HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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HOUSE or REPRESENTATIVES.

 June. 9.-The bill from the Senate. for mounting and equipping a part of the army of the United States, being under consideration, in Committee of the Whole,

 Mir. Scpier said that he entirely cor. cured in the opinion that corps of mounted volunteers would be infinitely preferable to regulars. What were the garrison troops? They consisted gen. erally of the refuse of society, collect ed in the cities and seaport towns Many of them broken down with years and inhrmities; noEe of them use to ride, nor in any wise fit for the service to be assigned them. These troops can move with case and rapidlty. Such service required woodsman, and called for men accustomed to travel through the woods, and who knew how to support themselves uIon their wa, Gentlemenought to remember that they couldnot be carrying aboutsupplies from one part of the woods and swamps to anotherinbaggage wagons. Theseran- gers must live ina great degree by the use of their guns. They must be ac- customed to shoot deer and buffalo. Ot what use would be an old regular noun ted for the first time on horse, under such circumstances? As to the case which the gentleman from Rhode Isl and had put, that all the Indians were 10 be exterminated, and their diiiieul. ties at an end in six months, there was not much danger on that score. Discon- tent prevailed, and had long prevailed on the frontier. It was daily increas. ling. The friendly Indians and the hos. file Indians were already, at war, and tic causes of discontent would operate for years to come. There were, to the West of our boundary line, nations of Indians who had always owed the coun- Etry. The United States Government had gone on and placed our friendly In tdians upon the soil, and they coasum- ed the buffalo which the others consid- cred as their own; for, it must be re- membered, that these Indians regarded the buffalo in their hunting grounds with just the same feelings of property and ownership as we looked upon the stock in our pastures. And the result was state of feelings extremely hos tile 10 the new corners, and to the Government which had placed them there. As long as this state of things existed, there would be seeds of war ever ready to spring forth. Mir. s. con !sIdercd three years as period of en-