Mr. COBB. I think there must be some ll mistake about this matter. Iam at a great loss to see how the gentlemen who compose that committee could have come to the conclusion this should be stricken out of the estimates of the Dept. The greater portion of these roving bands of Indians, to which this recommendation alludes, were originally colonized in the State of Wisconsin. They were brought there about 24 or 25 years ago. They were. some ten or 15 years ago, induced to accept a reservation purchased in what I think is now the State of Kansas or Territory of Nebraska, and were removed to that reservation. 0 They ralmost immediately returned, a large portion of them, to the State (if Wisconsin. It ink they have been removed half a dozen times by the antherity of the government. I have seen a person called a special agent of the Government removin them; but no sooner does he get them across teriver and settled upon their reservation than they wander back again and colonize themselves on the Wisconsin river in the central part of the State. Of course, as soon as winter sets in they are, left destitute, and commit depredations upon the white people. Quite a number of murders and other crimes have been committed by them. Isay unless the Government takes care of them in some way, unless seine authorized agent takes charge of them or removes them they will become an intolerable nuisance. I know that with the utmost exertion of my colleague, [Mr. Mclsnon] in whose district these Indians are, and who has a great influence with them, I say it has been with the greatest difficulty, with every personal exertion on his art, that he has prevented the white inhab iants turning out and annihilating these Indians all over the State. It has only been prevented by a pledge given that the Government would take care of these Indians, and prevent the necessity of their living by pillage, as they have done in the winter time. It is a matter of absolute necessity that something should be done. These bands of roving Indians are now without any means of support. The Government has made appropriations like this for years past, and these ndians have lived upon them up to this time. Therefore, unless the Government removes them and keeps them away, it becomes an absolute necessity that the Government should take care of them.