The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-25
WORK IN THE SENATE.
Interesting Debate on Foreign Relations
 Committee Report.

Committee Report.
 Washington, Jan 24.--The concurrent resolution reported last Wednesday on the subject of outrages on the Ar menians was laid before the senate, and Mr. Cullom, rep, of Illinois, a member of that committee, addressed the senate. He said he was amazed, astcunded and appalled, at the brief ac- counts which he had had of the awful carnival of havoc, destruction and blood which had prevailed for time in a country with which the United States maintained amicable relations. Tn concurrent and accumulated tes- timony of hundreds of thousands of in telligent people, Christian and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, European and American, made it absolutely certain that massacre of innocents, unparal- leled for ages, had been perpetrated in the Armenian provinces of Turkey. Fire and sword had swept away over many square miles of territory, the last vestige of Armenian human life. And over 200 villages the demon of damna- ton and fanatioal hate had spread ruin, desolation and death. The English gov ernment had a direct obligation resting on it to protect the Arnenians. And yet nothing had been done by 1t, nor by any of the other powers, looking to the enforcement of their treaty ob- legations, beyond mere diplomatic cor responderlce between them and the sul- tan It had therefore semed to the com- mittee on foreign relations that it could do nothing less than appeal to the pow CTS to carry out their pledges, as it did in the concurrent resolution.
 AS to the right of the United States to protect it's own citizens everywhere, no odds were asked from any nation on earth Mr. Cullom quoted from speech of Danie' Webster these words: "There is some thing among men more capable of shaking despotic power than the lightning, the whirlwind, the earth ouake; and that is the excited and aroused indignation of the whole civil ized world" and he added that he knew of nothing which had happened in the interference than these slaughters of Armenian Christians.
 Mr. Blanchard, dem, of Louisiana, thought that the resolution did not go far enough and intirnated that the com- mfttee on foreign relations had been slow in it's report The committee was defended by MT. Frye, rep, Of Maine. He said that two missionaries had told the committee last year that if Ameri- can, cogNsulates were established at Erze- roun and Harpoot the troubles would cease. On the recommendation of the committee congress had provided for the oonsulates The Turkish government however had refused exequaturs to the consuls sent from the United States. He did not know what the executive had done as to that refusal for whether 1t could do anything, but it seemed to him that some pressure should be brought to bear. If the consulate had been estab- lished at Harpoot over 10000 lives would have been saved there.
 MT. Frye said that Great Britain had never done one kindly act to the United States. Applause in the galleries.) She had availed herself of every opportunity to hurt the United States He referred to Grsat Britain's efforts to help the southern Confederacy and to help France in Mexico and then in substance said: q admit that Great Britain is the greatest power on earth and the most magnificent power ever seen in the history of the world upon the ocean. But do not admit that she is a friend of the United States or has ever ex- hfbited the slightest sign of friendship for us. And now she is sitting quietly