The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-07-17

mlLIe6 rose lOr IeW moments, anu MI.
Ruski from the committee on invalid
pensions, reported bill granting pen.
sion Of $50 a month each to the father
and mother of General Custer. 1t was
passed without division.
Mr.. Couger moved that the Commit
tee on Pensions be instructed 20 report q
bill for the relief of the families Of those
who fell under Gen. Custer, but Mr.
jerks objected.
The House again went into q CON-
mittee on the Texas bill.
After long discussion the committee
voted on the bill by sections. The first
section providing tor military force on
the Rio Grande was amended in several
particulars.
Mr.. Smalls offered an amendment pro-
vlding that no troops shall be withdrawn
from South Carolina as long as the mill
itia of that state peacefully assembled)
are assaulted, disarmcd, taken prisoners,
and then massacreed in cold blood by
lawless bands of men invading that
state from the state OF Georgia. He sent
to the clerks desk and had read a news
paper statement of the Hamburg mas.
sacre of six colored men.
Mr.. Cochrane asked Mr.. Smalls who
the writer of the article was
Mr.. Smalls replied that the letter was
written to him by an eyewitness, and he
had sent it for publication.
Mr.. Cochrane-Who is the wrlter2
Mr.. Smalls-If the gentleman desire
a name to be given in the order that the
writer may be killed, he will not get 1t
from me. He is lawyer in the town Of
Aiken.
Mr.. Conger charg 4 that the cutting
down of the army was TO prevent troops
being sent to the states where lawless
men take the lives of peaccsble people.
Mr.. Cox said the object OF the amend
ment was to get up a cry through all
this land this fall for bad purposes;
malignant hate, spite, and bloody
shirtsn are all that are in it.
Mr.. Hsrtridge said it vas intended to
subserye partisan purposes. The amend
ment did gross injustice to an honorable
and gallant gentleman, Gen. Butler,
and the people of Georgia. The people
of Augusta had no immediate represen-
tative present. The hand of Providence
was pressing heavily on that gifted gen.
tleman, Stephens, and it was therefore
his Hartridgel pride and pleasure to pro-
test against such imputatlon as that con-
veyed by the amendment on a community
distinguished for its intelligence, integrity,
virtue, and obedience 10 the law and CON-
stitution. No one regretted the unfortu-
nate occurrences at Hamburg more than
the people of Georgia did. Its newspapers
(all Democratic) were demanding an in
vestigation ana were stamping the mat
ter with their condemnation. An inves-
tigation, ordered by the Governor OF
South Carolina, was now going on, and
it would have been we'll TO have waited
till the results of that inquest were pub
lished before throwing such a tire.braAd
into this assembly.
Mr.. Jones, OF Kentucky, eulogised
General Butler as a chevaier sans pere et
sdrs reprOarhe.
Mr.. Rainey made an earnest appeal on
behalf of his race, and asked what white
men, in a military parade on the
Fourth of July, would think Of De.
maud by two men in buggy that
they should break their ranks and let
them pass. He asked the proud South
e'ners who boas, 1 of their bravery and
their chivalry, il they would stand 1t,
and did they expect the negroes TO stand
it;-did they expect men OF bis race to
submit to continual prosecutions and
massacres. He asked the House. in the
name of humanity, and OF God, to tell
them whether they should be American
citizens, with all the rights and Immuhi
ties of such, or vassals and slaves again.
Without coming TO vote on the
amendment, the committee arose and the
House adjourned.