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1 H. Everett, Regulating the Indian Department: To Accompany Bills H. R. Nos. 488, 489, & 490 1 (1834)

handle is hein.amindian/regindp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 13d CONGRESS., Rep. No. 474. Ho. or Rare. Iat Session. REGULATING THE INDIAN DEPARTMENT. [To accompany bills H. R. Nos. 488, 489, & 490.) MAY 20, 1884. Mr. H. EVERETT, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, made the fol- lowing REPORT: The Cnnmittee on Indian .ffairs, to which was submitted so much of the President's message as relates to Indian affairs. fc., submit the Jollow- ing report, to accompany the bills by them reported, entitled, A. bill to provide for the organization of the Department of IndianAffairs. A bill to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to pre- serve peace on the frontiers. And, . bill to provide for the establiskment of the Western Territory, and for the security and protection of the emigrant and other Indian tribes therein. The various subjects submitted to the committee, during the present -session, have forced upon their consideration the present state of our In- dian affairs, in its three principal relations-the organization of (he depart- ment; the regulations of trade and intercourse; and the obligations of the United States to the emigrant tribes. These relations, though subjects of different bills, are intimately connected. They are parts of a system; and of a system which is, itself, also, intimately acquainted with the general legislation of the country. They have, therefore, deemed it proper to pre- sent, in the same report, their views on the subjects embraced in the seve- ral bills. The committee are aware of the intrinsic difficulties of the subject-of providing a system of laws and of administration, simple and economical* and, at the same time, efficient and liberal-that shall be suited to the va- rious conditions a-nd relations of those for whose benefit it is intended ; and that shall, with a due regard to the rights of our own citizens, meet the just expectations of the country in the fulfilment of its proper and assumed ob. ligations to the Indian tribes. Yet, so manifestly defective and inadequate is our present system, that an immediate revision seems to be imperiously demanded. What is now proposed is only an approximation to a perfect system. Much is necessarily left for the present to Executive discretion, and still more to future legislation. The Indian country, to which the bills reported refer, will include all the territory of the United States west of the Mississippi, not within Louisiana, [Gales & Seaton, print.)

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