But it will probably be necessary some time to construct a similar work in the southwest pass.
During my first term in the House on the Committee on Education and Labor I had the important duty of investigating the conduct of the Freedman's Bureau and other charges made against General Oliver O.Howard.

I wrote nearly the whole of the report, all of it containing the arguments of the Committee, and the summing up of the evidence.

A few passages are by the Chairman, Mr.Arnell.

The Freedman's Bureau was established to aid the colored people who had been suddenly emancipated by President Lincoln's Proclamation, to attain a condition where they could get their living in comfort, and their children could be educated.

General Howard, a very eminent officer in the Civil War, afterward at the head of the Army, was a man singularly fitted for this duty.