Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-29
F|FTY-FOURTH CONGRESS The Senate Proceedings Quite Interesting Yesterday BUTTHE HOUSE WAS DULL Finance, the Monroe Doctrine and the Debs
 Case Were Discussed THURST0N DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF His Speech in Favor of the Monroe Doctrine Was Greeted With Round of Ap-
 plause-Turpie Ripped Tur-
 key Up the Back.
BUT>THE HOUSE WAS DULL
THURSTON DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF

Washington, Jan. 28.-The diplomatic and consular appropriation bill went through the house today without discus sion and, practically, without amend ment. MT. Hit, chairman of the commit tee on foreign affairs, explained the con- dtionS made in the text of the law for the current year, and MT. McCreary stated that in his opinion they were all essential to the welfare of the service. The bill had the unanimous support of the committee
 Bills were passed authorizing the sec retary of state to convene the interna- tional marine conferences, and authoriz- ing officers and soldiers of the army who are members of the Sons of Veterans to wear a badge of that society on occa- sions of public ceremony.
 Upon hearing the formal announce ment of the death of the late Frederick Riemann. representative-eect of the Eighteenth Illinois district, made by his successor, MT. Hadley. republican, of Illinois. the house passed the usual resolution of regret. and at 2:35 o'clock adjourned until tomorrow.
 The Senate.
 Three speeches were made in the sen ate today on the house bond bill with the Tree cOlndSe SuDStllul6,- ftpOItSu HUH the committee on finance. Two Of them were in favor of the substitute and one against it. The former were made by Senators Clark, republican, of Wyoming, and Voorhees,, democrat, of Indiana; the latter by Senator Gray, democrat of Delaware. Notice of an amendment was given by MT. Teller, republican, of Colo rado requiring the payment of national bank notes in coin when presented for redemption at the bank of issue. An in- effectual effort was made to have unani- nous consent given to have the bill voted on next Thursday The objection came from MT. Hill.
 MT. Turpie, democrat. of Indiana, In presenting memorial on the subject of the Armenian horrors indulged in fierce invective against the sultan and Moham- mechanism The only charge against the Armenans, he said, and their only crime, was being Christians The time had come. he said. when an official notihca- tion should be given to Turkey and to the Mohammedan church that they must cease to proselytize by the sword. The sway of the Turk, he said. was only en- dured and supported on account of those international jealousies that clustered around the transatlantic segment of the Mediterranean called the balance or power" in Europe. The Turks ought to be notified that they. must erase from their book of discipline that practice Of the Mohammedan church which acknowi- edges the use of arson and murder 10 suppress the Christian faith, and ne would have that notification followed by a shot which would go crashing through the grand scraglO He was in faVor or giving the Sick Man of the Bosphorus coup de grace and of ending ms iie ana system by dissolution and destruction. IL was time that those murderers and as sassins should know who He was that was born to the world at Bethlehem and raised at Nazareth, and that when He comes again to punish such wretches as those He brings with Him not peace. put a sword.
 MT. Turpie spoke with Intense Ve- bemenco and bitterness and his speech attracted marked attention
 MT. Allen of Nebraska gave notice or an amendment to the bond and free com age bill, deprving the secretary or the treasury of the power to issue bonds or other interest bearing obligations of the government unless congress shall hrst declare necessity therefor. The resolution heretofore offered by MT. Call for a special committee to inves- tigate the case of the imprisonment or Eugene V. Debs. labor leader, for con tempt of court, was laid before the sen ate and MT. Call said that he had offered the resolution at the request or iaDor associa ton.
 MT. Hill said that ordinarily he had very great respect for the laboring peo-
  aware that any communication from the laboring people asked the senate for the proposed investigation. If 1t was to De made he thought 1t should be by one or the standing committees Of the senate. He therefore offered an amendment in- structing the judiciary committee to in vestjrate the whole subject of contempt of courts as enforced by federal courts.
 MT. Call opposed the amendment and spoke of the standing committees or the senate as the sepulchers of popular movements for reforms and of Eugene Dehs as great leader man or power and representative man.
 Mir Hill argued that as the question involved was judicial one. 1t should be referred to the judiciary committee. Be sides he said, the Debs case had already been decided in the supreme court to the effect that his imprisonment was legal.
 Mr Allen asserted that the supreme court had done nothing of the kind It had merely decided that the writ of ha- bcas corpus did not apply to the case. He added that if the senator from New York knew anything about this man woods (the United States circuit iudgc) who had imprisoned Debs; If he knew , the state of things that hung upon him when he was appointed as reward for political trickery. the senator would not give much for his decision.
 Mir Hill said that he was not called upon to criticise Judge Woods decision. It was enough for him that Bebs had appealed to the highest court of the United States and had obtained no re- lief.
 In the course of further discussion MT. Allen said that he could not help being impressed that the senate was organized "not to do business.
 Mfr. Gordon reminded senators that the hour had arrived when the senator from Nebraska MT Thurston. was to address the senate.
 The Call resolution was laid aside and Mir Thurston, republican, of Nebraska, addressed the senates-en the question of the Monroe doctrine. He took strong ground in favor of the maintenance of that doctrine. The challenge thrown