Arizona citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.]) 1870-1880, 1871-03-04
Mccormick at Work.

26 and q, we find that our Delegate
is again at work in Congress and look
ing well to our interests. In the de-
bate on the Indian appropriation bill
Jan. %
The Clerk read as follows:
Apaches Of Arizona and New Mex
leo:
For this amount, to beexpended I'M
der the direction of the President in
collecting the Apaches of Arizona and
New Mexico upon reservations, fur
nishing them with subsistence and
other necessary articles, and to pro-
mote peace and civilization among
them, $4,000.
Mr.. MCCORMICK, of Arizona. I
move to amend by adding to that para
graph the following proviso;
Prooided, That this appropriation
shall be expended only in behalf of
those Indians who go and remain upon
said reservations and refrain from hos
tilities.
Mr.. Chairman, I introduce this
amendment because I believe, as a
distinguished general serving upon the
frontiers lately said, and as my own
observation convinces me, that Gin
dian treaties which leave the Indian
free to wander at will, as he has al
ways done, and which depend upon
bis word for their observance, are a
monstrous and most expensive farce,
alike expensive In money and in life.
The military once, at much expense,
tried the experiment OF feeding some
of the Apaches of Arizona, and yet
combining them to DO limits; and it
was found that not few of the I'M
grateful savages went directly from
the forts at which they were fed to en-
gage in hostilities against the whites.
I deem this amendment absolutely
necessary III this connection, and l am
glad to say the honorable gentlemen
who has the bill in charge has agreed
to admit it.
The amendment was adopted.
In the debate Oh Jan. 10th, the fol-
lowing took place:
Mr.. MCCORMICK, of Arizona. I
offer the following amendment, to
come in at the end of the bill:
ind ro0ujded further. That no part of
the said sums herein appropriated for
other than treaty Indians shall be Civ
en- to the support of able-bodied male
Indians, except as wages at fair rate
for labor performed upon reservations
or upon roads or other public works in
said Territories, the said labor to be
performed under the direction of the
superintendent OF Indian affairs and
Indian agents in the Territories.
1t will be remembered by some gen.
tlemen here that [ introduced this
amendment when the Indian appro-
priation bill was under consideration
last year. L introduce it now from
simple sense of duty. I believe that [
am warranted in doing so by observa-
tons made on the frontier during the
past summer; and III this connection
[ wish to have read short letter from
the bishop of Arizona, an esteemed
functinary in my country, who has
had a great deal to do with the In
dams upon the frontier. ! ask that
that letter be read and entered upon
the record.
The Clerk read as follows:
TUCSON. Arizona. April %. 1870.
My Dear Sir: T am much obliged
to you, my dear sir, for the attention
with which you have kept me supplied
with whatever Of current interest there
might be relating to our Territory up
or questions which come before Con
gress. ] thank you particularly for
the manner in which you have recent
ly spoken upon Indian affairs.
had Just arrived from among the
Pima Indians when your remarks of
March reached me, and / was able
to Judge how much that speech con-
formed to the wants of those Indians
and to what they themselves desire.
Z found some Of them who informed
me they wished to have schools to adu-
cate their children, and had been led
70 hope for q long time for such, but
that the promises had never been real
lied. Nothing could be more Just and
more necessary than that moderate ap-
propriation of funds which you recon-
mendad for the purpose of educating
tho I-Or1Tcr pi1oas