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Show ipLst0, i f . . /gbd EztractJiom report tlie semitary 61atrrior. The voluminous rcport of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs exltihits in de tail the condition of this di6calt and important branch of the public service. The numerous treaties recently negotiated with various Indian tribes have greatly augmented the labors of the department, and the constant pressore of emigration into the Indian territory produces conflicts of interest which nlquire judicious management to adjust and control. The Co~nmissioners ets forth the terms and stipulations of those treaties. The Indian tribes of thesouthwest have resumed their former friendly relations with the government, and it is hoped that they will succeed in fully adjnstitlg the differences which have heretofore existed among them in ~.o~n~se ouenceotfh e different attitudes thev were induced to assume towards the United %a& during the rebellion. There are before the Senate some important treaties with the Indian trihesiu Utah, Kansas, and Dakota, to which the attention of that body is respectfulty invited. Sereral treaties recently ne otiated with Indian tribes in the northwest will be submitted to you at an early 8 ay, to be laid before the Senate for its con-sideration and action. It is believed that, should they he ratified and faithfully executed, peaceful relations will he established with powerful tribes occupying a vast extent of country, who have recently hem in hostility to the government. The Commissioner suggests the necessity of further negotiations with some of the Indians in Kansas, with a vir.rv to their removal from that State; and also with the Indian tribes in Idaho, New Mexico,and Dakota, for theirremoval to and settlement upon reservations to be set apart for tbeir exclusive occupancy and use. These s~lggeetionsw ill receive the early an2 careful consideration of the department. Collisions and hostility have been of lees frequent occumeuce between the whites and the Indians during the past yenr, than has been gen-erally helieved. Occasionally,depredatious have been committed,and raids made upon emigrants aud settlers ; hut these are believed to have been greatly exag. nerated, either hv the feais of tlte inexperienced and timid, or the cupidity aud a . - eclfishuees of ' i t~t~~rc~antdc cdlc signilqg ~i~r cnlntorP~e.n ce appeara to l~nvcb rr.11 thr r u l ~a,n d f~ostilitit~ls~ er ~ c~l,t;orLt~.I IVL.CL~I l t e.\l i>ji.sippir iver and l l~lcl oclip moontains It has heeu tlie settled policy of the government to estrtblish the vnrions tribes upon euitable reservations and there protect and subsist them until they can be taught to cultivate the soil and sustain themselves. I t ia no doubt the best, if n- ot the oulv. uoliev that can be oursued to nreserve them from extinction. ~ ~ 9 . < Xumeroad n!comnicnJa~iut~ist~ ukingt o tLc amvlioration of the condition of these wards of tha ~ovr!rutuenr,m u eor~taiaedi n tier Comrnis~ior~rrrc'~pm f, and will no doubt receive the attention of Congress. |