Mr. HENDERSON. Mr. Speaker, I feel unwilling to trouble the House with any reomfartkhse aCtotmhme itptereesenotn tiImndeia; nbuAt ffaasirsa mIedmebeemr it my duty to exPress my views in reference to the question now under consideration. I could not, sir, but be surprised to hear the i.from Iowa [Mr. KAsson] make the eclaration that the expenses of the Indian dept have been increasing for years. It is the most natural thing which could possi bly be imagined, for every year the Government of the U.S. is grasping large portions of the Indian territory. We absorb the lands of the Indians, and every year large numbers of Indians are brought under the care of the Government. Just so long as the gove rnment continues to grasp Indian lands we expect an increase of expenditure in the noan dept. it is not my vo to speak in favor of the system. I am in favor of a change. I think the plan reported from the Indian Committees is best for the protection of the Indians and for economy in Government expenditures. I object to turning the charge of the Indians over to the War Dept. Experience has proved that the Indians corrupt the military and the military corrupt the Indians. I will not stop to advance proof of that fact; but I repeat that the Indians corrupt the military and the military corrupt the Indians. They work mutual corruption on each other, and the less they have to do with each other the better. It is true that this Government can pursue toward the Indians the policy of extermination and extinction; and let me say if you want to hasten their extinction you can take no surer mode than by putting them entirely into the hands of the military. I doubt not when you do that your progress will be rapid. If, on the contrary, the Indians are placed under the charge of civilians, their morals will be culti vated, and they will be led through a knowl edge of the Christian religion to civilization and peace. The bill under consideration looks to that end; and for that reason, believing it is the best, I will support it. It has been framed in the interest and welfare of the red children of the forest, and I hope it will be passed.