Mr. RAMSEY. The great difficulty is in carrying provender for your horses on these immense interior wastes. )Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. President, there is but one way to deal with these Indians on the lains: you must feed them or fight them. here is not much honor to be won by the Army or by the Government in fighting with these Indians. Compared with us, they are a very feeble people. We are strong; we are a great nation. They are wandering nomads Over the plains, with no more habitation than the buffalo has. They go with the butialo, and where the buffalo goes. They live upon the bnffalo, and with the butiulo, and range over those vast plains. The honorable Senfrom California suggests that we should by military power reduce them to subjection and compel them to obedience. Whenever we meet them we can conquer them and capture and slaughter them; but it is just as impossible, within any reasonable amount of expenditure, to catch these Indians and reduce them to obedience h war as it is to catch the buffalo upon the gains or the blackbirds that fly over the plains. ir, the proposition to organize great military expeditions with artillery, to go through these immense plains and to carry provender for horses, where every bushel will cost you from 3 to 5 and even ten dollars to feed the horses on which you ride, is a proposition to at the finances of the Government into a ottoniless pit. I know it costs something to keep these Indians together and feed them; it costs something to make treaties with them. My friendfrom Ohio smiles at the idea of a treaty with an Indian tribe. He thinks the thing is ridiculous on its face. Compared with a.treaty with GreatBritain, I admit it is a very trivial affair; but so long as human nature is composed of those elements which dwell even in the breast of an Indian as well as a white man, by manifestations of friendship, by kind treatment, by presents, by feeding them, you can have peace with them better than by fighting with them, and at 100th part of the expense.