignment except it be by deed of conveyance, or by mortgage, and only as against the mortgage debt ; and no judgment creditor or other creditor whose lien does not bind the Homestead shall have any right or equity to require that a lieu which e nbraces the homestead and other property shall first exhaust the homestead : Provided, further, That after a homestead in lands has been set off and recorded the sanw shall not le waived by deed of conveyance, mortgage or otherwise, unless the same be exe cuted by both husband and wife, if both be living: Provided, fur ther, That any person not the head of a family shall be entitled to a like exemption as provided for the neml of u family in all necessary wearing apparel and tools and implements of trade, not to exceed in value the sum ot $300. .See - 29. All taxes upon property, real and personal, shall be laid upon the actual value of the prop erty taxed, as the same shall be ascertained by an assessment made for the purpose of laying such tax. Gregg & Lynch headquarters fortoys, as well as all other Xmas, goods. Gregg & Lynch makes presents for young ladies and gentlemen absolute and be forever discharged a specialty.