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Show 12 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER. desirable locality, homes for the enterprising and hardy pioneers w b are ready to occupy it, and by their energies speedily found a State, the beneficial influences of which, from its position, would be of incal-culable advantage to the Indian, as well as the govcrnment and people d the United States. It is respectfully sugges,ted that the sum of money apprcpriated by Congress at the last sesslon is not deemed adequate, in view of the extent and magnitude of the objects contemplated ; and it is recom-mended that a further appropriation be made early in the next session for the purpose of treating with the tribes indicated by the law of the last session, and an extension of that authority, so that treaties, if deemed necessary, either to supply the emigrated tribes with new homes, or otherwise, may be made with the other Indians in what is known as Nebraska. These treaties can, it is believed, aU be made in the months of April and &lay next, and submitted to the Senate in ample time for Congress to establish a civil government at its next session. r AS stated in the last anlm~rlc port, the negotiations with the Coman-ches, Kioways, and other Indinns on the Arkansas river, contemplated by an act passed at the preceding session of Congress, had necessarily to be postponed till the present season. At a suitable period last spring they were confided to the agent in that quarter. He was alm charged with the duty of procuring, from such of the Indians of his agency as were parties to the treaty of Fort Laramie, their assent to the amendment made to that treaty by the Senate; whereby the sup-plies of goods, p~ovisions and other articles of necessity, originally agreed to be furnished them annually for a period of fifty, were limited to the shorter term of ten years. The act of the 3d of RIarch last, making the appropriation for the second of these instalments, provided that the same should not be paid to the Indians until they had asented \ to the Senate's amendment ; and the agent was instructed accordingly. The report of this officer, herewith transmitted, evidences the satisfac-tory manner in which he has discharged the important duties confided to him in this connection, mcl as containing highly valuable informa-tion touching our relations with the prairie and mountain tribes, and grave suggestions relative to our future policy in reference to them, commends itself to the attention and consideration of all who may take an interest in the future of this unfortunate class of our Indian population. There is but a single agent for all the Indians of the Upper Arkan-sas and Platte rivers, and the immense region lying between them and between our ikontier tribes and the Rocky mountains. From the great extent of this agency, the numerous Indians within it, and the extrem distance between the larger bodies of them, it is wholly beyolid tlm power of one person to manage, whatever may be his qualifications. The Indians of the Arkansas, consisting of the northeln Comanches, Kioways, and others, are numerous, mischievously inclined, and infest the direct route to Santa F6. Their intercourse with the Indians of New Mexico is of decidedly evil tendency; and they either take part in the annual predatory expeditions into the frontier provinces of the Mexican republic, or are, to a considerable extent, the agents and |