Mr. TRUMBULL. Then the provision with regard to these connecting roads seems to me to be a very dangerous one. I know we have had in my State a great deal of controversy as to the lines of railroad, and whether companies should be authorized to build the roa s just where they leased and to connect where the pleased. There is a provision in this 11th section broad enough to authorize the Camden and Aniboy Railroad Company to build a road to connect with the Neosho I alley railroad in Kansas. It authorizes any road in the U.S., as I understand it, to make a connection with this road. I do not suppose the bill is intended for any such purpose, but it seems 0 me it is very loosely guarded, to say the cast. I wish to throw no obstacle in the way of the grants of lands for railroad purposes in the new States. I think it has been a Wise policy which has led to the granting of every other alternate section of the public lands where by such grant we have secured the construction of a road; but to grant these lands as we are now doing, without very much consideration, and granting them one after another, covering the country all over with grants which are conflictin one with another, and conflicting with the rights of the Indian tribes, to whom we have set a art these districts of country, is calculated to cad Can the Indian tribes to a conflict of titles hereafter which will be productive of infinite mischief in all this new country. My attention was called to this subject of the grant of lands through the Indian country in consequence of my being upon the Indian Committee, upon which I was placed for the 1st time at the present session of Congress; and I felt very much embarrassed in my action 11 on that committee in consequence of grants oiljland which have already been made through the Indian country. We find that railroad companies to whom grants of land have been made insist, and they insist with some plausibility, too, that the Congress of the U.S., having anted them the right of way through the Indian country, althoug there is a provision in the treaty that the Indians are to be protected and no white man is to settle within the limits of the district of country set apart to them, has placed itself under obligation to the company to clear up the title on to give them the lands; and when we come to settle the Indian tribes, and make tr'eaties with other Indian tribes, an objection is interposed at once, especially by the Senfrom Kansas not now in his seat, [Mr. LANi:] that he will not consent that any more Indians shall be settled in the Indian country in Kansas. Why? Because the faith of the nation is pledged to these railroad companies and to get these Indians out of Kansas; and I might state to the Senate, if anyone was paying attention to what I was saying. that the result within the last 2 years of these claims set up on the part of Kansas has been that 1500 In ians, who were driven out of the Indian country by the war and up into Kansas, have been sent out of Kansas and back to Fort Gibson, and have been there for the last 18 months, living in tents and fed by our supplies, without doing a thing. They have got no country, and they are just living there, camping out like soldiers around Fort Gibson. “e are feeding them, or otherwise the would starve to death.