Mr. KASSON. It will be observed, Mr. Speaker, that I made no charge of willful misstatement against the chairman of the ComIndAffrs. I never make such a charge against any member of this House. The House will bear me testimony that I am thoroughly exempt from any such indecorum. But I do say that the gentleman, before he called in question my statement, should have examined the authority upon which he made the denial; because if there be one thing in which I take pride in connection with my action in this House it is the fact that never is a statement made by me calculated to mislead the House. It is especially my duty, as well as my F'. to manifest this characteristic when rePresent the ComAppropriat. I have taken pains to rectly; exhibit this matter cor and I am very glad that I am able to do so, for it at least shows that if the statement of the ComrIndAff is now accurately Presented to the House, then that bureau itself misstates an important fact having a bearing upon the action already taken by the House, manifesting its distrust in the administration of that bureau. Now, let me say, touching the Present head of the Indian Bureau, Colonel Bogy, that I have no imputation to make upon him from any facts.have come to my knowledge. I have always found that the French creoles, from their acquaintance with the disposition and habits of the Indians, are peculiarly well qualified to manage them successfully. I have no quarrel with any officer of the interior dept. I wish it understood that every argument I have advanced in this House has been based on my conviction that the public interest requires the change of jurisdiction which I have advocated, a change in the administrative system, in order to secure greater integrity and efficiency, and to get rid of the double headed system which has brought so many evils on the country. Why, sir, the chairman of the ComIndAffrs gave the House to understand that this cry about outrages committed by the Indians and their massacres is all a mere matter of alarm. So far from it, all the papers that I have taken up for a week past from the West, and especially the Chicago papers, which collec, all the news from the Territories, are filled with accounts of Indian outrages and massacres, and of the aggregation of various tribes for the purpose of a general war. We can do nothing without troops there. When war comes we must have troops, and then the expenses spoken of by the Gentfrom Minnesota [Mr. WINDoM] occur. It is in this manner that these military expenses have grown up. The Gentfrom Minnesota ridicules the idea of intrusting the affairs of the Indian Bureau to the War Dept, and he stated yesterday that the Indians on the Bosque redondo reservation had cost $1,500,000 for one year. if I misunderstood him fask him to cor. rect mo now.