Mr. KASSON. I do not, and I shall now proceed to give what authority I have for stating that the gentleman is greatly in error in that statement. I find in i. report made by the joint special committee which went over the plains to examine into Indian affairs this statement: OFFICE CoMMIssARY GENERAI, of SUBs1stronCE, WASHINGTONCITY, December28, 1865. SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt oof your communication of the instant, and in respectfully inform you that the expense of subsisting the Navajoes and Apaches at Bosque redondo reservationfrom March 1, 1864, to October 1, 1865(, 18months,)was about$1, 114, 98710. have the honor to be, ve; E'g?o your obedientservant, E. SHIRAS, AsstCommissaryGeneralSubsistence. Hon. J. R. Doolittle, Chairman ofJtCom to InvestigateIndian Affairs, U.S. Senate. That shows that for a period of a year and a half, so far from the expenditure being at the rate of $1,500,000 a year, the expenditure for the whole of 18 months was, in round numbers, only $1, 100,000 for the subsistence of the Indians on the Bosque Redondo reservation. Sir, these Navajoes Indians had for years and years, not the Present generation alone, but the generation 1. them, been making war continually on the whites. In order to stop it the general in command of that military dept employed a very good assist ant, who knew the habits of these Indians. They occupied fastnesses in the canons, where they could not be successfully pursued. There are no more inaccessible fastnesses in NewMexico than those which these bands occupied. The general called to his aid Kit Car son, and through his genius and tact, aided by the troops, they have been able to collect from time to time about 9,000 men, women, and children of this tribe and removing them to the Bosque Redondo reservation. They have been collecting them for the past 2 or 3 years. They have made these Indians work upon the reservation. They have irrigated it by digging ditches and canals through it. They have got it under cultivation to a considerable extent. All these expenses have been extraordinary; but at last they have got them to a point now where they think they can be safely turned over to the civil management, instead of guarding them by a large number of troops, compelling them to work, and keeping them from committing out rages as they have done hitherto. Consequently this year the appropriation is only for 100,000. I make this statement not only to correct errors in previous statements made on this floor, but also to answer the question put to me yesterday by the Gentfrom Pennsylvania, [Mr. Scofield] Now, sir, so much for the Bosque Redondo business; so much for the 1000s of Indians taken captive in war with great difficulty and brought to a condition of semi civilization by the military.