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Show EXTRACT. 5 that the oniy plan that holds out any hope for the decaying aboriginal races, is to confine them to small tribal reservations, having well-defined exterior boundaries, so that the intercourse laws can be enfirced thereon, and to divide these reservations into farms of moderate dimensions, to be held in severalty by the individual members of the tribe, with all the rights incident to an estate in fee simple, except that of alienation. Annuities should be paid, not in money but ingoods, provisions, agri-cultural implements, and seeds, and authority should be glven to the agents to discriminate in their distribution between the industrious and the idle, the orderly and the thriftless. These ideas form the basis of all the Indian treaties which have been negotiated during your admin-istration, and I would suggest that they should be established by law as the fixed policy of the government. The colonization system, which was tried in California and Texas, under the direction of Congress, and from which I at one time hoped for the most favorable results, has proved an entire failure. It is ex-pensive and radically defective. To promise for it any success, one of two modifications must be introduced. Either the overseer or agent must have a right of property in the products of the reservation, and be allowed to ret.ain for his private use and benefit the snrplus which may remain after feeding and clothing the Indians, or each In-dian must work for himself and gather for himself, and the idle and the thriftless must be made to feel the effects of their$dleness and nn-thriftiness, and to realize practically the difference between him who sows and reaps and him who does not. Frequent complaints having been made by the Cherokee authorities of unauthorized settlements upon a portion of their territory known as the Neutral Land, measures were taken to remove the cause of com-plaint. Last spring the settlers were notified that they were unau-thorized intruders, mere naked trespassers, in fact, upon an Indian reserve, and that they must remove, or the law would be enforced against them. No attention having been paid to the notice, the agent for the Cherokees, acting under orders from the Indian Office, has re-cently visited the reserve, and, by the aid of the United States troops, forcibly removed the settlers from that portion of the reserve lying south of what is known as the Calhoun line. It appears from the records of the department that owing to an error in protracting the northern boundary of the neutral land the line was made to run eight or nine miles south of the true boundary, leaving outside of the reserve, as marked on the map, a strip known as the "Dry Woods," which should have been included in it. It was generally believed that the dry woods was part of the New Pork reservation, on which settlements were per-mitted, and as the settlers there had gone in in good faith and made valuable improvements, the agent did not molest them. Believing myself that the settlers on the tract in question are law-abiding citi-zens, that they established themselves there in good faith, and in ntter ignorance of the trespass tbey were committing, and that tbey have expended large sums in opening and improving their farms, I think it would be a great hardship if they were now compelled to remove., I have, therefore, suspended the execution of the law until the end of the approaching session of Congress, in order that they may have an |