To the Senate of the United States:
I transmit to the Senate, in answer to their resolution of the 12th instant, the accompanying report[8] from the Secretary of State.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
WASHINGTON, February 13, 1863.
Hon. GALUSHA A. GROW,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
SIR: I herewith communicate to the House of Representatives, in answer to their resolution of the 18th of December last, a report from the Secretary of the Interior, containing all the information in the possession of the Department respecting the causes of the recent outbreaks of the Indian tribes in the Northwest which has not heretofore been transmitted to Congress.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE, February 17, 1863.
To the Senate of the United States:
I transmit herewith, for the constitutional action of the Senate thereon, a treaty made and concluded on the 3d day of February, 1863, between W.W. Ross, commissioner on the part of the United States, and the chiefs and headmen of the Pottawatomie Nation of Indians of Kansas, which, it appears from the accompanying letter from the Secretary of the Interior of the 17th instant, is intended to be amendatory of the treaty concluded with said Indians on the 15th November, 1862.