Arizona citizen., 1874-03-07
ARIZONA IN CONGRESS.
Remarks by Congressmen Kendall of Nevada, Mccormick of Arizona, and Nesmith of Oregon, During the Discussion on the Bill to Re- duce the Army.

the Discussion on the Bill to Re-
 duce the Army.
 The following, though pretty lengthy, is quite interesting reading for the iron tier, and we therefore give it preference over other matter more exclusively local. It is from the Washington correspondence of The San Francisco Bulletin:
 In the course of his speech, MT. Kendall quoted largely from the statements made by General Sherman before the Military Committee to show how usefully the pres ert force is employed, and, at the suggeS- tion of Delegate Mccormick, read the Generals account of the Fifth Cavalry ill Arizona concluding as follows:
 Under the leadership of General Crook, it has subdued the wild Apaches, who are now as much afraid of this regiment as Indians ought to be afraid of our soldiers. General Crook, with this regiment and some infantry, has restored comparative peace to that country; not peace exactly,
 but such peace only as can exist in that miserable desert land. If you, gentle men, will get Mexico to take Arizona back, I will agree to knock two regiments ' Tom Corwin used to say, "it is our coun- try, and therefore we must love 1t and protect it."
 "Here, perhaps" said MT. Kendall, l owe an apology to my friend from Arizo- na for reading too far and too much.
 Laughter.l
 Without indorsing all these state ments as regards the character Of that Territory, which, as l have already re- marked, is represented so faithfully by my frieGd at my side, 1 would say that, in Ely belief, the operations carried on by General Crook in Arizona have done more to open up that Territory, abouading, as 1 think, in vast resources, than all the maudlin sentiment and pious eXhorta- tions of your Eastern Fecksniffs and -philanthropists, so lavishly eX- pended from the organization of the peace commission down to yesterday, when all the people of Arizona were kindly ad- vised by the gentleman from New York Mir. Vince CT to abandon the country they have partially subdhed, and come within the limits of civilization" Laugh ter.
 Mr. Mccormick denied the correctness Of General Sherman's statements regard ing the character of the Territory he rep presented. He, Mccormick, was prepar ed to say, after ten years of familiarity with the southwestern region acquired under the Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Gadsen treaties, after ten years of exam
 ination of its resources, that he believed it to be one of the richest mineral dis tricts belonging to the govcrnment-a country well worth protecting, and which to low ha afn OT' dollars to the Treasury of the United States if it had had adequate protection tor it's settlers, so that they could prose cute their industries without constant in terruptiOn on the part of the hostile say ages. If this protection were afforded, the Territory would soon yield revenue of S20,000, coo a year from its gold and silver mines, to say nothing of its utterly underrated resources of other descrip- tions While it was true that many of
 the bold Apaches had been forced by General Crook to go upon reservations, yet it was equally certain that they would not stay there unless he is allowed to re- tain all the force ne has at this time. The presence of the troops to watch them upon the reservation was, according to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, a part
 of the Presidents so-called peace policy and le (McCormicl) earnestly protested against any reduction of the number. Furthermore, he protested most en- phatic2lly against the acceptance, year after year, of statements from persons who are not qualified to speak on subjects
 relating to the frontier, and against what he characterized as the absolute indiffer enCe to the men who come from there,
 and who have right to speak. The iron tiersmen, he insisted, are as much entitled 1 to the confidence and protection of the
 government as though they lived in the city of New York.
 Mir. Nesmith, ot Oregon, embraced the
 first opportunity he could obtain to take part in the debate, and made some very emphatic remarks in denunciation of the peace-policy as administered by the Gre | ligious element" of the Indian service. These '' missionaries sent out by the gov
 ernment," he said, has rendered no pro- lection, but, on the contrary, had robbed and plundered the treasury. All the pro- lection that was ever afforded the frontier was derived from the presence of troops; and the brave and gallant soldiers who were sent out to subdue the ModOcs, had been kept in abeyance by the Peace Com missloners for three months, while sup plies were being sent to feed the Indians who had murdered OUT women and our children on the frontier. He proceeded:
 "These stump p-orators of the Lord Tlaughterl, these broken-down gospel peddlers renewed laughterI, who are se-