Mr. BURLEIGH. It is high time, sir, if statesmen legislate for this Government, and not for favored individuals, that they look to this matter, and do not allow important measures to pass Congress until satisfied of their necessity and justice. It will be but a few days before you are called upon to appropriate another large sum, (I learn near one million dollars) for the payment of supplies professed to have been used in support of southwestern Indians, under what are called starvation contracts, although I believe the law strictly forbids expending money in advance of its appropriation. It would be well for the country if Congress would a point a committee to investigate the transactions of the Indian Office for the last 9 months a committee which is not to be frightened at the cart loads of documents usually arrayed as abulwark of defense by that office whenever an investigation into its affairs is sought; but who will boldly, justly unriddle the sphinx. such honaenszled'hipaunsd is certainly needed, and [hope that such a committee will be appointed, unless the present investigating committee will take this matter in charge. If my information is correct, and I have no reason to doubt it, t ffairs of the concern, notwithstanding the pay ng and blowing, (paid for, I presume,) Wlll show a condition' of things which can only exist in a close corporation, under a united head, where incompetency and pass rance appear to have full swa, and where the Ililiputian scepter of the esta lishment is wielded by its mandarin with an assumption of authorit that would dwarf the pretensions ofa. Caman e chicforaPatagonian prince. Another great cause of difficulty which at tends the management of our Indian affairs is a want of accurate information b congress concerning the true condition of teIndians. he men who are sent into the Indian country as agents to take charge of and manage the affairs of our numerous Indian tribes of there tranimeled with the arbitrary rules of teoffice here, by which their usefulness is to a greater or less extent destroyed. The agents who are on the spot, who live with the Indians, are the only persons capable of judging what course of action should be pursued in the management of their respective tribes. But this cannot be; a haughty commissioner in this city undertakes to direct in the smallest transactions for a tribe of Indians located 2,000 miles distant, not a solitary member of which he has ever aeen. Iwill take the case of the Yanktons. hey made a treaty by which the U.S. agreed to pay them the sum of $65,000 peryear for a given number of years. Now sir, neither these Indians nor their agent who lives with them is allowed to control the expenditure of this money for the use of the tribe. Why is it? I cannot account for this extraordinary conduct in any other way than that it is a very great pleasure for him to make very large purchases, with a very broad margin, to supply the wants of the Indian service. Io man is capable of controlling our Indian relations as they should be unless be thoroughly understands the habits of life, the wants, and the actual necessities of these people. But we are told that Indian agents are not competent to do these things. How many agents do you suppose there are in the service of the Government today, and under the sole control of the Commissioner, who are not his e nals in ability to discharge the duties of his 0 cc? Again, we are told that Indian agents will steal, that they are not to be trusted. I have no idea that Indian agents are much more honest. than Commissioners, Secretaries, or other public officers, but I venture the assertion that they will compare favorably with any other body of public servants in this particular. But there are other and more reprehensible transactions of this dept of the Government to which I desire to call the attention of Congress and the country; transactions which are in violation of every principle of equity, repugnant to the honest impulses of human nature, and which involve the lives and propertiy of our citizens. r n the year 1862 the Sioux Indians in minnesota, in violation of their treaty obligations with the U.S., revolted and treacherously murdered near1,000 unprotected men, women, and children in that State. Who does not remember the thrill of horror which sickened every heart in the land as the intelligence of these acts of brutalit and barbarism fle upon the ears of our peop e? The whole western frontier of Minnesota was deopu lated, and as these red murderers were orced westward into Dakota by the brave citizen soldiery of that State, in the defense of the ir homes and firesides, our people fled for safety and left the Territory admost without inhabitants. In 1863 the Government decided to remove from Minnesota all the remainin Sioux Indians. Some 500 of the m w o‘had been captured and condemned to death for their particiggancy in the late massacre were imprisoned Davenport, Iowa, where they were kept under strong military guard, while the rest of them were removed to Dakota at a pointon the Missouri river about 150 miles above the capital of that Territory. Neither the personal safety nor the pecuniary interests of our people were consulted in this transaction. If they had been, there would have been but one voice, and that would have been a united exclamation of disapprobation. They would have entered their solemn protest against the location of these Indians, even thus far above the friendly Yanktons, and more than 50 miles above our frontier military osts. p The result of this businesshas been the expenditure of several 100,000 dollars of Government funds, and the cold blooded mur der of many of our best citizens who have fallen before the fatal ride of these same savages. Whole families of our people have been slaughtered. Husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters, neither age nor helpless infancy have been spared by these bloody Sioux q fiends of Minnesota, who were so heartlessly forced upon our people by one foolish and inconsiderate act of Government, the inhuman audacity of which would have disgraced the meanest mandates of the Boy of Tunis or the De of Algiers. Iy would to God, that this were the last chater of wron s which is to be recorded on the fair pages of the unwritten history of our exposed and neglected frontiers, in the blood of our best citizens. BntI greatly fear that such is not to be the case.