The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-01-23
THE 4RMENIaN RESOLUTION.
Full Text of 1t as Submitted to the Senate
Yesterday.


Washington, Jan. 22.-The following
is the text of the Armenian resolution
reported to the senate to-day by the
foreign relations committee:
Whereas, The supplementary treaty
of Berlin of July 13, 1878, between the
Ottoman empire and Great Britain, Ger
many, Austria, France, Italy and Rus
sia contains the following provisions:
61--The sublime porte undertakes to
carry out without further delay the
ameliorations and reforms demanded by
local requirements in the provinces in
haibited by the Armenians and to gua.-
antee their security against the Circas-
slams and Kurds.
1t will periodically make known the
steps taken to this effect to the powers
and will superintend their application.
62-The sublime porte, having express
ed the wish to maintain the principle of
religious liberty to give it wide scope,
the contracting parties take note of this
spontaneous declaration.
In no part of the empire shall differ
ences of religion be alleged as ground
for exclusion or incapacity as regards
the discharge of civil and political
rights, admission to the public service.
functions and honors and the exercise
of the different professions and indus
tries
All persons shall be admitted without
distinction of religion to give evidence
before the tribunals
Liberty and the outward exercise of
all forms of worship are assured to all
and no hindrance shall be offered either
to the hiearchial organization of the va
rious communions or to their relations
with their spiritual chiefs.
The right of offici111a protection by the
diplomatic and consular agents of the
powers in Turkey is recognized both as
regards the above mentioned persons
and their religious, charitable and 9TH
er establishments in the holy places;
and
Whereas, The extent and object of
the above cited provisions of said treaty
are to place the Christian subjects of
the porte under the protection of the
other signatories thereto, and to secure
to such Christian subjects full liberty
of religious worship and belief the
equal benefit of the laws and all the
privileges and immunities belonging to
any subjects of the Turkish empire; and
Whereas, BY said treaty the Christian
powers, parties thereto, having estab-
lished under the consent of Turkey,
their right to accomplish and secure the
above recited objects, and
Whereas, The American people, in
common with all Christian people ev-
erywhere, have beheld with horror the
recent appalling outrages and massa-
cres of which the Christian population
of Turkey have been made the vic
tins:
Resolved, By the senate OF the United
States, the house of representatives con-
curing, that it is an imperative duty
in the interests of humanity to express
the earnest hope that the European con-
cert brought about by the treaty referred
to. may speedily be given it's just effects
in such decisive measures as shall stay
the hand of fanaticism and laWless vio-
lence and as shall secure to the unof-
Tending Christians of the Turkish en-
pire all the rights belonging to them
both as men and as Christians and as
beneficiaries of the explicit provisions of
the treaty above recited..
Resolved, That the president be re-
quested to communicate these resolu
tions to the governments of Great Brit
ain. Germany, Austria, France, Italy
and Russia.
Resolved, Further, that the senate,
the house of representatives concurring,
will support the president in the most
vigorous action he may take for the pro-
itx- 1f aifi-
zens in Turkey and to obtain redress for
injuries committed on the persons or
property of such citizens.