Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-01
A APPROACH ID HUMANITY Is the Existence of AbnuI Hamid,
 Says the Speaker. THE SULTAN RESPONSIBLE For the PiIlage, Rapne and Murder in Asia
 Minor IRISH HOME RULE HAS BEEN SlDETRACKED And the Education Bill Pushed Forward in the English Parliament-Big Appro- priation for Naval Extension.
 The Chinese Loan.
HE SULTAN RESPONSIBLE
RISH HOME RULE HAS BEEN sIDETRAcKED

London, NOV. 3U.-(Specia1 Cable Let | ter)-Neither the assent of the sultan to each of the powers having a second guar dianship at Constantinople nor the pro- | mitigation of paper reforms will quiet | the rising public wrath over the prog ress of his policy of extermination di- rected against the Christians of Asia
 Minor. The clamor for strong and de- csVe dealing with the sultan comes from conservatives and liberals alike. The popular conviction grows that Ab- dul Hamid is jockeying With the powers,
 and that the palace clique. to whom his | obstinacies and duplicity are attributed, agree with, but do not rule him. The Speakers Constantinople coTe- spondent, who first directed. attention
 to the Armenian outrages. has since be- come a recognized authority on the sub | ject. He declares that he has ample ev- | idence that the sultan is personally re- | sponsible for the whole series of masSa- l cres. He explains that the late outrages commenced as soon as the sultan accept | ed the reforms applying to six vilayets, giving Christians rights that depended on their numbers. The massacres have been chiefly confined to these vilayets, the object being to so reduce the number of Christians as to give them no claim to any influence. The work of extermina- llOH pTOCeeuS as SySl6HldltC dB IL IS possible for the Turkish authorities to carry it on. Both the Kurds and the troops are acting under the orders of the authorities in their work of pillage, rap inc and murder The correspondent esti- mates that 10000 persons were massacred between November IS and 25, while the sultan was posing himself as being de- sirouS of effecting reforms and as being benevolently inclined towards the Ar
 menians. Commenting upon the matter Ca, .tCl,o xln..k 41~ Speaker says that among the brutal murderers who are engaged in wiping out the Armenians there Is no one who | is so brutal and criminal as this wretch. | Abdul Hamid whose very existence Is @ | reproach to humanity. Can the civilized world, the paper asks, look on with no l stronger feeling than tepid disapproval while the monster, who owes his power to the protection of Great Britain, con- summates crime which Is almost with out parallel?
 The Yachtsmen, referring to the re- ported communication from the New York Yacht club to the Royal Yachts squadron, says that although as mat ter of courtesy to the New York Yacht club a general meeting of the squadron will be held to consider the message, there is general disinclination among the members to mix up the squadron in Lord Dunraven's sayings and doings, if 1t can possibly be avoided.
 
 berg in volunteering for service in the Ashantee expedition is to get some show of military service that will give the queen an excuse to place him on the ac- tive list of the army. At present he holds merely honorary position, to which no salary attaches. A single cam paign, with or without fighting, will qualify him for lucrative promotion. The queen wants to appoint her groom in-waiting, Gen. Sir M A. l}ddulph, to pocitton Of ch of ho Black Rod, made vacant by the death of Admiral Sir J. R. Drummond, If parlia- ment will permit her to do so. She Is willing that the committee of the house of lords shall fix his salary. The conn mittee is not willing to give Its assent, and in any event. 1t certainly will not al- low General Biddulph to occupy the old black rods of the residence in Westmn- ster. General Biddulph Is pluralist. He is keeper of the jewels in the tower of London in addition to being groom-in- waiting, and is a favorite of the queen. The committee of the national liberal federation is about to meet at Leeds to revise the party programme for accept ance by the general congress of the party that has been convened at Hudderfield. The supporters of local option have is- sued circular, the obvious purpose of which Is to again commit the liberals to the local veto, although the conviction permeates the party that this was the
 
 general election. AS the local veto plank got inserted in the new castle pro- gramme by fiuke, it is not likely that the committee will assent to its readop- tion. A majority favors the substitu- ton of general declaration that 1t is- necessary to deal with the drink ques- tion, leaving open the question of specific methods to be pursued.
 One section of the party urges that the question of Irish home rule be placed n h6 hQ al orr md or ciated with home rule all around. The certainty that the Irish vote in the house of commons will be thrown on the side of the government in favor of sectarian education alienates the greater part of the liberals. to whom the education ques- tion has assumed an importance far transcending any interest that they ever felt in home rule The feeling of the lib- erals Is faithfully voiced by Mir. Herbert Spencer, who, in commenting upon the impending struggle. says that the cleri- calls have striven and will strive to make the public help them to teach church dogmas. The bishops and the clergy at large, he says, are now fathering an act giving them state funds without state control with the arrogance common to priesthoods of all times and places, no
 matter of what creed they may be. They tell the state, We will say what shall be taught, and you shall pay for 1t. Under inspiration like this the liberal congress will place at the front of it's pro- gramme an appeal to the electors to re-. sent the governments sectarian educa- tion scheme The next plank will be one against the house of lords. The other | points of the Newcastle programme may | be formally reaffirmed to save appear ances, but local option and home rule will practically get shunted.
 Lord Roseberry and the ex-chief sec- retary for Ireland the Rt. Hon. John | Morley, will speak, but 1t Is improbable | that Sir William Vernon Harcourt will address the conference. The latter re-