INDIAN APPROPRIATION BILL. Mr. KASSON. I am instructed by the ComAppropriat to report back the amendments of the Senate to case bill No. 387, making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian dept, and for fulfillin treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes or the year ending 30th June 1867. As preliminary to the proposition I have to submit I wish to make a brief state ment. This is the regular Indian appropriation bill, intended to provide supplies called for by treaties with the various Indian tribes. It was so reported from the ComAppropriat, and it went to the Senate as a bill appropriating about 2,150,000 dollars. It comes back from the Senate appropriating something over 4 million dollars. Nearlyall of the $2,000,000 added in the Senate is for supplies called for by new treaties made with the Iliidians. In connection with these new treaties, the ComAppropriat have proposed to non-concur in the amendment of the Senate, proformd in order to obtain proper information from the conferees on the part of the Senate touching the provisions of the treaties under which these grants are made. Some of these treaties introduce a new practice and provide annuities for 40 years, while formerly they were limited to 20 years, with here and there an exception as far as 30 years. The ComAppropriat have deemed it proper, if possible, to come to some understanding with the Senate as to the extent to which the treaty making power should be car ried in binding us to carry out treaties. I wish here to submit a statement of the appropriations for Indian expenditures. yearly n the year 1829 the appropriation was $199,10253; in 1839 it was $603,60345; in 1861 it was $1,822,93048; in 1863 it was $1,866,83588; in 1864 it was $2,131,86567; in 1865 it was $2,257,93296; in 1806 it was $3,036,848 91; and now, under this bill, it is about $4,050,000. With this increase in the appropriations for this one branch of the public service, mainly arising from the unlimited discretion of the Senate in making treaties with Indian tribes, it has seemed to the ComAppropriat necessary, in connection with t iis bill, Ftelcome to some understanding that will limit this extravagant increase in the appropriations for this branch of the public service. 3 ith this intention the ComAppropriat propose that the House non-concur in the amendments of the Senate involving appropriations to carry out the new treaties, so that the committee may examine the treaties and ascertain whether any guard can be thrown around the expenditure of appropriations for Indian affairs. We have, therefore, recommended a non-concurrence in all the miscella neous extra treaty appropriations in the bill with a view to a free conference with the senate on the proper mode of arrauing these matters for the uture as well as in the present bill. If the House concurs in the propriety of this course, I propose that the action recommended by the Committee on apro riations be concurred in in gross, and the bill a lowed to go to a committee of conference for the purposes which I have named.