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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 55 last year succeeded in preventing an arrangement with thegovernment by wbich the claims of their ~ e o ~olhe a ccount of Kansas lands shonld be settled, have come to a sense of the folly of their conduct at that time, and a petition has been received from many of them asking that action may be taken by the gov-ernment in the matter, by tbe appointment of a commission to settle their claims. They have been informed that the subject is under advisement. I recommend au early consideration of this case, so that the long-pending clailns of this peo-ple may be fully and fairly adjusted. The only school report forwarded is that of the Thomas Orphan Asylum, which receives aid from the civilization fund to the amount of $1,000 annually. The wisdom of the expenditure is fully confirmed by the success of the school, which is under charge of the Society of Friends, and appears to he doing great good. Its average number of pupils has been fifty-three, during the year ending September 30. BINANCBS. I t is unnecessary to call your attention to the evils arising from the anticipd tiou of appropriations in making purchases of goods, andotherwise providing for the Indians, but I deem it my duty to allude to a state of facts that, in some cases, seems to have rendered such anticipation necessary. In certain treaties which I have specified in the report accompanying my an-nnal estimates it is contemplated that the appropriations be made by the calen-dar year. They are made by the fiscal year commencing six months later, and this brings them half a year behind; and the department is compelled either to anticipate the appropriations, or he guilty of a breach of faith with the Indiaus. I have, therefore, in my estimates, called for an appropriation of one instalment in advance under these treaties. The large emigration to the western Territories, caused by the development of the ereat mineral wealth of those reeions. is fast circumscrihine the ranee of the 1nZians and driving them from thei;ancient hunting-grounds. h he e x G s e of taking care of the Indians, and maintaining peace between tbem and the set-tlers, isthus necessarily much increased, anb&e amounts appropriated for the current fiscal year for some of the Territories will fall short of the necessities of the service. I n the case of Utah, I found, on assuming my position here, that the entire amount anorooriated for general and incidental exaenses there had Lee11 exhausted, and'nvir $3,000 11z1hr rn expended in exec4 of the ~ppropri-ation; and of the apltroprialion of S25,000 for Sevada, but $4,921 93 rvmained otl l~anda t the beeinnine ofthe fiscal yenr. IIIb oth tlrese cases. too, there are claims outstanding whi& the department has not the means to pay. The accompanying table will indicate the amounts drawn prior to July I, 1865, from appropriations for the current fiscal year. This shows that $185,622 43 was anticipated fromapproprintiona under treaties, and $115,520 02 from miscellaneous appropriations. Whether all these anticipations were necessary, or whether any of tbem should have occurred.. need not now be discussed. So lone as I am at the head ~~ ~ ~ 0 uf this Lnreau I shall not &.em it proper in any rdse to anticipate apyroprid-tionu ; but to prerrnt 8uB'erino among the Iudiaur, to insure peace between IIIPUI and t&e whit&. and to oreve$ embarrassments to the service. I resoectfullv ask that the attention of &ngress be called to the exi'sting state of fkcts askarly as practicable in the coming session. I also desire to call your attention to the fact that, n n d ~trr eaty stipulations with various Indian tribes in Oregon and Washington Territories, the amounts appropriated now are the same as before the war, when the payments were made in coin. The consequence is, that in many instances the appropriations are not sufficient to enable the officers of the department to plocure the services of the employ6s'provided for by the treaties. |