bill has been drawn "providing for the removal and consolidation of certain Indians in the States of Oregon, Colorado,, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, and the Torritories of Washington and Dakota. A reduction of twenty-five reservatious and eleven agencies will thus be etfected.* ** There will be restorod to the public domain 17,642,455 acres of land." Ile says that "fnrther eonsolidations of like char- acter are not only possible, bnt expedient and advisable. *** There is a vast area of land in the Indian Territory not yet oc cupied."

With the same ludierous, complacent logic as before, he pro- ceeds to give as the reason for uprooting all these Indians from the homes where they and moving then again-for the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, or seventh time, as it may be-the fact tlhat, "among tlhe 1nost radical defccts of the poliey formerly pursned with the Indians, has been the frequent changes in their location which havo been made. * ** Permanent homes, sufficient aid to enable them to bnild houses, eultivate the soil, and to subsist them until they have harvested their first crops, wll wean them en tirely from their old methods of life, and in the course of a beginuing to thrive and take root, are few ycars enabl them to become entirely self-supporting. Among the more forciblo arguments which can be presented in conncction with this subject is the fact that the expenses atfending the removal and consolidation of the Indians, as here in proposed, will be more than met from the sale of lands va cated.* *Much of the land now owned by these Indians is valuable only for its timber, and may be sold at an valne for an amount far in excess of the pricc fixed by law, and yet leave a whose hands the lands will fal. ***I can scc no rcason why appraised largo margin of profit to the purchaser into the Government should not avail itself of these facts, and in effecting the consolidation of the Indians, and the opening of the lands for settlemont, scll the same for an amount suffieient