People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1896 — URGES A CRUSADE. [ARTICLE]

URGES A CRUSADE.

SENATOR TURPIE MAKES A STRONG SPEECH. The Situation In Turkey Reviewed by the Indiana Legislator —Financial Question Also Discussed —Proceedings in the House. Washington, Jan. 29. —Foreign affairs and finance occupied the attention of the senate Tuesday. The session of the house was brief. Contrary to general expectation, the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill precipitated no discussion whatever. None of the foreign complications was even mentioned, and the bill was passed in less than an hour. The appropriations carried by the bill are about SIOO,OOO in excess of those appropriated for the current fiscal year. In the senate Mr. Turpie (dem., Ind.) in presenting a petition concerning Turkish massacres, said that in the recent calamities the Armenians were charged with no revolt. Thej’ were charged only with being Christiahs. Their only crime was that they claimed and exercised the right to worship the Divine Creator of the universe. The time has come, said the senator, that there should be an official notification to Turkey and to the Mohammedan church that there has been a decadence in their power to proselyte with the sword. “We have already sent a message,” said the senator, referring to the concurrent resolution, “but the blow should follow. The message should be followed by a shot which would go crashing through the grand seraglio.” The senator urged that it would be a glorious day when the destruction of this Turkish power was brought about. He would have the messages and demands sent to the sultan, but echoed through the mosques. It should thunder until these murderers learned of the power and advance of Christianity. The senator urged that the Christian world might now be called upon to take up another great crusade, driving back the rule of Mohammedanism, and establishing the rule of Christianity. Mr. Allen (pop., Neb.) gave notice of an amendment to the pending silverbond bill, depriving the secretary of the treasury of the power to issue bonds, unless the authority is granted by congress.

Mr. Call’s resolution for an investiga- I tion of an arrest of Eugene V. Debs i ’came up, and Mr. Call urged immediate ’ action, saying that the laboring inter- ■ -est.s of the country desired the inquiry. Mr. Hilf (dem., N. Y.) offered an ■amendment, directing that the whole subject of contempt of court, as enforced by the Federal judiciary, be investigated by the committee on judiciary, and that a report bo made as to what, if.any. legislation was necessary. Mr Call dissented to the amendment. He spoke vigorously upon the indignities and wrongs of Eugene V. Debs, because he. had ventured to express opinions contrary to those entertained 'by a court. The senator said this in»quiry was vital to the preservation of •civil liberty and the inviolability of the .personal rights of the individual. Mr. Allen severely criticised Judge Woods, who committed Debs. The resolution finally went over to allow Mr. Thurston (rep.. Neb.) to address the senate on the Monroe doctrine. At 2 o'clock the silver-bond bill was taken up, and after pome skirmishing between Hill and Chandler and Jones <Ark.) in a vain effort of the last named to have Thursday at 2 p. m. fixed for a vote, Mr. Jones said: “Then I give notice that on Thursday I will ask the ■senate to remain in session until this bill is disposed of, and I ask all senators to come prepared on Thursday for such action.” Mr. Wolcott (rep., Colo.) said he hoped the physical test of endurance would not become necessary as a means of securing a vote. He pointed out that the friends of silver had been accused of opposing legislation. Now it was the senators from the East who interposed opposition. Mr. Wolcott strongly urged that the physical all-night struggle be not resorted to. Mr. Clarke (rep., Wyo.) then addressed the senate in behalf of silver. Mr. Voorhees (dem., Ind.) said the country was in the midst of a revolution brought on by those who plotted against silver. It was this class which brought on panics, destroying the parity of the metals. The men who demonetized silver in 1873 were, said Mr. Voorhees, “revolutionists.” They sought to overcome the constitution, the laws and the policy of a century. After tracing the constant use of silver since the government began, the senator declared that the token of “sound money” applied to gold was a fraud. Silver was as much sound money as gold. It would effectually stop the raids on the gold reserve if the demands on the treasury were met by silver payments as- well as gold. Mr. Voorhees sarcastically reviewed Mr. Sherman’s financial record. Under his leadership, the senator declared, the republican party had broken faith with the soldiers, paying them with a depreciated paper money. The Ohio senator believed in “sound money” for Wall street, but not for the soldiers. Mr. Voorhees declared that the gold withdrawals of the last twelve months were part of the conspiracy to compel the issue of inter-est-bearing bonds. Since the demonetization of silver panics had become frequent Ruin followed in the train of demonetization. To enrich creditors at the cost of debtors was the invariable purpose In the contraction of the currency. Mr. Voorhees referred derisively to the Anglo mania which made Great Britain foremost in certain frivolous affairs and matrimonial bargains.

and then condemned the prevailing tendency to bow to that country in all financial legislation. The senator closed with a vigorous assertion of the capability of the democratic party to deal not only with this great question, but also with the tariff, foreign affairs, and all the important issues of the day. Mr. Gray (Dem., Del.) spoke of the advahtages of a gold standard. It was the natural standard of the world, and mere legislative whim or fiat could not change the natural law. The senator controverted the assertion that cheap prices had followed the demonetization of silver. He asserted that invent.on and modern methods had brought about this reduction of prices. He contended also that low prices were for the benefit of the masses of the people. Mr. Call gave notice of a speech today on the bond bill. Mr. Palmer presented resolutions of respect to the memory of the late Representative Remann of Illinois, and as a mark of respect the senate at 5:45 adjourned until today. IN THE HOUSE. Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Bill Passed. Washington. Jan. 29.—During the morning hour in the house Tuesday several important bills were passed by unanimous consent. The house then went into committee of the whole (Mr. j Grosvenor of Ohio in the chair), and took up the consideration of the diplomatic and consul'll' appropriation bill. The bill carries $1,370,586, being $98,600 in excess of the appropriation for the present fiscal year. Mr. Hitt, chairman of the committee | on foreign affairs, explained that the i bill was practically a re-enactment of : the present la /, with such increases as the service required. An'amendment was adopted including in the $■>..,000 appropriated for the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, similar provision for American seamen on the coast of Alaska. Without further amendment, the bill was passed. Mr. Grow (Rep.. Pa.) had read in open house a bill appropriating SIOO,OOO to aid in the establishment of schools for teaching articulate speech to deaf children. Mr. Hadley (Rep., III.) then announced , the death of his predecessor, Frederick | Remann, from the Eighteenth Illinois : district, July 14, 1895. Appropriate reso- j lutions were adopted, after which, at | 2:35 o’clock, the house, as a further mark of respect, adjourned. * ~ The Figlit for Stanford’H Millions. Washington, Jan. 29.—Argument was begun in the Supreme Court of the United States Tuesday in the case of i the United States vs. Mrs. Jane L. Stanford, widow and'executrix of the will 1 of the late Leland Stanford. The | government seeks to recover from : the Stanford estate Mr. Stanford’s pro- 1 portion of alleged individual liability for the bonds of the Central Pacific ; Railroad Company. Over $15,000,000 is ; involved. The argument for the government was begun by Assistant Attorney General Dickinson, who spoke for about two hours. Mr. Choate followed in Mrs. Stanford’s behalf. For the I'reHident’s Signature. Washington, Jan. 29.—The concurrent resolution requesting the president to communicate to the parties to the treaty of Berlin the wishes of congress that those powers should intervene to protect the Christians in Turkey reached the state department Tuesday and was sent over to the executive mansion for the consideration of the president.