Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-01-22
MONDAY, JANUARY 10. 1894.


Mr.. Speaker laid before the House a com
munication from the Treasury Department.
containing the annual statement of rhe "a
mount received 10y the several clerks in that
department, during the year 1928.
Also, from the same Department. the repor,
OF the Director of the Mint, giving the results
of sundry assays made in pursuance of nstruc
tons from that department.
Mr.. Floyd, from the committee 10 whom
the subject was referred, reported bill To an
thorlze the occupation uf the Columbia Oh
oregon river; which was twice read, aud com
mitted.
The engrosscd bill concerning invalid pen
sIoners was read third Tune, PASSED, and
sent TO the Senate for concurrence
Mr.. Tod, from the Committee on MANN
features, gave notice that, this day two weeks
he should cali up the tariff bill, and he pre-.
scented statement of the comparative duties
as now existing by law, and as proposed by
that bill ; which was ordered to be printed.
THE GREEK QUESTION.
The House then went into committee of
the whole, Mr.. Taylor in the chair, on the re-
solution some time siuce offered by Mr.. Web
ster, which is in the words following:
ReSotred, That provision ought TO be made
by law for defrayins the expense incident TO
the appointment of an Agent, or Commits
sioner, TO Greece. whenever the President
shall deem it eXpcdient to make such appoint
ment."
Mr.. w. addressed the House at considerable
length, and thus concluded: Mr.. Chairman.
there are some things which, to be well done,
must he promptly done. If we even deter
mine to do the thing that is now proposed,
we may do il too late. Sir, am n OF of those
who are for Withholding aid when it is most
urgently needed, and when the stress is pas
and the aid no longer necessary, overwhelm-
ing the sufferer with caresses. I will NOT
stand by and see my fellow man drowning
without stretching out hand TO help him, till
he has by his own efforts and presence OF mind
reached the shore in safety, and then encum-
Der him with aid With suffering Greece, now
IS the crisis of her fate-har great, it may be,
her last struggle. Sir while we sit here de-
hberating, he destiny may be decided. The
Greeks, coDtending with ruthless oppressors,
turn their eyes to us, and invoke us by their
ancestors, by their slaughtered wives and chill
dren, by their own blood, poured out like wa
ter by the hecatombs of dead they have heap
ed up as it were TO heaven, they invoke, the V
Impiore us for some cheering sound, some look
of sympathy, some token of cOmpassiOnate re-
gard. They look TO us as the great Republic
of the earth-and they ask us by our common
faith, whether can forget that they are
~ "SS"pSi DIS we phce Struggled ioT Wnat we
now so happily erjoy cannot say, sir, that
they will succeed that rests with Heaven
But for my SELF sir, if l should Tomorrow hear
that they have faiIed-that their last phalanx
had sunk beneath thu Turkish cimetar, that
the flames oi their last city had sunk IN its ash
es. and that nOught remained but the wide
melancholy waste where Greece once was,
should still reflect, with the most heartfelt sat
istaction, that have asked you, in the name
of seven millions of freemen that you would
give them at least the cheering OF one friendly
voice.
The committee then rose, and reported pro-
sress, and having had leave TO sit again,
The Hnuse adinirned