[Footnote 32:  See pp. 240-242.]

[Footnote 33:  See pp. 290-292.]

[Footnote 34:  See p. 301.]

[Footnote 35:  See pp. 229-234.]

SPECIAL MESSAGES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 7, 1892.

To the Senate: 

In response to the resolution of the Senate of April 11, 1892, requesting information in regard to the agreement between the United States and Great Britain of 1817 concerning the naval forces to be maintained by the two Governments on the Great Lakes, I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State and accompanying papers, giving all the information existing in that Department in regard to the agreement in question.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 4, 1893.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a communication of the 23d of December, 1892, from the Secretary of the Interior, accompanied by an agreement concluded by and between the Cherokee Commission and the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache tribes of Indians in the Territory of Oklahoma, for the cession of certain lands and for other purposes.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 4, 1893.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a communication of the 23d of December, 1892, from the Secretary of the Interior, accompanied by an agreement concluded by and between the Cherokee Commission and the Pawnee tribe of Indians in the Territory of Oklahoma, for the cession of certain lands and for other purposes.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, January 7, 1893.

To the Senate: 

In response to the resolution of the Senate of January 6, 1893, calling on the Secretary of State for information whether the provisions of Senate bill No. 3513, absolutely suspending immigration for the period of one year, are in conflict with any treaties now existing between the United States and any foreign countries, I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, giving the information called for.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, January 11, 1893.

To the Senate: 

In response to the resolutions of the Senate dated December 20, 1892, and January 5, 1893, respectively, I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State of the 10th instant, accompanying the reports of Mr. Walter T. Griffin, United States commercial agent at Limoges, France, and Mr. W.H.  Edwards, United States consul-general at Berlin, Germany, which were called for by the aforesaid resolutions.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 13, 1893.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: