The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-07-16


s'ruction to reduce the appropriation
to - 100000. Adjourned.
House; Upon voting q pension o
live hundred dollaas u month to III,
widow OF General Custer Williams
Of Michigan, asked leave also to intro
duce u bill granting opension OF rightS
dollars per month to the father ant
mother of General Custer. Rusk unt
Ainsworth objected on the ground o
It's irregular way OF coming before II,
House. Cameron suggested that tn,
committee on invalid pensions shoult
II M early day report Till granting
pensions TO the children Of men VIII,
fell under the lead OF General Custer.
The House then went into commit
tee of the whole on n bill for the pro
lection Of the PeXaa iroutler. After 1
short discussion, pQuuell opposing thai
part Of the bill which allows the Uni
ted States troops to pursue murderer,
In Mexico, the committee then rose ful
few moments.
Rusk from the committee on Invull,
pensions reported a bill grating amen
sion OF tltty dollars II month each t.
the father and mother Of the Custer
brothers, and It was passed without
discussion.
Mr. Conger moved that the Com.
mittee ON Pensions be instructed /,
report II OiIl for the reli Of the fam,
lilies Of those who fell under General
Custer, but MIR. jerks ohjectinp, the
House again went into Committee OF
the Whole on the Texas Till. After u
long discussion the committee voted
on the bill by sections. The first see
ton, prov iding for military force on
the Rio Grande, was amended In sew.
eral particulars.
Mr.. Smalls offered an amendment
providing that no troops shall be with.
drawn from South Carolina 80 long n,
the militia OF that State cannot peace
fully assemble, and are assaulted and
taken prisoners and then massacred In
cold blood by lawless bands Of men In
vnding that State from the State OF
Georgia. He sent to the clerks dcsl,
and hal read newspaper statement
OF the Hamburg massacre OF six col,
ored men.
Mr.. Cochran asked Smalls who was
the writer of the article, and Smalls
replied the letter WAS written to him
by an eye witness, aud he had sent II
for publication to Cochran. "Wh0 II
the writer? II the gentleman desires
the name to be given In order that the
writer mpy be killed, he will not get II
from me. He IL e citizen In tho town
Of Aiken
Mr., Conger charged that the cuttinI
down Of the army was to proven
troops from being sent to States wher,
lawless men take the lives OF peacea
bic citizens.
Mr., Cox said the object Of tn,
amendment IL to get up cry
through all the land this fall
for bad purposes; malignant hate
spite and bloody shirtism are all thai
are in it.
Mr.. Hartridge said that 1t was in
tended to subserve partisan purposes
and that the amendment did gross in
Justice to an honorable and gallan
gentleman, Gen. NJ. G. Butler, and Il
the people of Georgia. The people o
Augusta had no immediate representa-
tive present, the hand Of Providence,
pressing heavily on the gifted gentle
man, Mr.. Stephens, and 1t was there
fore HE pride and pleasure to protes
against the imputation conveyed b,
the amendment upon community
distinguished for its intelligence, in
tegrity, virtue and obedience to Law
and to the constitution. No on,
regretted the unfortunate occurrence
at Hamburg more than the people o
Georgia did. It's newspapers, all Dem
ocrat,c, demanded an investigation
and were stamping the matter will
their condemnation. An investiga
ton ordered by the Governor Of Soutl
Carolina, was now going on, and
would have been we'll to have waited
till the result of that inquest was pub
lislled before throwing tire-brand int,
the assembly.
Mr.. Redwsy made an earnest appea
on behalf Of his race, and asked wha
whitemen, on military parade OF
the Fourth Of July, would think Of tn
demand by two men, driving in bug
gy, that THY should break their rank
and let them pass. He asked the prou
southerners who boosted OF their bra,
cry aud their chivalry, II they woul
stand 1t, and did they expect men I
his race to submit to continual pers,
cution and massacre. He asked th
House, In the name OF humanity an
OF God, to tell them whether the
should be American citizens with a
the rights and immunites OF such, {
vasals aud slaves again.
Without coming TO 0 vote on ament
ment the committee rose and I'll
House adjourned.
Bishop Garrett will preach t,
I night his next discourse on "rf
soul.n All who heard his eloquel
sermon last Sunday will be gratfied
hear him tonight.