Mr. BIDWELL. I move to insert between lines 1422 and 1423 the following: For the purpose of enabling the SecyInterior to purchase, the improvements and claims of settlers invation, Round valley, for an Indian reser in the State of California, the following sum Qr so much thereof as may be necessary, namely, 100,00op:rovided, that the secyInterior shall deem it for the public interest to.]". possession of the whole of saidpurchasecan bemadtehfeorsaid valley and that the a reasonablevaluation. I wish to explain that amendment. Ot is necessary that the Government shall secure before the lands are all taken up in California a sufficient quantity of land to enable them to maintain the Indians who will be required to be removed to a reservation. The state of things is different in California from what it is in any other State or Territory. We have no tribes there that make treaties; and they are placed upon reservations. It is therefore incumbent upon the Government to reserve lands upon which they can be placed. This Valley is peculiarly adapted for that purpose. It is admitted by all to be the best, and perhaps the only place in northern California wherethe Indians can be properly taken care of. I feel the more anxious about this, because I know the people of that portion of the State are depending upon me to see that this question is properly adjusted; and that the settlers who occupy a portion of this valley should be purchased out, so that it may be used for the purposes of an Indian reservation. I refer only to those settlers who have settled in good faith and have improvements on their i.i. It is not designed to disturb the Indians upon any of the reservations in California, but simply to provide a place where Indians may be en as soon as it is found necessary to removethem to a reservation. I believe that the claims of those bona fide settlers in the valley who have improvements and would have a right to be paid can be purchased for about 75 or 80,000 dollars; but it will take a certain amount to ascertain the valuation of their improvements, to make the proofs, &c. It will certainly be necessary to provide some place of this sort, and if delay occurs and years roll on what can now be purchased for $100,000 may cost the government 2 or 300,000 dollars. All the reports I have seen in reference to this matter agree that the Government ought to have possession of this entire valley and ought to induce the settlers there to give it up for that purpose, for there is no place so suitable for an Indian reservation. I hope, therefore, that my amendment will be adopted.