Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1896 — HARD HIT AT TURKEY. [ARTICLE]

HARD HIT AT TURKEY.

Hepburn Urges that the Minister of the Porte Be Given Passports. The national House Monday, after an interesting four hours' debate, adopted the resolutions passed v<y the Senate last week calling on the powers signatory to the treaty of Berlin to enforce the reforms in Turkey guaranteed to the Christian Armenians, and pledging the support of Congress and the President in the most vigorous action h? might take for the protection and security of American citizens in Turkey. The House committee had prepared some resolutions on the same subject, but it was deemed advisable after the Senate resolutions reached the House -to substitute them for those prepared by the committee. Mr. Quigg, of New York, who had charge of the resolutions, made an able presentation of the case. There jyia a aisposition on the part of some of the members to go further than the resolutions did and Mr. Hepburn, of lowa, proposed to give the Turkish minister hit passports and sever all diplomatic relations with Turkey. His remarks denouncing the Turkish outrages and charging that the powers signatory to the treaty of Berlin were actuated from political and other considerations in maintaining the “balance of power” in eastern Europe were received with' great enthusiasm and at one time it looked as if the House might be carried to his way of thinking. But the counsel of Mr. Hitt not to take rash action, in the course of which he pointed out the dire consequences that might result from a severance of diplomatic relations with a friendly power that had fulfilled her treaty obligations to us, prevailed, and the Hepburn proposition was overwhelmingly defeated. Mr. Bailey opposed the resolutions on the ground- that it would be improper for us to “insult” the parties to the treaty of Berlin by intimating thnt they hnd not carried out their obligations. Mr. Turnei of Georgia took a similar view and Me Groc-enor of Ohio characterized the resolutions as “incomplete, inefficient and unworthy,” and requested the committee to withdraw them. They were finally passed, however, by a vote of 143 to 2G, after a motion of Mr. Bailey to send them to the committee had been defeated 55 to 103. ' ■ It was reported at Philadelphia that tideon Marsh, ex-president of the defunct cyatona Bank; whose vast embezzlements wrecked that institution. Is back in the city. He fled In 1891, when a price of $5,000 was aet upon him by the city. It was said Marsh has been in the Mills Eye hospital and ia about to surrender himself. The Benedict Paper Company, whole •ale paper, dealers at Kansas City, Mo., has failed, with liabilities of $59,000 and assets about the same.