Mr. Gltl MES. I understand that the proposition is to add to the lands that are alrea y devoted to the uses of the Winnebago Indians, and which embrace several million acres of land, some 34 sections, or about a township, for which we are to appropriate some 60,000 dollars., I am going to vote against that proposition, and I will state the reasonwhy. When I 1st knew anything about the Win nebago Indians they were, as the Senfrom Minnesota has said, situated in Wisconsin. The Government bought out their reservation there a purchase made for the benefit of their traders and Indian agents and persons connected with them and sent them over into Iowa. After they had been in Iowa is certain number of years. the Government bought them out ain, the principal part of the money goin into the hands of the men whowere connect or associated with the Indians, their agents, traders, blacksmiths, and other parties. After remaining there a few years they were bought out again, and sent into Minnesota and there they have sold out their lands. realizing. as the Senfrom Minnesota has stated, about half a million dollars, and have been sent over into Dakota, where they had set a art to them several million acres of land. ext year, or the year after next, when the pockets of the gentlemen who are connected with these Indians shall have been nearly exhausted of their money, there will be strenuous efforts made to induce us to make an appropriation to enter into nego tiations again With these Indians to remove them to some other Territory. There are only 1400 of these Indians altogether. You have already assigned to them several million acres, and why do you propose to add 34 sections more, and to buy out white settlers, men who have gone there to make bona improvements, and have established their homes and their farms for the purpose of taking their land and setting it aside for the benefitof these Indians, that they may establish barbarism where civilization now exists? But it is said the land assigned to these Indians is not reductive; that the cannot sustain thenise ves. Sir, they will not sustain themselves, send them where you may; you cannot make them produce anything; you cannot make n riculturists of them. I suspect the Senfrom Minnesotawill so inform you, and he has lived in their neighborhood. he hm treated with them, he has been Geieriior over them, and he knows something about them. I suspect thathe can tell you that all they need and all they will cultivate during anyone year will be 5 or 6 acres of bottom land, where they will raise a little squaw corn, and 5 or 6 acres of land with a running stream, where they can oceasionall fish is all the land they want.