Mr. DOOLITTLE. I hope the bill will not be recommitted, because that question has been discussed here in the Senate, and the Senate fully understands what the views of the committee are on that subject; and the committee have considered that question as to how an inspection should be made, and have made the best report they are capable of making. While upon the floor I desire to say one word by way of rely to the honorable Senfrom Kentucky, [Mr. GUTHRIE] He seemed to as some that the purpose of this bill was to up point a board of inspection above the heads of the Depts of the Government. I do not understand it so. The heads of Depts with whom the responsibility rests of necessity are located here in Washington, and this inspection board is but an agency to be employed by the President and by the heads of Depts to ascertain facts in relation to the administration of Indian affairs in the far interior, just as in the War Dept we have actually inspectors general w i0 are used for this very purpose of inspecting into the transactions of the military forces, to inspect the arms, to in spect the quartermasters, and to inspect the commissaries in the distribution of clothing and supplies to the Army, and to report ener ally on the condition of the Army to the ends of the Army, in order that correctives maybe applied. The truth is that our Indian a ministration is a kind of mixed administration, partly civil and partly military. There are some Ierritories and some States where Indian tribes are located on reservations where no military forces are required at all, and where the administration of Indian affairs is purely civil. There are other Territories where the Indians are yet in such a wild state that almost the entire udministration of Indian affairs must be under the control of the military. There are other sections and tribes where it is mixed, semi civil and semi military. To cover all the cases our purpose was to have a board of inspection which would look closely after the civd administration and the military administration of Indian affairs, and we did hope to incorporate into it also what in the administration of Indian affairs in all the British Provinces is one of the greatest points in their policy and most cherished, and that is in relation to their schools, their missions, and their religious instruction. We desire to have all these 3 things looked into by the organization of this board the civil administration, the Military administration, and, if you please, the moral or spiritual administration of Indian affairs. That was the purpose; so that instead oft being a board set over the heads of Depart ents, either over the SecyWar or the SecyInterior, it is to be organized in subordination to the President, for the purpose of aiding in the administration of Miriam, oth civil and military, as far as the Indians are concerned.