To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit herewith a communication of the 26th instant from the Secretary of the Interior, and accompanying item of appropriation, to enable the President to continue the negotiations authorized by sections 14 and 15 of the Indian appropriation act approved March 2, 1889, with the Cherokee Indians and with all other Indians owning or claiming lands west of the ninety-sixth degree of longitude in the Indian Territory, for the cession to the United States of all their title, claim, or interest of every kind or character in and to said lands, etc.
The matter is presented for the favorable action of Congress.
BENJ. HARRISON.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 2, 1890.
To the House of Representatives:
In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 29th ultimo, the Senate concurring, I return herewith the bill (H.R. 7345) entitled "An act authorizing and directing the Secretary of War to establish new harbor lines in Portage Lake, Houghton County, Mich."
BENJ. HARRISON.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 2, 1890.
To the Senate and House of Representatives: