CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 5, 1885.
To the House of Representatives:
I transmit herewith, with a recommendation for its favorable consideration, a communication from the Secretary of State, in which he urges the adoption of measures to secure the consul at Buenos Ayres against loss through the dropping of his salary at the last session of Congress.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 5, 1885.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit herewith a communication of the 2d instant from the Secretary of the Interior, inclosing certain papers in relation to the present condition of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians in the Indian Territory, and recommending that some provision of law be enacted for disarming those and other Indians when such action may be found necessary for their advancement in civilized pursuits, and that means be provided for compensating the Indians for the weapons so taken from or surrendered by them.
The subject is commended to the favorable consideration and action of the Congress.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.