I commend these suggestions and hope they will receive the prompt consideration of Congress.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, July 14, 1890.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of State, inclosing the recommendation of the International American Conference with reference to the adoption by the American Republics of a uniform code of international law, to which your attention is respectfully directed.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, July 14, 1890.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of State, inclosing the recommendations of the International American Conference, recently in session at this capital, concerning a uniform system of port dues and consular fees to be adopted by the several American Republics, to which I invite your attention.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 15, 1890.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of State, inclosing a resolution adopted by the International American Conference for the erection of a memorial tablet in the diplomatic chamber of the Department of State to commemorate the meeting of that body.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 15, 1890.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith, for your information, certain reports on the subject of extradition adopted by the International American Conference at its recent sessions in this city.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 15, 1890.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit two agreements concluded by the commission appointed under section 14 of the act of March 2, 1889, commonly known as the Cherokee Commission, with the Citizen band of Pottawatomie Indians and the band of Absentee Shawnees, respectively, for the cession of certain lands to the United States.

Letters from the Secretary of the Interior, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and the Assistant Attorney-General for the Department of the Interior relating to the same matter are also submitted.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 17, 1890.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

The act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, provides, among other things, that the President shall appoint three competent sanitary engineers to examine and report upon the system of sewerage existing in the District of Columbia, together with such suggestions and recommendations as may to them seem necessary and desirable for the modification and extension of the same, which report was to be transmitted to Congress by the President at its next session.