The Clerk read the communication, as follows: Damnrumor or run Ixrsiiion, WASHIXOTON ic, s lupus AFFAIRS. D. o., December15. 1885. Sin; Referring to other;report of the 8th instant, submitting flJOllll. resolution tor the diversion of cer taip funds under the control of the Dept for the relicf of destitute Indians and Indian tribes, I would respectiully urge that you recommend the matter to the immediateattention of congress. There can be no doubt of the act that 1,000s of Indians in the Indian Territory uro destituteof food and clothing; that they are actually starving With hunger and cold. mTillhioen rsecoofrddoslolafr the War Dept Will show that persons who have lately feedwhite beenin rebellion axamstthe Government and whose ability to sustain themselves waItscertainly oouulto that or these Indians is not a new. fin to the Dept that these people aresutiering. Ihcir great calamities, growing out of the war; the utter desolation of their oncerich and prosperous country, have long beenknown; and appeals tor assistance, which this Dept has no power to aflord. have been numerous and urzuut. Agent Dunn. of the Creek agency, writes. on the 20th September: “The tall Winds are upon us and the frostsof winter arenaa at hand. lily people, a majority of them, are nearly destitutepl clothing of any kind. I if earnestlycall your attention to them et; neglected. I shall not wish to remain here to Witness the consequent suffering.” As to the disloyal Uhoctawsand Chickasaws. Agent Coleman writes, up the 19th September: “Having been away from their homes, and in the rebel army, lor ncuqly 3 years, they now find themselves in a oonditionof extreme edtehsitcit, and actually suffering tor the necessaries and undoubtedly Wlll have to besup had by the Government until another year will ena lo them to shift for themselves.” On the 1st of October Agent Harlan writes, as to the loyal Cherokees: “Many have small surplus, and many have some, but not enough. lpo0r mtheeairnsboref abdu, yainndg many n. y poor mdowshpven one and is apparent that many will have to be fed until another crop shall be raised.” Of the Semine les, Agent Reynolds writes, on the 2d October: “lhcirtlocks and herds have been driven oif by the necessities of ene fmriieensd of, uthneti letohuenitrr country thise avarice of pretended uninhabited and their improvements completely destroyed and laid waste.” Of the Indians at the Witenlta agency Agent Gookins writes, on the 16th September: are generally very poor; except a portion of the haw nces and Caddocs, they are very poor and destitute. Among the Shawnee: isal o proportion of widows and orphan children who have no means whatever of sustaining themselves.” On the 10thof October, Superintendent Sells writes: “I Visited the temporary agenciesof the Cherokees, Creeks. Choctaws and Chickasaws and upon my return to Kansas visited the temporary Seminole agency, and found the Indians alike destitute everywhere.” Of the loyal Cherokees:" Their country is one vastscene of dosolptiou; houses burned, treasury robbed. fences and iculturnl implements destroyed cattle stolen and their former fields overgrown with weeds; and now they return to their homes a tteran exile of cars, destitute of almost everything to common ife anew, except personal energy and they appeu with just expectationsto the Government for aid and support. They want subsistenceuntil they can ram enough to subsist themselves. To secure that end, theymust have axesto build housesand fences;they must have plows and bees to cultivate their lands they must have stock, seed, 820 and I apprehend that a great and magnanimous government like ours will not permit this unfortunate people to go unclad during t o inelcmency of the winter months now upproaching.” 0t the loyal Creeks, (about 6,000) whose loyalty cost them exile and untold misery, he says: “During their exile in Kansas they lost all their property, including houses, iences. agricultural implements and stoek.” “This portion of the Greeks have returned to theib desolated homes, and now appeal to the Government for aid in clothing, farming implements and seeds.” or the disloyal Creeks: " hcy too appeal to the Government for aid: they say they are destitute of clothing, the means of subsistence, ricultural implements. $o.; that they have no oatt e and but few PQDIOSr about one to every ten men1ndno meanswith which to purchase more.” Of the ref ee Ohoetawl and Chiehuawu. (about 2000. who were being fed by agentColeman: "They insist t can: of Pu!“ chain; cloth. El 2:33" u" toal immmnupiurcmm Decembeiagfif unless supplied by the ceedingly Government. They are exanxious to resume their agricultural pursuits. iiiiil to enable them to do so they must be provided With agricultural implement amd seeds.” Of trheefu Quesahaawvse. Been eencain. sK. aannislaSaswmneocsstp, hfctshaeystim“Tehdeusre ing the war, but now they are vnllm to return to their former homes, whit or they wi e remov durintlus month or the 1st of next. T eg, in common with all other loyal Indians, have had their homes depolatod, and they a pool for aid in clothing and farming implements. the yhave been lubsls during the whole period of their crilo, and must continue to be until they can raise a crop, when they ought to be able to subsist themselves.” Of the Witchita and other atlilieted bands: “These Indians are poor desperately poor and unless “13 are fed by the Government the must starve or ste, and they may steal and yet not able to prevent starvation among the helilixlcsw some nnndehi drop. If they should be driven to the necessity of plundering for subsistence murders may be expected to follow in the wake of robbery and consequent strife, bloodshed, and war to exterminate these poor, dependent, and helpless Indians who have been von to their extremity from sheer suffering.” It was with these statements before mo. statements which, from personal observation while in the Indian country. i knew to be true, that in my annual report. I set forth the destitution of these ndians and tllicii dependeuce upon the Government for food and cormg. F roin sources outside of the cflcers of this Dept like information has beenreceived, and similar appeals made. Major General Reynolds, on October 12. transmits a petition of the southern Cherokees dated September 27 stating that “they are in every destitute condition, for the want of subsistence.” " I “ They must stay where they are and have no subsistence and no means of getting any for months to come, ter, unless they adruerifntgably l tyhoeuirne Government wthineir guardian and protector.” General Hunt remarks in warding this to General Reynolds " In the condition of these people it is importunt that the should not be driven by anger to o redations out e property of the Chickasaw: and hootaws. especially at sthitiys t from reconatrnibdu General Rtheeyinro slduspspaoyrst: “eneees is apparent and hllmllnlty dlcibted that their sufferingsbe allevi ated without delay.” To meet these urgent: pools, to relieve all this suffering, the Dept asnot one cent of funds, and cannot have until Congress acts. The estimate of Superintendent Sells may seem large, but the necessities are rent. To [o 19. 070 loyal Indians for 6 months e asks for 852“, which is at the rate of 15 cents per day for each Indian; to feed11. 700Indians lately disloyal, for 6 months. he asks for 0312. 940 which is at the rate of ten cents ier day: and to clothe all these, and lflll others, whm have subsistence, but no clothing. he asks for $451, 780w. hich is at the rate of 14 del lars for each Indian. His estimate foolsup $1, 185, 331 and I think not lessthan CIJXDMI) will suffioe. Very respectfully, your obedient servant. I D. N. OOQLIjlY, Gmnmwowner. Hon. Janus HARLAN, SecyInterior.