Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-04-28
AZ CNIIMELY JOKE.

The bill authorizing the issue OF arms
10 the authorities OF Nebraska was taken
mp.
Buckingham. Of Connecticut, offered
an amendment to the effect that arms
should also be issued to the Indians to
protect themselves from the raids of set
tiers; bnt, after some debate. he with
drew his amendment and offered another.
providing that that State shall give
orders that the arms shall be used only
I for the purpose named in the bill-pro-
lection from the Indians. U. S. Senate
Proceedings, 2ls,.
When it is reeolleeted that Backing
ham is Chairman of the Senate Commit
tee on Indian Affairs, We can see to a GER
tain extent the Inspiration from whence
aiisrs the present imbecile and fraudu-
lent mode of conducting Indian affairs.
This man Buckingham is a professional
pbilanthrophist and q special admirer OF
the savage Indian. Like all of this
tribe, he can never see anything but vir-
tues in his pets, and their widest acts of
barbarity are mere indiscrstions which
shonld not be thought too much Of.
There is another quality in which the
resemblance is marked, and that is wink
ing at, il not personally participating
in, frauds. H was member Of the
committee that attempted to investigate
the New York Custom House frauds,
especially the draying monopoly, which
Let that promising young man, chung
to SO closely. While the examination
was proceeding in New York, Bucking-
ham, like the rest of the administration
committeeman, did his best to cover up
the nasty business from too close inspec.
ton. 1t is a fitting task for such man
to insult the adventurous settlers Of the
Western wilds, when they ask for arms
to defend themselves, their families and
their homes from the ravages and bar
barities of the ruthless savage. 1t
is fitting We say that such a man
should meet so just and reasonable de.
mand, with the sneering answer, that
the Indians should also be supplied with
arms to defend themselves against the
white settlers" it would take Just such
a conceited, hypocrtical, corrupt whited
sepulcher rs he is, TO make Jest of the
tolls and sufferings endured by the in
habitants of the frontier, and propose to
increase them by giving the savages in
creased ability to do harm.
1t is probable that he had no real in
tention that the purpose of his motion
should be carried ont, and it was simply
intended as sarcasm, uttered at the ex.
pense of the border settlers. But it is
poor subject to joke upon. In such mat
tiers the settlers are in dead earnest, and
if-as many Of them have seen-Buck-
ingham had seen his house in flames, his
women folks ravished, his infants brains
dashed out and his brethren tortured to
death before his very eyes, he too would
have been in right down earnest. Bad
Jokes and stale witticisms on such q sub
iect are as unwelcome and as much ont
OF place as snow in harvest. As start
ling corroboration of these views, we up
pend the following extract from the Eu-
reka Sentinel.
Between Tucson and Camp Bowie,
distance OF 100 miles, there are 100
graves, aud ali filled by white men muir
dered by Indians; while, ont of 400 per-
sons buried at Camp Bowie, only IS died
by natural causes-all the others being
victims OF savage butchery.
1t is subject of congratulation that
the term of buckingham as United
States Senator for Connecticut, is draw
ing to close, and that he is not at all
likely to be reelected. Such men as
he can well be spared from the national
councils.