The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-31
FROM WASHINGTON.
TILIMAN'S VOLLEY or BILLINGS
GATE.

4. observation-disclosures Adopts Armenia
Resuiutions--NVenkK need Resolution
, About Cubn--MOre Debate on the Sii
yer substitute FOR the Bond Bill.
: There have boon several NOR
, speeches in the Monroe doctrine reso
5 lutions this week. Senator Daniel DIVA
made Il strong one Friday in favor O
| the vigorous assertion of tho doctrine
but the most notable one OF the who'll
, debate was that Tuesday by Thurstol
OF Nebraska, Il son of Vermont, in re
ply TO Wolcott. We're there nothing
at stake, he said, but mere adjust
ment of a boundary line between Ven
ezucla and British Guiana he should
shesitate long before voting to commi
this government to any interference
But the present question rose high
above any Venezuelan dispute. Tho
British prime minister had seen fiji
to officially declare that the Monroe
doctrine had no place in the law OF
nations and was not recognized by the
European powers. The challenge thus
broadly thrown down by Great Britain
must be taken up by this republic, OF
the Monroe doctrine was u thing of
the past. This was the supreme hour
for dignified, positive and solemn dec
laration of the American purpose. clear
", calmly. deliberately stated, and he
declared his eagerness to vote for the
Davis resolution and his belief that
the country would spring to arms at
tho fret drumbeat and create the
grandest army the world had ever
| known.
The House Monday by a vote of 1A3
| to 90 passed tho concurrent resolu-
| lions passed by the senate on Friday
Ideploring the Armenian atrocities, APP
pealing to the six signatory powers of
the treaty Of Berlin to prevent CON
tinuance Of them, and pledging the
president the support Of congress in
any measure he may take to protect
American citizens and American prop
erty in the Turkish dominions. The
resolutions, being concurrent, do not
require the approval of the president,
but he must transmit them to the
governments of Great Britain, Russia,
Germany, France, Austria and Italy.
The opposition was entirely on the
ground that more vigorous action ought
to be taken. Hepburn of Idaho pro-
posed an amendment directing the
president to dismiss the Turkish min
lister and terminate all diplomatic re-
lations with Turkey. There was some
fiery talk over this amendment. but no
speech as eloquent rs that of Senator
Frye; and Chairman Hit was. able to
convince tho House that it could do
nothing more than to adopt the senate
resolutions without change.
incidentally, Chairman Hit and
Mr.. Quigg made public two interest
ing pieces Of state department news,
which Secretary Olney has given to |
them. though not to the press. Chair
man Hit stated that the Turkish
government has promised to pay every
can citizcns for the destruction or in
jury of colleges, mission stations and
other property The debate brought |
into prominence the fact that the
United States had been invited to be-
come a party to the treaty of Berlin,
and that they had-yery properly--re
fused.
Frye made Il fiery speech in the SEN
ate before the resolutions passed there
Friday, in which he lauded the Eng
ish government for its protection of
English subjects in every part OF the
globe, described eloquently the expe-
1ition of Lord Napier to Abyssinia,
Tho storming of Magdala and the rescue
and return to his home of the Scotch
man Campbell, held in a dungeon
there, and declared that il he had his
will congress would have memorialized
Russia to take possession Of Armenia,
and that the United States would have
stood at Russia's back in doing so.
tuesday Turpia of Indiana followed
With an imprisoned address, though
somewhat Of post mortem nature, in
a petition on the subject.
The Turks ought to be notified that
hey must erase from their book of
discipline that practice of the Moham
nedan church which makes use of
ison and murder to suppress the
Christian faith. And he would have
hat notification followed by shot
vhicn would go crashing through the
rand seraglio. He was in favor of
living "the sick man of the Bosh
'orus'' the coupe de grace and of end !
ng his life and system by dissolution
nd destruction
The silver men propose to force a
ote too day or tomorrow on the free I;
oinage substitute for the bond bill. 2
hey claim majority of six now that
he Utah senators are on tn ground.
he leading speeches of the week in
his debate have been by Bacon of a
ieorgia and Gray of Delaware, The q
primer Monday pointed to France as
n illustration of how silver and gold t
oinsrema in INTERPOLATION impractical, b
I equal terms, although the silver in Ii
heir five france piece was worth only t
) per cent. of its coin value, and he T
nd that the same condition of things G
ould obtain in the United States. a
ray made an elaborate argument {
'ednasday to show that the decline S
! rices is not caused by the decline b
! silver. Teller gave notice Monday "
an amendment which he would offer T
, the substitute, providing that after f
le first of July, 1896, all national C
ank notes shall be redeemed in coin s;
hen presented to the banks issuing o
lem, and that banks failing SO to re- a
eem them shall be dissolved. h
Tillman of South Carolina made tho a
Dsational speech of the session and b
ldeed of the whole history of tho Sc
nate Wednesday. 1t was only nomin- b
y about the pending bond bill, and al
denounced senatorial dignity. de- o,
anded President Clevelends i'm eli
,achment, accused the supreme court ri
corruption, declared that the enmil. b,
Dned power of Wall street controlled B
C nomination and election of the OF
CHEST officers of the government and er
edicted an armed revolution against do