In my speech upon the Panama tolls bill I took the liberty to state to the Senate that I thought I saw a coming disposition on the part of these nations by arrangement to eliminate the United States from the oriental sphere. Later. in discussing the Philippine bill and the amendment of the Senator from Arkansas . I then alluded again to what I saw would ultimately transpire. and stated that. among the reasons to be given. would be that we were excluding these people from our sphere. and that they therefore had the right to exclude both ourselves and our goods from theirs. that Japan and her allies would assume to establish an Asiatic Monroe doctrine. excluding the Western Hemisphere from the affairs of Asia. Now. Mr.