The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-31
HEPBURN Is RADICAL
PRESENTS A RESOLUTION
TO THE HOUSE..
which Would sever our Relations with
Tnrk", lost by u Vote AZ IL to iai-
senate Armenian Resolutions Discussed
In the House.

WASHINGTON. Jan. "s.-In the House
to-day n hill was passed on motion OF
MIR. Nv Of Minnesota, Republican,
TO amend the act Of l.Sq for the relief
ana CIVILIZATION of the Chippcwas 50 as
to permit the Secretary Of the Interior.
NJ ms discretion, to sell the pine lands
IN thclr reservations in blocks Of lOO.-
uoo acres or less. About 1000. u acres
are to be sold under the act of 1889.
Mr., Hepburn of Iowa gave notice of
an amendment to the Armenian reso-
luton, ~lnstrurting the president to
give the Turkish minister his
ana end all diplomatic relations with
Turkey.
Mr.. INIT, chairman of the foreign
afairS committee, rcbukcd Mr.. Hon.
nnrh Tor his extraordinary proposal To
sever diplomatic relations with n
friendly power.
we want no relations with that
murderer replied Mr.. Hepburn.
Mr.. ilophurn's amendment was de.
ieatcd by "A vote of - to ri against.
Nhch the arrival of the senate Ar.
nenlan resolution was announce Mr..
Quigg OF New York. u member Of tho
foreign affairs committee, moved that
the senate resolution bc substituted
Tor tina of III" House. lie explained
mat the difference between the rcso-
lut'ohs was 50 slight that IL was not
advisable, IN view OF the passage OF
the senate resolution. to press the one
prepared 10y the House committee.
he made a brief statement of the facts
which called upon Congress, 10 express
us Indignation at the situation i'm Asia
MINOR Although the newspapers oc-
~casionaily reported atrocities on Amer
Il citizen>, there were assurances
from the state department that no
american citi"cn had suffered personal
violence.
IL was a matter of profound grief,
said he, that the American people
were now forced to protest to those
VINO had gwen bonds for the good be-
havior of the Turk. 1t was not nee.
essary for MS to inquire into the mo-
tires which ac,uatcd an Euronenn
power which dccricd the out
RACES in Turkey with one hand
and uphold the sultan with the
other. With the jcalousics and po!l,i.
cal machinations of Europe we were
not interested. l:ut since the I'm.
ropean powers, in the name of govern
ment and humanity, had pledged
the Sultan, and he had acknowledged
the pledge, that liberty and free.
aom of worship should exist ia every
part OF the Ottoman empire and that
christians should be protected from
the kurds, the United States had the
right to summon these powers before
the nigh court of good faith to en-
plain why they rest idly and supinclv
inactive, while 10, 900 Christians homes
were destroyed, while men aud women
were murdered, women dishonorrd
n children sold into bondage because
they refused to cry out that Mahomct
the great prophet
lie characterized the Armcnians ms
a noble and intelligent race who had
Tor l,oOO years preserved their Ian
guage and national characteristics and
had resisted the effort to Russianize
them. Mr.. Quigg minated a belief
II a the only responsibility Law with
Treat Britain and he said he wanted
the European powers To know we were
with horror the helplcss
struggle of u people who were suffer.
ing not for what they did, but tor
they thought. The offcnse
against them, he declared, was an Of
against Christian civilization.
II will not say" concluded Mr..
ouigg, whose duty il is to stop these
,utrages. But submit to the serious
Judgment of the American people that
he time has gone by when one Chris
country can close its eye to such
'utrages and solemnIy aver Il am not
ny brothers keeper ,Applause).
These resolutions may probably be in
adequate, but IL they have the effect
u showing to the parties to the treaty
u Berlin that the American people
re watching their direlection or in
the warning it CONVEYS NAV