The subject is commended to the consideration of Congress.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 24, 1882.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with draft of a bill authorizing the sale of certain pine timber cut upon the Menomonee Reservation in Wisconsin, together with the accompanying papers noted in said communication.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 26, 1882.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a communication from the Secretary of War, dated the 23d instant, and accompanying copies of letters from the Adjutant-General, Inspector-General, and Quartermaster-General of the Army, recommending the amendment of section 3 of the act approved May 15, 1872, entitled "An act to establish the pay of the enlisted men of the Army," so as to require a settlement of the clothing accounts of enlisted men at every bimonthly muster for pay.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.