Year: 1872

ferent kinds Of Indians to deal With.

 With some of these wild tribes on the frontiers of Arizona, New Mexico, and

 Texas @ peace policy is purely ex-

 perimental. Let that experiment be

 thoroughly and completely tried. but

 do not let it be tried with gross and constant misrepresentation of the

 people of the frontier. If the Indian

 peace commission has failed in any

 one respect, 1t has been in sending agents to the frontiers whose prej-

 udices are all in favor of the Indians and against the white people there.

 It Is hard upon men, who have suf- fered for years and years by the loss of their property, the destruction of their homes. the murder of their wives and children, to have men go there who have never been in the country before, and tell them that they have always

 been in the wrong and the Indians have been right.

 Here the hammer fell.

 MIR. SARGENT. I can reply, of course, only to the remarks of the gentleman which I have heard. I concurred last year in the amendment he then offered, and concur thls year in the amendment he has now offered. To show that the amendment is not at all hostile to what is called the policy of the Government, l desire to have read an order of the general com- that district, which directs that unless the Indians remain upon the reservations and behave them selves, they are to be treated as hostile Indians. They must remain upon the and if found wandering off from them they will be deemed as hostile to the Government and will be treated as enemies.

 The Clerk read the order of Gen. Crook requiring the Apaches to go upon reservations by February 15.

 MIR. SARGENT. Unquestiona5ly it is necessary where there are bands of roaming wild Indians, if the bounty of the Government is extended to- ward them on the condition that they shall remain peaceable and not molest our citizens, that they shall go upon reservations and remain upon the ter ritory especially assigned to them, and that across the lines of that small piece of territory white men shall not go to molest them. l think myself that the long-suffering people of Ari- zona-and l know they have been long suffering, and imposed upon by these fierce, hostile Indians down there T think they are unnecessarily sensitive when the agents of the Gov erment, men who I believe are of high character, are sent down there to inquire into the existing order of things, and to ascertain why, upon the average, one murder @ day was committed in that Territory; to as- certai m whether there are no means of bringing that state of things to close, whether these Indians, Cachise and other chiefs with their followers, can be induced to go upon reservations and remain there on condition that the Government would relieve their necessities while they remained there. They went down there; and the citi- zens of the Territory objected that 1t was an idle policy to put Indians upon and feed them, because when they had been fed they went out of the reservations to depredate, leaving behind them only their women, and old men. I believe they did not give sufficient weight to the idea which it was the design of the Government to convey to them, that while relief was carried to the Indians in one hand, there was in the other a sword which would punish, and punish relentlessly, wanton hostility committed afterward upon our people. This is the policy we shall endeavor to carry out in Arizona, and l know it has the sanction of the gentleman from Arizona himself.

 MIR. MCCORMICK. of Arizona. Let me say single word in this connec- ton. The order which has just been read, and which is most acceptable to the people of Arizona, is a new thing. No such order had been promulgated last year, and therefore it could not have been taken into consideration in with what was said at the ;ime. It was not made known at that ;ime to the people by the peace con- mission that such would be the fixed | policy of the Government. 1 believe