Mr. HIGBY. Mr. Speaker, I will say, out side of the question now in debate, that this is a matter of very great importance, and one that i. to be fully investigated before the House, and that the 2 hours the one previous to the call of the previous question and the one that follows it are not sufficient time to make such investigation. I should hope that we could have some evening set apart, as suggested by the Gentfrom Iowa, [Mr. KAssoN] to debate this question and gather together the information that is within our reach in regard to it. I will state I am particularly anxious about this matter, for I was a member of the special committee appointed in 1864 to make this in vestigation, and I will state a large amount of information was gathered by that committee and furnished to the House, and it ought to have been printed by this time. It might help us to some light upon this subject. I agree that it is a lamentable condition of things that in a nation such as we claim to be a matter of this kind cannot be properly at tended to without such a vast amount of stealing as has been spoken of here, and which cannot be denied. And I must say I was thoroughly convinced, after several months' examination in a portion of this Indian Territory, that there has been an amount of stealing that would startle the public mind if fully developed. I will say in regard to the bill introduced by the ComIndAffrs providing for a change in the administration of this dept, or for its transfer to another branch of the Government, that I think the House ought to approve of it and pass it. It has been devised, examined, and got up under the super vision of a special committee, and meets with its approval. We have believed that under all the circumstances this was the only way to check the vast swindle which has been carried on in this Indian dept of the Government for years past. Either one thing or the other should be done by Congress. Either it ought to pass this bill leaving the Indian dept where it now is, but giving some security for the check of this swindling, or else let the whole system pass into other hands. I am not prepared to say that this change will be for the better. I should be inclined to favor the passage of the bill without any change. But I would like to hear from those who are in favor of this policy a lit tle more and to obtain some insight into it. That is the reason why I am in favor of fixing some time for more debate, as suggested by the Gentfrom Iowa, [Mr. KAssoN] With the permission of the Gentfrom Minnesota [Mr. WINDoy] I will move a reconsideration of the vote by which the main question was ordered, and then move to make this bill a special order.