The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-01-10
DAILY EXAMINER.
WACO, sATURDAY JAN. 10.
The --latest.

of the Interior has backed up bill
introduced by Senator Buckingham,
before recess, by sending to the
House to-day a communication, urg
ing that 500, 900, balance of apprc-
priation made in 1860, to remove the
Kicapoos and other Indians from the,
border of Texas and Mexico, be re-
appropriated. Delano says that the
commission reports about three hun,
dred already removed to the Indian
Territory, and that the removal of tie
remainder will relieve the authorities
OF Mexico and the United States from
State affairs jeopardizing the relaN
lions between the two Governments.
WAsHINGToN, Jan. 7.-SRNArE.--
Sumner presented n petition OF thirty
five thousand citizens of Ohio against
the proposed theological amendment
TO the Constitution. A tedious de-
bate over the salary bill exhausted
the day.
No executive session.
SENATE.--A resolution was adort.
cd calling for the names OF paymas
tiers of the late war whose accounts
were unsentled.
Crutchfeld, of Illinois, asked leave
to offer an amendment for the supplies
mentary Civil Rights bill, providing
penalty against any woman who
refuses the offer of marriage, on ac-
count of race, color or previous con-
dition of servitude. laughter.
Butler, of Massachus etts, objected;
and in the course of his speech said
that if he might be allowed to speak
for the Republican party, he would
embody the doctrine in q sentence:
not that all men were not equal, but
that every man had the right to be
the equal of every other man il he
could. All constitutions. all laws,
all enactments, all prejudice, all caste,
all custom, all thought against that,
in contraventlon with that, were un-
just, wicked, unchristian, and Gel
tainly must be brought to naught.
The bill only removed all impedi>
ments to every man to be the equal
OF every other man, ii Goa had
given HIM the power TO be the equal.
Monroe, Of Ohio, from the Com
mittee on Education, offered yester-
day, by Sypher, OF Louisiana, bill
directing army rations to be issued
to the starving poor IN the Southern
States. The committee had talked
over the matter t"ily and freely, aud
the result arrived at was that the
committee did not regard i. as the
proper sphere OF Congress to enter
on a genera system Of providing Tor
paupcrism in the States. Ii this pre-.
cedent were established, il would
soon be found that Congress had en-
tered ON the whole business of taking
charge OF pauperism generally
throughout the States. The report
was adopted, and the committee dis
charged from further consideration of
the SUBJECT.
The McEnery Legislature, through
committee, have telegraphed the
presiding officers OF the Senate and
House at length. The communica-
ton Is in the form OF a petition for
relief and recognition The dispatch
is signed by Messrs. Booth, Worrall
Lobdell, Foster and Searcher.
General Ames, with family, leave
for Jackson to night, to take posses
sion of the gubtr latorial char and
mansion. Mrs. General Atncs is n
daughter of General Butler
No executive business to-day
affecting the South, excepting the
theft OF about eleven thousand dol
lars worth of drafts for refunded tax,
mostly belonging to people OF that
section. These drafts were in liz
box in the refunding division OF the
Internal Revenue Department,
A supplemental report to the
House from the Secretary Of War
shows that the freedmen Bureau
swindle was carried on by false re.
ports of money deposited in the
United States repositories, and o.
amounts covered in the Treasury.
ILLICIT DIsTILLERIEs.
District Attorney Farrow, O.
Georgia, with the Endorsement of all
the representative men from tina,
State cognizant of the facts, has Sc
cured the acceptance by the Commits
sioners of Internal Revenue of a rep.
Iesentative price in the matter OF ii.
liclt distillers il North Georgia. The
proposition involves liberal settle
ment and approximation to genera
amnesty for past Irregularities, and
looks to the pardon of those in prison
The latter class, however, depend
upon Executive clemency. Their,
are about thirty-fve in Jail, and ovel
thee cases unadjusted. There also
are about three hundred distillers
against whom no proceedings have
been instituted, who desire to avail
themselves OF the settlement pro-
posed.
Mrs AdelAe RodGer, principal o
b large private school and member