Arizona citizen., 1872-03-16
INDIAN APPROPRIATION.

i greSS thlS year, as usual. ne apPro- prlatlons for Arizona are largely in creased, being as follows; Incidental fund for friendly Indians, $75,OOO; to continue work on irrigating canal, Colorado Reserve, $2O,OO0; to feed Apaches who may go on reservations, $25O,OOO, Total, $345.0O0.
 During the brief debate on the bill in the House, the following discussion occurred:
 The Clerk read as follows: Apaches:
 For this amount, to subsist and prop erly care for the Apache Indians in Ar1zona and New Mexico, who have been or may be collected on reserva- tions in New Mexico and Arizona, S250,000.
 MIR. MCCORMICK, of Arizona. l move to amend the clause last read by adding thereto the following: Provided, That this appropriation shall be expended only ill behalf of those Indians who go and remain upon sad reservations and refrain from hostility.
 That amendment is in the precise language of an amendment which 1 offered to the Indian appropriation bill last year, which was adopted by the House, and also by the Senate, and incorporated ill the law offer 1t be- cause we have suffered severely on the frontier from depredations committed by Indians who have been living on reservations and have gone directly from their reservation to commit dep- relations and murders, and they have returned ill many cases to the reserva- tions. l believe it is proven beyond all question that the Indians in Ari- zOna who murdered MT. Loring, of Boston, promising young author, were Indians who had been living on a military reservation, and started directly from the reservation to attack the stage-coach in which he was a passenger They not only killed him, but nearly all the other passengers in the stage, and within few days after they had committed this outrage they returned to the military reservation or to its vicinity.
 Now, owe it to my people to say right here that the stories set afioat during the past year, and which seem to have been believed by many peo- pie in the United States, that the peo- cf Arizona are opposed to, or have at any time been opposed to, a fair and honest effort to get the Apache h. dlans on reservations are simply un- true. What my people have objected to Is the fact that year after year these Indians, more or less, have been har- bored upon military reservations, have been allowed to go and come at will, and have constantly committed the most outrageous depredations throughout the length and breadth of the Territory, making it, as my hon. orable friend from California has justly said, "a very hell on earth" We do not object to the reservation system and to Che extension of the peace policy to that country, and I am dad to see such liberal appro- prlatlons put in this bill. It seems to me to be the best Indian appropria- ton bill that We have had, and the reason why there are more items in it ana greater Expenditures must be very clear to gentlemen who reflect on the fact that there is here one item alone of $250,OOO to try the experi- ment of feeding the Apaches in Ari- zona, who have expressed a willing ness, some of them, although not as many as has been stated here, to come upon the reservations.
 l have not the faith that some gentlemen here seems to have, that these wild Indians, who have been at war for centuries, are at once going to move upon reservations and consent to submit to the laws of the land and become honest and peaceable with them, and must keep standing army on the frontier to control them. But as the expenditure for feeding the h. dlans will increase, if these experi- ments are successful, so will the cost of the army decrease for the defense of the frontier, and we will save in proportion.
 1 believe the peace policy of the President, so called, whether his