Mr. GRINNELL. I move on page 42, after line 1,008t, to insert the following: Provided, That the band of Sacsand Foxes now in Tama county, Iowa, shall be paid prorata their portion of annuity so long as theyare peacefuland have oent of the Governor of Iowa to reside in that Mr. Chairman, this proviso I desire to explain, and trust it will appear so manifestly just as to meet with no opposition. The Indians to whom this will apply are a band called Nussguokas, of the Sacs and Foxes, numbering some 200, with their lodges, near the Iona river, and about 20 miles from my own residence. On their removal, near 20 years ago, to the reservation west of the Missouri river, a powerful band made war on them, and coming back to their old haunts declared that they would all be killed if they remained. Some ten years since, on their petition and that of their white neighbors to the State Legislature they being in the senatorial district which i happened to rePresent, I took up their cause, and without objection a law was passed permitting them to own land and reside in the State. Their just portion of the annuity of the Sacs and Foxes was denied them until last year, when it was granted by Secretary Harlan, and is only given now as a temporary allowance by the Present ComrIndAff." I see no good reason why it should not be rmanent. I know of no other band which as not been decimated in numbers and suf. fered by the vices of the whites. Where they are without money they are objects of our charities. To compel them to go to Kansas fo to settle them where they are not wanted, or to provoke the murderous spirit of the warriors from whom they once fled. As to their character, of which I am asked, I have never heard that they were thievish or quarrelsome. They may have no Logan among their “braves;” but with their prorata of the annuity which I ask schools may be established, more comfort brought to their wigwams, and it is to be hoped such a Christian civilization as will not require the romance of a Jefferson or Seba Smith to find heroes worthy to adorn the sad history of our Indian tribes, which, without a change of policy, will soon be as far beyond our reach as they now seem below our consideration.