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Show XI1 REPORT OF THE COMMISSION&B OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. I Prom the recommendation above made, it must not be understood to be either the policy or purpose of this office to in any nay encourage the spirit ofrapacity which demands the throwing open of the Indian Tez-ritory to white settlement. That country was set apart, half s century ago, as the home of the Indians. The eastern and better portion con-tains sufficient room for all the Indians now there, and all who will ever remore thither. The true way to secure its perpetual occupancy by Indians is to 611 it up with other Indians, to give them lands in sev-eralty, and to provide a governulent strong and intelligeut enough to protect them effectually kom any and all encroachments on the part of the whites. GOVERNXENT FOR THE INDIAN TERRITORY. Theanomalous form of government, if government it can be called, J at present existing in the 111dian Territory must soon he changed. some shape or other those I ~ ~ d i amn su st be brougllt under law and thIne 1 jurisdiction of the courts. The idea that that Territory is to consist for- , ex-er of a collectiou OF little illdependent or semi-independent nation-alities is preposterous. If thirt,y or fifty tho~lsandw hite men remore arid settle in anypart of the West, the Uuited States extends over them its lam and establishes a territorial gorernment, preparatory to its ad-lnission irlto the Uniou as a State ; aod i t can !a? ~ ~ e ~ toh, hearrd ship nor an injustice to the tribes in the Indian Territory, if, recognieing their right to aml~lec ompensatiou for the surrender of lauds which they do not need. we nlace them on a nar with nhitemen before the law. Any sucll ciange would un6oubtedly be resinted by mauy among the Indians themselres. In the so-called "~rations" arc a number of edu- I cated, intelligent, an1bitiot18 men, who uucler the present system are leaders of their ])eople, controlli~lgth eir atfairs and the expenditure of tlleir revenue. They very naturally deprecate ally change wbich will eudilnger such power. They argue wit11 great earnestness' that the atloption of a territorial form of government would be followed by an influx of nhite men into the Territory, and that the ultimate result to the Indiaus would he dispossession nf homes, and pauperism. Such a possibility could, howeyer, be averted by at1 allotment of land to each Iudian, made ins1ien;~ble to white men, aud by providing that no white luau shoold become a citizen of the Territory, or o \ ~ n oLr e ase any real estate therein. As to the particular form of government for the Indiau Territory, I am incliued to think that no better system can he devised than that suggested by my predecessor in the last annual report of this office, aa f-n -l.l.n- r .r. s- :. "The nee,d of this Territory to-day is a government of the simplest form possible; and, in my judgment, a government similar to that pro-vided for'the territor.7 of the Unitetl States northwest of the river Ohio,' (Stat, at L., vol. 1, page 51,) preliminary to the organization.of a general assembly, would, I think, be the best adapted for the Indian Territory at present, both on account of its simplicity and of its ecou-omy. I t consisted of a governor, a secretary, and judges, who had vower to a d o ~ ta nd isublish iu the Territory such law8 of the United ktates, c r i ~ ~ ~ ink i~l k ~ivdil, as were fuontl oe&sarj and best suited ro tht. c i r c~~tns t t~o~f~ rchee s'l 'erritoty, said laws to be rel~ortedt o Cougrnsi from time to ti~ne.nudt o be in li~rceiu wid Territory n ~ ~ l e s s d i e a ~ ~ l ~ r o ~ ' by that bodj ; the governor also to hare power to-appoint ma$strates ~ I I oIth~ e r necessary ciril officers. "The ;~nomalooss tate oC social and political affairs in this Territory |