was complete; his honors were full.  He had received from the Government the highest rank known to our military establishment and from the people unstinted gratitude and love.  No word of mine can add to his fame.  His death has followed in startling quickness that of the Admiral of the Navy; and it is a sad and notable incident that when the Department under which he served shall have put on the usual emblems of mourning four of the eight Executive Departments will be simultaneously draped in black, and one other has but today removed the crape from its walls.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 26, 1891.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State and accompanying documents, in relation to the execution of letters rogatory in foreign countries.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 26, 1891.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit herewith, in reply to the resolution of the Senate of the 9th instant, a report from the Secretary of State, accompanied by the papers relating to the commercial arrangement recently entered into with Brazil.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 3, 1891.

To the Senate: 

In accordance with the resolution of the Senate of this date, I return herewith Senate bill 1453, to provide for the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building thereon at Saginaw, in the State of Michigan.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

VETO MESSAGES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 24, 1890.

To the Senate: 

I return to the Senate, in which it originated, with my objections, the bill (No. 544) “to provide for the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building thereon at Bar Harbor, in the State of Maine.”  The statement of a few facts will show, I think, that the public needs do not justify the contemplated expenditure of $75,000 for the erection of a public building at Bar Harbor.  Only one public office, the post-office, is to be accommodated.  It appears from a report of the Postmaster-General that the rent paid by the United States for a room containing 875 square feet of floor space was in 1888 $300 and the expenditure for fuel and lights $60.  One clerk was employed in the office and no carriers.  The gross postal receipts for that year were $7,000.  Bar Harbor is almost wholly a summer resort.  The population of the town of Eden, of which Bar Harbor forms a part, as taken by the census enumerators, was less than 2,000.  During one quarter of the year this population is largely increased by summer residents and visitors, but for the other three quarters is not much above the census enumeration.  The postal receipts for 1890 by quarters show that for more than half the year the gross receipts of the post-office are about $8 per day.  The salary of a janitor for the new building would be more than twice the present cost to the Government of rent, fuel, and lights.  I can not believe that upon reconsideration the Congress will approve the contemplated expenditure.