The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-25
SENATORS AND THE ScIMITAR.
MOSLEMIsWs CARNIVAL OF BLOOD
APPALs THE NATION.

] AiOhs Engiund's tONurdfCe in the
Matter Made PIain-NO odds Asked
of Any Nation on Earth as to the
Right of This Country to Protect
Its Citizens.
Its Citizens in Every Part of the
Globe.
! Washington, Jan. 2l-The committee on
| privileges and elections was given permis-
sion to Sit during the sessions OF the SEN
| ate TO consider the Dupont election case
! from Delaware.
| Mr.. Caffery had the Presidents s commun-
| ication as to the non-payment of the SUI
/ gar bounties transferred from the finance
committee to the judiciary committee and
made statement explanatory OF the ques-
/ tiOns in dispute. The controller of the
! treasury, he said, in refusing to pay the
claim, because he had determined the law
unconstitutional, had set up new con-
struction. Never heretofore had a subor-
! dinate official of the government assumed
the power to nullify practically an appro-
! priation made by congress.
! The concurrent resolution reported last
| Wednesday from the committee on foreign
! relations on the subject of outrages on
| the Armenians was laid before the Sem
ate, and Mr.. Cullom. rep, of Illinois, a
member of that committee, addressed the
Senate. He said that he was amazed as
founded and appalled,a at the brief accounts
which he had read of the awful carnival
of havoc, destruction and blood which had
prevailed for a time, in a country with
| which the United States maintained ami
| cable relations. The concurrent and ac-
/ cumulated testimony of hundreds and
! thousands of intelligent people. Christian
! and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Euro
pean and American, made absolutely GER
| tain that massacre of innocents, unpar-
| alleled 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 in over two
| hundred villages the demon of damnation
| and fanatical hate had spread ruin, desc
| latlOn and death. The English govern
| ment had direct obligation resting on it
to protect the ArmenanS, and yet nothing
had been done by it. nor by any of the
| other powers, looking to the enforcement
| of their treaty obligations, beyond mere
| diplomatic correspondence between them
and the sultan. 1t had therefore seemed
to the committee on foreign relations that
| IL could do nothing less than appeal TO the
| powers to carry out their pledges, as II
did in the concurrent resolution.
AS to the right of the United States to
protect its own citizens everywhere no
! odds We're asked from any nation on
| of Daniel Webster these words; There
| is something among men more capable OF
| shaking despotic power than the light
| ming the whirlwind, the earthquake; and
| that is. the excited and aroused indigna-
tion of the whole civilized world, and ne
| added that he knew of nothing which had
| happened in the world for centuries that
more called for interference than these
| slaughters of Armenian Christians.
Mr.. Blanchard, dem;, of louisiana
expressed his icy that reis t,dRs 5ns cPm 5ad
| at last reported resolution
giving expression to the adherence ,i! felt
| bv the American people at the atrocities
perpetrated on the Christian inhabitants
| of Turkish Armenia. He favored that res
olution, although, perhaps, it did not go
N Mr.. ei'fSfS5 Frye. who is second on the COM
| mittee on foreign relations, took excep-
tion to Mr.. Blanchard's remarks about
| that committee having at last reported
| the resolution He said that, at the last
| session of congress, the committee on
| foreign relations had given nearing 10
| two missionaries to Turkey both or Whom
| he knew personally, and one of whom was
a resident of his own city. They had sta
| ted the grievances, the troubles, the mas
| sacres and their fears. They had been
! asked what was the remedy, and they had
told the committee that II consulates
were established at Erzeroum ana Har-
| DOOt, the troubles would cease, because
! The eve of America would be on that sec
| tion of country. In less than week
| after that the committee on foreign rela-
| tions had reported an amendment to the
| consular and diplomatic appropriation bill
| providing for these two consulates, ana
| become q w.
| ernment, however, had refused eXequa-
| tIrs to the two consuls sent from the
| United States. He did not know what
| the executive department had done as to
| that refusal or whether it could do any
| thing But it seemed 70 him that some
| pressure ought to be brought to bear.
| If that consulate had been estab-
| Hshed at Harpoot and if consulate
| building had been provided and an Amer
| lean flag raised upon it, more than 2OOOO
l lives would have been saved there, as
| one of the most terrible maSsacres had
! taken place at that point. The people or
| the United States he said, had planted in
| Turkey over $4,000 900 for one single pur-
Dose-that they might better and improve
| the condition of the people of Turkey.
They had erected there as fine colleges
| as there were in the world, ana these col
| leges had been maintained by American
| money They had educated thousands
| and hundreds of thousands of Turks or
| Armenians (who were subjects of Tur-
| key) 1t had been a work of wonderful
| benefcence, and had a marvellous sue
cess. And yet to-day, that work was alb
! sOlutely stopped, ana American capital
| was held up. The American colleges at
| Harpoot were burned down and the Amer
leans themselves were compelled to flee
! for their lives.
II do not know" he continued, "how far
| the United states Of America can inter-
/ fere in Turkey. 1 am in favor of this res
| olution as an expression of our opinion
! upon those awful tragedies. But, if L
| had my way (after these powers of Eu
| rope had waited now a solid year, looking
| each other in the face with suspicious eyes
and fearing each TO make a move lest the
others should receive benefit from it,, L
would have congress memorabilia Russia
| and say TO her Take Armenia in your
| possession; protect the lives of those
| Christians there, and the United States
| of America will stand behind you with all
| it's power applause in the galleries)
Il do not love Great Britain particular
| ~ and could not give my assent to the
| marvellous eulogium upon Great Britain
| delivered here the day before yesterday
1 say that from the time that this coun-
| try was peopled by Englishmen down to
the day i am talking, Great Britain has
never done one single kindly act to the
United States applause in the galleries)
or to her colony-not one / say that she
has availed herself of every single op-
portunity that came to her power to hurt
the United States and to harm the coun-
try when it was a colony of Great Britain
/ say that while Great Britain had been
for half a century taunting us upon our
flag of freedom and our declaration of
Independence, with holding slaves and put
ting manacles upon their feet and hands
taunting us year after year, and asking
us what our declaration Of independence
meant. the moment the south revolted and
undertook to set up a confederacy the
! cornerstone of which was slavery forever