The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-29
Sway Of the Sword Should Be
Checked by Most Drastic
Measures.
THURsToN oNMoNRoE DOCTRINE
IN Discussing the Debs Case Allen
Lays the Lash on Judge
Woods.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 28-There
were three speeches made in the Senate
to-day on the House bond bill, with the
free coinage substitute, reported from the
Committee on Finance. Two of them
were in favor of the substitute and one
against it. The former were made by
Senators Clark (R.) of Wyoming ana
Voorhees, CD of Indiana; the latter by
Senator Gray 3D. OF Delaware.
Notice of an amendment was given by
Teller (R.) of Colorado, requiring the pay
ment of National bank notes in coin,
when presented for redemption at the
bank of issue. An Intellectual effort was
made to have unanimous consent given to
have the bill voted on next Thursday The
objection came from Hill CD of New
York.
Turpie CD of Indiana, in presenting a
memorial on the subject of the Armenian
horrors, INDUCED in fierce invective
against the Sultan and Mahommedanism
and Thurston (R.) of Nebraska made an
equally strong representation in favor of
the maintenance OF the Monroe doctrine
The speech was applauded at various
points.
In presenting petition in regard to the
Armenians Turpie Cd OF Indiana spoke of
the recent outrages upon them and said
that the only charge against them-their
only crime-was being Christians.
The time had come, he aaid, when an
official notification should be given to Tur-
key and to the Mohammedan church that
they must cease to prose!ytize by the
sword. The sway of the Turk, he said,
was only endured and supported on &C
count of those international jealousies that
clustered around the transatlantic seq
ment OF the Mediterranean called the bal
ance of power in Europe.
The Turks ought to be notified that they
must erase from their book of discipline
that practice of the Mohammedan church
murder to suppress the Christian
faith. And he would have that
notification followed by a shot which
would go crashing through the grand
seraglio. He was in favor of giving 1.-THE
sick man" of the Bosphorus the coup de
grace ana of ending his life and system by
dissolution and destruction. 1t was time
that those murderers and assassins should
know Him who was born to the world at
Bethlehem and was raised at Nazareth,
and that when he comes again to punish
such wretehes as those he brings with him
not peace but a sword"
Mr.. Turpie spoke with intense vehe-
mence and bitterness, and his speech at
tracted marked attention.
Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska gave notice of
an amendment to the bond and freedom
age bill-depriving the Secretary of the
Treasury of the power to issue bonds or
other Understanding Obligations OF the
Government, unless Congress shall first
declare necessity therefor.
The resolution heretofore offered by
Cali Cd of Florida for a special com
mittee to investigate the case of the i'm
prisonment of Eugene V. Debs for con-
tempt of court was laid before the Senate.
and Call said that he had offered the reso-
luton at the request of labor association.
Hill Cd of New York said that ordin-
arily he had very great respect for the
laboring people of the United States, but
was not aware of communication from
the laboring people asking the Senate for
the proposed Investigation. II it was to
be made be thought it should be by one of
the standing committees of the Senate.
He, therefore, offered an amendment in
structing the Judiciary Committee to in
vestigate the whole subject of contempts
of court as enforced by Federal courts.
Cali opposed the amendment and spoke
of the standing committees of the Senate
as the sepulchres of popular movements
for reform and of Eugene " Debs as ga
great leader, a man of power and railroad
man"
Hill argued that, as the question in
volved was judicial one, it should be re-
ferred 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.
Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska asserted that
the Supreme Court had done nothing of
the kind; it had merely decided that the
writ OF habeas 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 Judge
who had imprisoned Debs), if he knew the
stain that hung upon him when he was
appointed as reward for political trick
cry" the Senator would not give much for
his decision.
Hill said that he was not called upon to
criticize Judge Woods decision. It was
enough for him that Debs had appealed to
the highest court of the United States and
had obtained no relief.
In the course of further discussion Allen
said that he could not help being i'm
pressed with the thought that the Senate
was organized mot to do business
Gordon CD of Georgia reminded the
Senators that the hour had arrived when
the Senator from Nebraska (Thurston)
WAS to address the Senate.
The Call resolution was thereupon laid
aside and Thurston (R.) of Nebraska adj
dressed the Senate on the question OF the
Monroe doctrine.
Thurston said that the adoption of the
resolution reported by the Committee on
Foreign Affairs would present great in
ternational issue which might hold much
OF menace to the worlds peace. He could
not assume these responsibilities and dare
not vote for the resolution without first
submitting some of the reasons which
seemed to make the path of duty plain.
Were there nothing at stake but mere adj
iustment of a boundary line between VEN