The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-02-08
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The Government Pays One Million Dol
lars for Every Indian Killed.
Generals Ord and steele to Testify De.
fore the Texas Border Committee.
Mr.. Davis and the Blaine Sian der--Om
elal Records.
Attorney General PlerrepOnt Dlscredlls
the Mckee Pardon RumOr.

WASHINGTON, February 7.-General
Ord left San Antonio on the fourth In.
slant for this city, to testify before the
Committee on Texas Border Raids.
General Steele, of Texas, has been sum
moned and will reach the capital dur
ing the week. This week will close the
evidence upon which the committee
will base their recommendations.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis has written let
ter to the Hon. James Lyons, of Rich
mond, In answer to one from Lyons,
commencing, ~ beg you TO answer
Blaine.n Mr.. Davis, after reviewing
the matter, concludes: "Mutual respect
is needful for the common interest, Is
essential to friendly union, and when
Islander is promulgated from high
places, the public welfare demands
that truth should strip falsehood of Is
power for evil.n
Prot. Seelye is devoting great atten-
ton to Indian affairs, but acknowl-
edges that he finds the situation en-
tirely too puzzliDg for ready solution.
He says that such examination rs he
has given the subject convlnces him
that the Indian bureau Is the most ex-
tensive institution conducted by the
government. He says each Indian costs
the government about $1,000 year to
keep him alive, but il would bankrupt
the country to attempt to kill them of,
for that seems to cost about 81 100000
for every Indian. 1t only costs W 90
day to board them here in Washington,
so that IL looks almost as If ii would be
economical to bring them all here.
Statements in various papers to the
effect that Mckee would be let of with
fine of 81 900 or $4,000, and either no
Imprisonment at all, or confinement
in county Jail for nominal period,
and that government counsel had tao
lily agreed to interpose no objection to
such proposition were shown to Attor-
ney General Pierrepont this morning.
He said: ~ don't believe that, and
added that he had heard nothing of
any such arrangement.
The secretary OF the Southern His
torical society, replying to Secretary
Belknap's letter to him, says: "fhe
people of the South are not only will
ing but anxious that the whole of their
official records should be given to the
world, and that future historians should
have an opportunity of Judging them
in the light of those records. Be as
sured, then, of our hearty cooperation
in supplying your department. with
missing Confederate documents. We
will have furnished you properly au'
thenticicated copies of such MS are IN
our possession, and will assist you IN
procuring others; it being understood,
of course, that your department VIII
afford us similar facilities in the prose-
cution of our work.
A protest against the confirmation
OF William ?. Ross, who has the APP
pointment to succeed 9. w. ingalls, IN
the Union Agency OF the Indian Ter
ritory, has been received in this city.
1t is signed by large number OF Cher.
okees, and says that the appointment
of MIR. Ross would prove calamity to
the United States and the lndians,and
that the bitter feuds which exist in
the Indian country between political
parties, the lines of which are 80
strongly marked in blood, would be
sufficient reason for opposing the rec
ognized leader of one faction to such q
position as United States Indian Agent |