Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-10-20
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
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Executive MANSION,
wAsHINGroN, ID. e., october IS, 1873.
BY virtue OF the authority vested in me by
section Il OF au act entitled an act imposing
taxes on distilled spirits and tobacco, and for
other purposes, it is hereby ordered
First. That the two collection districts Of the
states of Rhode Island be united into one dis
triCt, to be known as the first collection district
and that VIM. Ames be retained as collector Of
said district.
Second That the second ard fourth collection
districts of the state of Connecticut BE- united
into one district, 20 be known as the second col
lection district aud that David Y. HJllis,er be
retained as collector of said district
lSignedl- L. ). GRANT.
New Commemorative the Congress
sonal elections last year five deaths OF Con-
gressmen elect have occurred, namely: James
Brooks, of New York; william Waiting, OF
Massachusetts; Wilder ID. Foster, OF Michigan;
A Y. Il. Wright, otGeorgia, and Joseph q.
already been filed by the election OF Alexander
II. Stephens in place of General Wright, aud
James W. Nesmth in place of Mr.. Wilson. For
Mr.. Brooks seat the democrats have nominated
Mr.. Samuel ). Cox.and As the district is usually
democratic, and MIR. Cox has more than his
party strength, he may be set down as Mr.
Brooks successor. To ill the seat in the Mass
schusetts district Mayor Pierce, of Boston, has
been nominated by the republicans, and will
doubtless be elected. The republicans of the
9Th district, Michigan, have nominated Hon
w. h. Williams for the vacancy and are sure OF
his election.
PRoPOsED CHANGES IN OUR INDIAN POLICY
General j. p. C. Shanks, NJ. O., who has re-
turned from a tour among the Indians in Wash
ingtOn territory and other territories states that
the following are some Of the things that should
be done by law and judicial enforcement to
secure justice to the Indians: Allow Indians to
testify in courts the whites do; protect Indians
in their real and personal property from en-
croachments OF trespaSseTs; protect the person,
OF Indians wives aud daughte from the pollu-
ton of bad white men, the same as white mems
wives and daughters are protected; make the
personal property of Indians liable for their
debts, contracted for the necessaries of life;
protect their real estate or reservation homes
from liability for debt; prevent, by severe law,
pOiygamy among them; compel by Law, en-
forced by order of court, white men to provide
for the support of their ilPgitimate milan
children; legitimiZe the children of white
men by lud-an women, and let them take
by descent from both father and mother;
prohibit voluntary divorces OF Indians and OF
white men tIOm Indian women with whom they
have been cOhabiting; allow indians to procure
divorces in court, after fun hearing; and then
only for criminal causes, to be set out in the
law; require the same restrictions in procuring
dlvOrce by white men who have cOhabited with
Indian women that shall be required of Indians;
declare cOhabitatiOn of white men with Indian
women marriage to all intents and purpDSe
and enforce it by order of the court when its
duties are violated or neglected, if either the
white man or Indian woman Is married at the
time of cohabtatiOn punish both for adultery
or fOrnication, and make the punishment of
such white man severe; employ only married
men on the reservations as agents, farmers.
millers, &c, and make their employment con-
ditional upon their removing their families TO
and remaining with them on the reservation; the
presence OF white women and white children
among the Indians is necessary to the best in
tereSts of the whites and Indians.