The Portland daily press., 1896-01-25
PORTLAND MAINE, SATURDAY JANUARY

to do it. As far as American citizens art
concerned, would protect them ther al
any cost. We never agreed that ths
Dardanelles should be closed to us We
have been ready to go to war at ANY
time to keep the navigable waters opeI
to our ships II 1t were necessary to pro
| tect American citizans and their porperty
! would order the United States ships in
| spite of the forts, in spite of agreements
to sail up the Dardanelles and plant
themselves before Constantinople and de.
nand that American citizens shall have
the protection to which they are entitled.
| (Applause.)
Mr.. Frye lauded the Enlgish aoyern-
ment for its.protection of English sub
leots in eyery quarter of the globe and
described eioquntly the expedition OF
Lord Napier to Abyssinia, the storming
man Campbell heldsin dungeon ohere .
That expedition cost Great Britain
SO, GOO, 600. Who would not, asked
Mr.. Frye love and be willing to die for a
country that would doa thing like thats
ne asked that our country model itself
after Great Britain in this one thing
The life of an American citizen he de-
oiared m nst be, protected wherever he
may be whether in Great Britain or in
leries.
Mr.. Call, Democrat of Florida. remark
81 that the concurrent resolution was q
very feeble utterance in comparison with
Ghe speech the Senators had just heard
Hs submitted the following:
Ihat humanity and religion, and prin-
ciples on which all civilization rests. de-
mand that the civilized governments
shall by .peacefuI negotiations or II necss-
saay by forcs OF arms. prevent and sup
press the oruelties and massaores inflicted
on the Armenin subjects of Turkey By
the. establish ment of a governments Of
their own people, with such guarantee
by the civilized Powers of it's psrmanence
as shall be adequate to that end.
Ina substitute was tabled and the COM
mitJce's resolution adopted
The Senate at 4. 10 adjourned.
Washington Gossip.
Congressman DingIey. has presented to
Superintendent KiInha1l OF the life
saving service. petition for the esta b.
llshment Of a life saving station at Dam
arisoove Island. This petition is signed
by 9. B. Kenniston. e. L. Giles and
large number of citizens of Boothbay
Harbor, Boothbay, Southport and Bris-
toll The s1gners request that the station
be erected on the lot already owned BY
the government and that it be fully equip
ped and manned. Congressman Dingley
has urged favorable action on this Pc
tltion. The documents set forth that
DamariscOye Island guards the entrance
to Sheepsott and Damariscotta rivers and
Boothtay harbor, this harbor being one
OF the finest in the world and affording
shelter for thousands Of vessels. The
need of such station, the petition
states, has long been recognized by sea-
faring men in that vicinity, while the
Annual Life Saving Report OF 1899 shows
for that year 30 wrecks occurring with
in the nelghbOI hood of few miles of
that island. The wrecks mentioned are
as follows: AT Boothbay and Townsend
harboI, within a distance of foar miles,
there were five wrecks at Damariscotta
Island two wrecks; at Spruce Point, q
Instance OF three miles from Damariscot-
ia Island, there were two wrecks; at
Southport Island, two miles away, there
We're two wrecks at McKeown Point,
four miles away. there was one disaster;
at Squirrel Island, one and one-fourth
miles away, there were three wrecks;
at Bristol Point, five miles distant, there
was one wreck at Fisherman's 8 Island
and Outer Heron Island, each three
fourths of mile away, there was one
wreck each and at Outer Heron Island
ledge, two miles distant, sthere was one
wreck. At Hypoorite lodge. located two
miles away, there were two wrecks while
the Thread of Life ledge, at distance
of four mics, had one wreck. In Sheep
scott river and bay, distant eight miles,
there was one wreck, while Bartis Island
Black Rock. CLOVIS lodges, Harding
lodges, MoMahon Island. Christmas cove
and Toms Rock each had one disaster.
These places are within radius of eight
miles of Damariscove island. At the
Cuckolds there werestwos wrecks.
OF Maine people in the city Wednesday
there were 7. g. Heald and J. S. Morris.
both of Portland and James r. Connor
of Pittsfeld.
Col. L. D. M. SWEET of Portland. who
was many years ago a member of Con.
gress from Maine, arrived in Washington
Wednesday evening for weeks visit,
registering at the Arno. Mrs. Swett ac-
companied him. Col. SWEET called On
Speaker Reed Wednesday evening and
had long chat with his townsman.
A mild resolution of censure will prob
ably be adopted by the House committee
on foreign affairs, as an expression of
it's disapproval of the sentiments uttered
by Ambassador Bayara into the speeches
delivered by him some time ago in Eng
land
SHOWS THEIR SENSE.