Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-25
FOR THE ARMENlANS.
Concurrent Resolution Discussed in The
United States Senate.
urssRs. CrLLoM AND FRYE
rhcy Invcigb Against h"r"p'""
po,xcr. for Permitting the s'""s"-
81 ,hrtsttnn- in TurkcS-fr"-
,ecuon Of observation-disclosures

g.
slider the Dupont election case lro"
,r- r.0er had the Presidents COM
,,,,ri,ation as 90 the non-payment OF the
s,~,~ bountes transferred from the
r-,,.rce committee 90 the Judiciary Com
,.,.,-ee and made statement explana-
,,-, of the question In dispute. The
,.omptrouer OF the Treasury. he said.
Boa -eo1sing TO pay the claim, because he
doomed the law TO be unconstitutional.
had set up new construction. Never
heretofore had a subordinate official Of
the government assumed the power TO
nullify practically an appropriation made
hy Congress
The concurrent resolution reported last
wednesday from the Committee on For
clcn Relations on the subject Of outrages
ON the Armeuians was laid before the
Senate and Mr. Cullom Repubicam.
Of Illinois a member of that commit
tee. addressed the Senate
lie said that he was amazed. astounied,
ana appalled, al the brief accounts
which he had had OF the awful carnival
NJ havoc destruction. and hloodshed
which had prevailed for tire in coun-
try with which the United States main
tanned amicable relations. The accumu-
lated testimony of hundreds and thou
sands Of mteilgsut people-Christian.
and jew Catholic and Protestant. Euro
pCau and American made 10 absolutely
certain that massacre of innOcents
unparalleled for aIes had been perpc-
trsted in the Armenian provinces OF Tur-
key. Fire and sword had swept away,
over many square miles of territory
"a. last vesu-e OF Armenian human
life and over two hundred villages the
demon OF damnauon and fanaticai hate
had spread ruin. desolaton. and death
Tho English Government had direct
obligation resting on it TO protect the
ArmenMus. and yet nothing had been
done hy 3d. ror hy amy Of the other
Powers. .ookIlg to the enforcement Of
their treaty obligations. beyond mere de
p'omatic CORES spondence between them
and the sultan. 10 had therefore seem
cd fo f1e Committee on Foreign Re
lttiors that it could do nothing less than
appeal f' the Powers 20 carry out their
pledges. as 10 ala in the concurrent reso-
tuition.
As 90 the right OF the United states
o protect its own citizens everywhere.
nn orders were asked from any nation
o1 earth. Mr. Cullom quoted from
speech of Daniel Webster these words.
There is something among men more
capable Of shaking despotic power
than the lightning the whiriwind the
earthquake: and that is tine excited and
aroused Indignation of the whole civil
lzcd world and he added that be knew
~ nothing which had happened I'm tho
world for centuries that more called for
interference than this slaughter Of Ar
menian Christians"
ACTION CAT LAST"
Nr Blanchard Democrat. of Louisiana.
c11-c sel Dis joy that the Committee
"n Foreign Relations had at last reported
a resolution giving expression 20 the
thtofIence felt by the American people
' i1e atrocities perpetIated ON the
-iidn inhabitants of Turkish Armenia.
ie favored that resolution. although per-
l.fs .t ld not 60 far enough.
Nr Frye who is second on the Com
mttee on Fore gn Relations took ex-
errou io SIR Blanchard remark about
hat committee having "at last" reported
Pc resolution Re said at the last scs-
ION ui Congress the Committee on
o-ecn Relations had given a hearing 20
whom h- knew personally and one OF
whom was resident OF his own city
They .al stated the grievances. the
troubles The massacres. and their fears
They hai been asked what was the
omciv. and they had told the commit
tr0 that u COn-ulates We're established
af Erreroum and Harput the troubles
would cease. because the eye of America
would he on that section Of country
iefs fnan week after that the Com
nttec ou Foreign Relations had reported
amendment 20 the consular and
Hemauc hul providing for the TWO con-
tiea. and 10 had become a law. The
k-l Government had refused exc
Gaafnrs to The two consGis sent from the
.tei states. lie did not know what
f.. EVecu'iyc department had done as
'. fhat refusal. or whether 10 could do
anything but 10 seemed 10 him that some
-tssure ought 90 be brought 10 bear.
J that consulate had been established at
n1Iput and if consular building had
been provided. and am American flag
raised upon lt more than 1000 lives
would have been saved there. as one Of
Doe most terrible massacres had taken
d lace at that point
Tine people of tle United states ne
sa.l. bad planted in Turkey over s. 0ooOl0
Ior One Tuele purpo.e-th8t they might
better and improve the condition of the
ltap.. Cl Turkey. They had erected
There as 1nc colleges as there were in the
Wur.. aud these colleges bad been main-
tInrl ly American money They had .
educated thousands and hundreds of /
Turks 0r Armenians. who were subjects I
90. Turkey Il, had been a work of won-
lerfll btnedcence and had had marvellous !
success. And set to-day that work was
ihsoiutely stopped. and American capi- .
Cd was held up. The American colleges /
at Harout were burned down. and the /
Americans themselves were compelled 10 /
fee for .he.r lives.
WHAT SHALL BE DONE?
.I I0 not know he continued chow /
far tre United states OF American can I
.ufef.ro n Turkey / am in favor Of /
f..s iesoiltlon. as AN expression Of our .
'ralon upon those awful tragedies but I
tae uy way after these Powers of .
I..r.I. faI waited now solid year /
look1s each other in The face with sus-
b I.c.o-. Dges. and fearing each 10 make /
a move lest the other should receive /
d h.r' cm it ! would have Congress /
mem Russia and say 20 her Take /
Aime. .o your possession. proleci the /
lives of trosc Christians there. and the I
lrtUl s.tes of America viii stand be- !
hHi yoa with an its power applause /
Dob fhe eIeres)
-l do nat love Great Britain par /
N.HIafy aui could not give my assent 4
to ul marvellous euiogium upon Great I
Britain delivered here the day before /
tcriay say that from the time /
hat ih.- country was pe0pled by Eng
hmcn down to the day / am talking /
Great Britain BIAS never done one single !
sild act toward the United States zap 1
'.ause .u ihe aalier.esl. on 10 her Colony I
iut CnD. J sly hat she has availed her
,ef pl every single opportunity that I
anne 90 her power 20 hurt the United \