Under the proposed amendment which I have had read at the Clerks desk these duties are to be performed by officers of the Army. Those officers are now on pay and their pay is not increased. and therefore to a large extent this amendment which I have offered is retrenchment upon existing law. As regards the provision about naturalization. I understand that the expenses connected with the naturalization of Indians provided for in this auendment are to be paid by the parties asking naturalization. And as to the courtmartial to try the parties for violation of the duties imposed upoi them by the law. courtsmartial exist now. and I do not understand that they cost any more than the annual salaries of officers composing the courtmartial. If the gentleman from Massachusetts be right in saying that that bill as it passed the House was not retrenchment. those of us who voted for it voted for it under a grievous mistake. because we were informedand so believedby the gentlemen both of the Military Committee and of the Indian Comittee.that it reduced the expenditures of the Government a very large amount.
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