The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-01-25
LIONS TAIL TWISTED
Aud incidentally Paited on the Back for
Fidelity to His Numerous Progeny.
eAGLAnD'S NEGLECT OF ARMENlAHS
Senator Fry Makes an ImpRssioned
Address DenouncinE EngIand's In.
action In Armenia and ExtolIins
Her Protection of Her Subjects
We Should Model After England.

Washington, Jan. 23-(Senate.) 1.-The
COMMITTEE on Privileges and Elections
was given permission TO sit during the
sessions Of the Senate to consider the
DupSnt election case from Delaware.
Mr.. Catfery had the Presidents COM
munication as to the non-payment of
sugar bounties transferred from the
Finance Committee to the Judiciary
Committe. Tho Comptroller OF the
Treasury, he said, In refusing to pay
the claim because he deemed the law
to be Unconstitutional had set up a
new construction. Never heretofore
had a subordinate official of the Gov
crnment assumed the power to nuilify
practically an appropriation by Con-
SreSS.
The concurrent resolution reported
last Wednesday from the Committee
on Foreign Relations on the subject of
outrages upon the Armenians was laid
before the Senate, and MIR. Cullom ad-
dressed the Senate. He said, that he
was amazed, aStounded. and appalled,
at the brief accounts which he had had
OF the awful carnival cf havoc destruc-
ton and blood which had prevailed
Tor time. in n country with which
the United States maintained ami
cable relations. The concurrent and
accumulated testimony of hundreds of
thousands of intelligent people, Chris
tian and Jew Catholic and Protestant
European and American, made il ubso-
iutely certain that Il massacre of inno-
cents unparalleled for ages, had been
perpetratcd in the Armenian provinces
OF turkey. Fire and sword had swept
away over many square miles OF terri
tory the last vestige of Armenian hu-
man life. And over two hundred viii
laEes the demon of damnation and fa-
nattcal hate had spread ruin. .desolatlon
and death. The English Government
had u direct obligation resting upon
IL to protect tht. ptnr
nothing had been done by them nor
Dy any of the other powers, 10 king to
the enforcement of their treaty obIiga-
tons, beyond mere diplomatic CORE
spohoence between them and the Sui
tan. II had therefore seemed to the
Committee on Foreign Relations that it
could do nothing less than appeal to
uhe powers 10 carry out their pledges,
as IT did in the concurrent resolution
As 10 the right OF the United States
10 protect its own citizens everywhere
no orders We're asked from any nation
on earth. MIR. Cullom quoted from n
speech of Daniel Webster these words. !.
There is something among men more
chpnbie OF shaking despotic power than
the lightning, the whirlwind the earth
quake: and that is. the excited and
aroused indignation of the whole civil
lzed world" And he added that he
Knew of nothing which had happened i'm
the world FOR centuries that more call
- ip' imam these Slaugh-
terS OF Armenian Christians
Mr.. blanchard expressed his ioy that
the Committee on Foreign Relations
had at last reported Il resolution Civ
lhG expression 10 the abhorrencc felt
by the American people at the atrocities
perpetrated on the Christian inhabi-
tants OF Turkish Armenia He favored
That resolution. although. perhaps, it
did not 20 far enough
Mr.. Frye who Is second on the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations, took cx-
ccptlon to Mr.. Rlanchard's remark
about that committee having "at last"
reported the resolution. He said that
at the last session of Congress the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations had given
q hearing to two missionaries +, Turkey
both OF whom he knew personally ana
one Of whom was Il resident of his own
city. They had stated the grievances
the troubles. the massacrcs and their
Tears. They had been asked what was
the remedy. and they had told the
committee that If consulates were es-
tapiished at isrZeroum and TIarpoot. the
troubles would cease because the eve of
America would be on that section of
country. In less than week. after
that, the Committee on Foreign Rela-
lions had reported an amendment to
The consular and diplomatic aDpronri,,
lion Dill providing for these two con
snlates. and it had become n law. The
turkish Government. however, had re-
fused eXequaturs to the two ConsI,Is
sent from the United States He did
not know what the Executive Depart
ment had done as to that refusal or
whether II could do anything. But II
seemed to him that some pressure ought
10 be brought to bear.
n that consulate had been establish
ed at fIarpoot, and if a consulate build
ing had been provided and an Ameri-
can flag raised upon 1t, more than 30
600 lives would have been saved there.
as one Of the most terrible massacres
had taken place at that point The
people OF the United States had plant
ed In Turkey over s6.000000 for one sin
gle purpose, that they might better
and Improve the condition OF the people
or Turkey. They had erected there as
hne colleges as there were In the world
and these colleges had been maintained
py American money. They had edu-
Gated thousands and hundreds of thou
sands of Turkish Armenians Cvho were
subjects of Turkey. 1t had been a
work OF wonderful beneficence. and
mad had marvellous success; and yet to-
gay that work IS absolutely stopped
ana American capital was held up
The American colleges at Harpoot
We're burned down and the Americans
themselves were compelled to flee for
Il do not know" he continued. "how
iar the United States of America can
interfere In Turkey. I am In favor of
thls resolution as an expression of our