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Show 10 .RE PORT OF COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. several of the most competent and reliable agents during the year from. this cause. No man capable of manaping the business of an aeencv ranging from $15,000 to-$200,000 ough% to be asked to give full s<rri& to the Government for $1,500 a year. I recommend that the salary of agents be increased to $2,000 per annum for the more eastern agencies, and $2,500 for those remote audiuaccessible. OONDITIONS OF PBOGRESS. In estimating the actual progress attained, under the operation of what has been termed the peace policy, it is necessary to keep in mind the constant change it1 the position of the Indians toward the white settlers. Tribes which a. few years a.go were so far removed from a11 , white settlements as to reuder any aunoyance or conflict between the two races improbable and almost impossible, have now, by the tide of emigration, been brought in close proximity to, and almost daily con-tact with, settlers. Naturally the difficulties in the Iudian problem are largely increased by such contact. Tile clashing interests of both par-ties produce irritation and make complaints more numerous. But the peace policy is not to be charged with these increasing troubles, nor to be connnected with them except by the inquiry as to what would probably have beeu the difficulties, in tbe same circum-staums, under any other policy. The question of the chilization of Indians reduced to its last analy-sis is twofold. First, whether the Government is willing to make sufficient appropriat,iou to teaoh ha~baronsm en how to live in a civil-ized w y ; and, second, whether the expenditure of such an appropria-tion can be fairly made through the adhinistratiou of persons fitted to become their teachers. Without suitable provision for the necessary expeuditures the best efforts of the best men will be comparatively futile; and with the most abundant provision that the resources, of the nation can make, nothing will be accomplished worthy of the effort nu-less there can be found persons ready and fitted to go to these Indians, in the spirit of kindness and Christian love, with a, faith in God and a faithin man strong enough to sustaiu them >mid the degradation and per-versities of barbarism, and cheer them on in the full conviccwn that no being madc in God's image is iucapable of improvement. No effort for lifting the poor and degraded ca.n succeed which is not guided by the enthusiasm which comes from t.bis faith. The agent and his employ6s mill not give full work without it, and the Indiau will not throw 08 his suspicion and wake out of his illdoleuce until he feels this touch of hurnan sympathy. For this reason the Government is specially to be congratulated or1 the response which the Christian people of the country hare made to the propositiou of the President that they should take a certairl super-vision of Government labor for the Indians, by nominating agents and fl~rnishinge mploy& suitable to represent the Government in its beuefi- ,cent efforts with these tribes, as well as in sending missionaries and teachers for religious labor among them.. THE INDIAN TERRITORY. The aPairs of this Territory will doubtless receive the serious con. sideration of Congress during the Coming session. The praebieal absence of law as between the inhabitants of the Territory and the oitifiena of the United States; the general state of nnthrift from lack |