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CAPT. EMMET CRAWFORD.An Attempt for the Relief of the Heirs of Nebraska's HeroSenator Mamlerson's Nebie Work In the Senate in Their Behalf •His Bill for Indemnity.The Atroeloui Ammi)mutton of Capt« Crawford Demand* Reparation—The Funeral* That Have Taken Flace In the Senate Chamber—A Feeflag Tribute to Gen* Login.Washington Jan 1 —[Special ]—As has already been intimated through your col unms from this point, SAuftor Manderson will at an early day introfeoe and have referred to the senate committee on foreign •elations a bill of indemnity in favor of the heirs or legal representatives of the late Capt Emmet Crawford of the regular army, a resident of Kearney Neb , who was cowardly assassinated by Mexicans in Mexico a year ago while he was in pursuit o| Geronimo and bia hostile Apaches The nfeasure reads as followsA 111 LI*01* the relief of the heira or kgol represtnta livu) of the late Capt Emmet Crawford United btutes army killed in Mexico by Mexican troops on the lltii iia\ of January 1880 WiiLiifAH In pursuance of Article II of a triatv made m 1H8? bttuten the United States and Mexico it wtb agreed that the rcgulai fedtral troops of tbe two republics may rtcipro-callj lt;i*obs the boumliuY lint if tbc two countrk k when they art In pursuit of a Uubd of unvage 111 dians upon conditions slated In said tnntj and\Y iilhlas It appears from thd last repoit of tl i secretary of w nr that Cupt Rramet Ciawfordof thlt; United States aiiny Jn company with Lit utenantH Mann and Faison of the rust Recu lar Infantry Lieut blnppof the Tenth Regular cavalry and ibsistant Surgeon Davis, also of the regular toiled States foues with an organised battalion entered Mexico December II 188T in cl sc pursuit of hostile smugt anil fleeing \pachen and Win iuuh It furl hi r appears from sold repoi t of tht secretaiy of war that on the 11th of Jnn January tWHli t apt Lr w ford a camp in Mexico w is attacked Iy Mexican soldiers, aim that wink that officer in uniform wax holding a parley \\ tl said Mexican tiooj s h* was shot down by them and killed and—\V herfas it fiirtlu r appears from sai l i epoi t of the secretary of wtr that no Yltnm has been made fui in lunn ty for such killing ml that the uiu dtpaitincnl no Longer has the matter con cei i Lr g the .same in its charge and—WiiiRkAS It fmtlicr iippiiuufroni said repoit of the scci etary of wai that the conduct of said Me Mean troops was utterly unjustifiable and—Whlrfas Capt Emmet Crawford was an of ilccr in the fnil vi^oi of manhood a soldier of great cuduruntt sn^autj skill and courage who had exhibited pusutrance and Intelligence cf tl t highest degree therefore be it enacted by the senate an I bouse of repre mntutUca of the United States of \merica iu congre,i assemble IbtucnoN 1 Chat the secretary of the treasury be and he is hereby nuthun/ed an I directed to pay to the heirs or the legal represei tatlves of tbe late Capt Enunet Crawford United States amiy the sum of 000 out of any money iu Uu treasury uot otherwise appropriatedThis matter seems to have gone through the legular red tape loutine of the war de partment and to lut\ e passed into tbe handa of Secretary Bayard with little hope of a propei adjustment.Tne senator la not disposed evidently, to let this atrocious and cowardly murder go without again calling the attention of t*e country to itf and asking the poemdltoe on foreign relations to give PlnnTtjg Heynrrt sharp prodding For want of and a navy we may not be demand much from such powe France. Italy, Russia, Germany or A bufcaucn an assassination as tfcatof Copt Emmet Crawford in violation 4f the treaty of 1682, cold blooded butchery, Ap piemen ted with lies and denials, tempts thi better and more patriotic men of this natiaA to demand that it go not unavenged or ■tpafclnl It was in this spirit probably, pat Senator Mandei son approached the matfer the last session, when ne offered a preaiwdflf^d reso lution reciting the treaty of 188f a:mg of Capt Crawford* Heaau'This matter should receive rail invecflgk^ tion It is due to the family of vis deceasedsoldier—a man who stood as jpfgb as anydbrfki StatesI knew him years ago when hekerved underother man in the army of theGen Crook in the brilliant caipwugr^oeAia by that gallant officer against the hostile Sioux in northern Nebraska * # 1 hope the matter will be very fay investi gated and that reparation will be forced if necessary from the Mexican giverbokint, if it bo a party to or countenancwifehls Orjftie ,T Senator Edmunds favored tbi fullest inveatigation also but thought it should be asVIsumed that the president and lecretary of state were making careful investigations.Senatoi Mandereon s resolution at that time was on his motion, referred to the committee on foreign relations where it has slept pend mg supposed and hoped for action But tnk ing up tbe president s message, we find not a single allusion to this assassination It seems not to have been deemed worthy of notice by Mr Cleveland and just what Secretary Baynrcl has done oi is doing, nowhere ap pears 1 liesecretaiy of war iu his repoit alludes to it and in somewhat vigorous Ion giiage claiming that the murder was wholly unjustifiable but says that it has passed out of the hands of the war depai tment into that it Secretary Bayard One strange feature in the mattei is pet foi fch in the report of the secretaiy of war, m ho says that the Mexicans have put in a lt;laim against our government fox depred i tions committed bv Ciawford s troops, while the only claim ’ put in by our government is tor property forced fiom Lieut Maus by these Mexican greasers and soldiers It is ijuitc fGitmn thst that this claim of the Mi Ti in\ is ti umped up to cover their mur eler of Ciawford but even if true any depredations by Crawford s troops would te a nrnt-toi for the United States government to settle and not for greasers to take upon themselves to adjust by assassination, Ijecnnse the fourth at tic le or the ti eaty expressly savs The abuses waich may bo committed by the foucs which cross the toi ritoiy of the othei nation shall be punished by the government to which tne forces belong while u ti le of tl e tieaty expressly says that In the case of offenses which may be committed by the inhabitants of the one country against the foreign forces which may be within its limits, the government of said country shall onh be responsible to the government of the other for a denial of justice in the punish m ni of the guilty The Mexican government has allowed its troops to kill Capt Crawford under circum stances deemed by our secretary of war wholly unjustifiable and unprovoked and no claim whatever the secretory says, lusa been made by our government** Mexico for indemnity Under the treat* Mexico is countenancing the murder, wielding the guilty, and our claim is on Mexico, and un | Uer the treaty (article 7} no suit would seem to lie by Capt Crawford’s heirs against Mex ico It Secretary Bayard fails or neglects to make claim und secure indemnity for th s murder there is no reason why the treasury should not be mulcted to pay for the loss of so valuable an officer, w hen the government takes pains to demand pay for mules and equipn ente wrested from Lieut. Mam It is for a democratic administration to say whether this foul blot on the record of ita jet inefficient efforts shall go down to pos tenfcy without vigorous and effectual adjustment. Nebraska has had the benefit of tbe efforts of tbe gallant Capt Crawford to suppress the Sioux and his education has cost our taxpayers something and to be shot down like a dog demands reparation.cIiji
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Daily Nebraska State Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Tue, Jan 04, 1887
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