BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 5, 1891.

To the House of Representatives: 

In further response to the resolution of the House of Representatives requesting me, if in my judgment not incompatible with the public interest, to furnish to the House the correspondence since March 4, 1889, between the Government of the United States and the Government of Great Britain touching the subjects in dispute in the Bering Sea, I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of State, which is accompanied by the correspondence which has taken place since my message of July 23, 1890.[16]

BENJ.  HARRISON.

[Footnote 16:  See p. 80.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 10, 1891.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith a memorial of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma, asking an appropriation for the relief of the destitute people of that Territory.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 16, 1891.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith the report of the World’s Columbian Commission, with the accompanying papers.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 19, 1891.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith a communication of the 17th instant from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting the agreement entered into between the Crow Indians and the commission appointed to negotiate with them for the sale to the United States of the western portion of their reservation in Montana under the provisions of the act of September 25, 1890.

It is thought important by the Department that this matter receive the consideration of Congress during the present session.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 26, 1891.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith a letter of the Secretary of War, accompanied by the final report of the board on gun factories and steel forgings for high-power guns, and appendixes thereto.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 26, 1891.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith a letter of the Secretary of the Interior, accompanied by a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, who transmits a draft of a bill for compensating the Indians of the Crow Creek Reservation for the loss sustained by them by reason of their receiving less land per capita in their diminished reservations than is to be received by Indians occupying other diminished reservations.

The matter is presented for the early consideration of the Congress.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 31, 1891.