I transmit herewith the correspondence called for by the resolution of the Senate of the 6th instant, relating to the conduct of Commander Reiter in connection with the arrest and killing of General Barrundia.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 13, 1891.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

The Admiral of the Navy, David Dixon Porter, died at his residence in the city of Washington this morning at 8.15 o’clock, in the seventy-eighth year of his age.  He entered the naval service as a midshipman February 2, 1829, and had been since continuously in service, having been made Admiral August 15, 1870.  He was the son of Commodore David Porter, one of the greatest of our naval commanders.  His service during the Civil War was conspicuously brilliant and successful, and his death ends a very high and honorable career.  His countrymen will sincerely mourn his loss while they cherish with grateful pride the memory of his deeds.  To officers of the Navy his life will continue to yield inspiration and encouragement.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D.C., February 14, 1891.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith the sixth annual report of the Commissioner of Labor.  This report relates to the cost of producing iron and steel and the materials of which iron is made in the United States and in Europe, and the earnings, the efficiency, and the cost of living of the men employed in such production.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 14, 1891.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

The death of William Tecumseh Sherman, which took place to-day at his residence in the city of New York, at 1 o’clock and 50 minutes p.m., is an event that will bring sorrow to the heart of every patriotic citizen.  No living American was so loved and venerated as he.  To look upon his face, to hear his name, was to have one’s love of country intensified.  He served his country, not for fame, not out of a sense of professional duty, but for love of the flag and of the beneficent civil institutions of which it was the emblem.  He was an ideal soldier, and shared to the fullest the esprit de corps of the Army; but he cherished the civil institutions organized under the Constitution, and was a soldier only that these might be perpetuated in undiminished usefulness and honor.  He was in nothing an imitator.

A profound student of military science and precedent, he drew from them principles and suggestions, and so adapted them to novel conditions that his campaigns will continue to be the profitable study of the military profession throughout the world.  His genial nature made him comrade to every soldier of the great Union Army.  No presence was so welcome and inspiring at the camp fire or commandery as his.  His career