New Monroe Doctrine Plan.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 31, 1912:
Senators Proposed Restriction, Which Would Affect Japanese.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, July 30.— Although all fear of Japanese aggression at Magdalena Bay is past, a sub-committee of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations decided to-day to take steps against the occupation of any important harbor in the Western hemisphere by any persons who might in the end turn it over to a foreign power.
    A resolution, which has been considered by Senators Lodge, Root, Hitchcock, and Rayner, will be reported to a full committee on Thursday, recommending an extension of the Monroe Doctrine which would make impossible such incidents as the recent furore over alleged Japanese designs.
    Mr. Lodge, who was seriously alarmed by the reports that Japan sought to gain a hold on Magdalena Bay, introduced a resolution several months ago directing the committee to take up the matter. To-day's action by the sub-committee is the result.
    Mr. Lodge was of the opinion then and still believer that the fishing concessions granted to a Japanese syndicate on the coast north and south of Magdalena Bay and extending inland for fifteen miles was not altogether designed for catching fish. His idea was that the syndicate would be used as a screen, behind which on the desert coast concealed batteries could be erected and the harbor put in a condition of defense. Then when the time came that Japan should decide to go to war with the United States the innocent looking colonists at the bay would simply don their uniforms, man their guns, and run up the flag of the rising sun.
    The military authorities agree that Magdalena Bay, if fortified, would be of tremendous military importance to Japan as a base of operations against our Pacific Coast.
    Mr. Lodge favors a resolution on the subject which shall be unmistakable in its reference to the Magdalena Bay incident. Senator Root urges more diplomatic language, which will cover all such concessions and be not so pointed as to affront Japan. Mr. Hitchcock also favors the less definite language.
    It is thought likely that a carefully phrased resolution will be presented by the full committee to the Senate, where it will be adopted with practically no opposition.