R.B.  HAYES.

[Footnote 25:  See pp. 547-548.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 26, 1879.

To the Senate of the United States: 

In response to a resolution of the Senate of the 14th instant,
I transmit herewith a communication[26] from the Secretary of the
Interior and accompanying papers.

R.B.  HAYES.

[Footnote 26:  Relating to lands in the Indian Territory acquired by the treaties of 1866.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 5, 1879.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith the “proceedings and report” of the board of officers convened by Special Orders, No. 78, Headquarters of the Army, Washington, April 12, 1878, in the case of Fitz John Porter.  The report of the board was made in March last, but the official record of the proceedings did not reach me until the 3d instant.

I have given to this report such examination as satisfies me that I ought to lay the proceedings and conclusions of the board before Congress.  As I am without power, in the absence of legislation, to act upon the recommendations of the report further than by submitting the same to Congress, the proceedings and conclusions of the board are transmitted for the information of Congress and such action as in your wisdom shall seem expedient and just.

R.B.  HAYES.

WASHINGTON, June 13, 1879.

To the House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith, in compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 29th ultimo, a report of the Secretary of State relative to the steps taken by this Government to promote the establishment of an interoceanic canal across or near the Isthmus of Darien.

R.B.  HAYES.

WASHINGTON, June 23, 1879.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit herewith to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State, in response to a resolution of that body of the 20th instant, calling for the proceedings and accompanying papers of the International Silver Conference held in Paris in 1878.

R.B.  HAYES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 30, 1879.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

The bill making provision for the payment of the fees of United States marshals and their general deputies, which I have this day returned to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, with my objections,[27] having upon its reconsideration by that body failed to become a law, I respectfully call your attention to the immediate necessity of making some adequate provision for the due and efficient execution by the marshals and deputy marshals of the United States of the constant and important duties enjoined upon them by the existing laws.  All appropriations to provide for the performance of these indispensable duties expire to-day.