United States_:

In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of this date, I return
herewith the bill (S. 903) entitled "An act for the erection of a public
building in Cedar Rapids, Iowa."

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 19, 1890_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I inclose herewith a draft of a bill submitted by the Secretary of the
Interior, providing for the survey and disposal of a tract of land
situated in the city of Monterey, Cal., known as the "Cuartel" lot.

The lot referred to is one of the tracts excluded from the survey of the
Pueblo lands of Monterey, Cal., by the decision of Acting Secretary of
the Interior Muldrow of October 4, 1887 (6 Land Decisions, p. 179), on
the ground that it was in a state of reservation for national purposes.

A communication from the Secretary of War to the Secretary of the
Interior, copy herewith, states that this lot has been occupied at
intervals by the War Department for military purposes, but as it is not
within the limits of any declared military reservation the act of July
5, 1884 (23 U.S. Statutes at Large, p. 103), providing for a transfer
to the Interior Department of abandoned military reservations, does not
apply.

The lot is no longer required for military purposes, and a willingness
is expressed by the War Department that the Department of the Interior
should assume control of it. A copy of the tracing, with notes, is
inclosed, showing an approximate survey and describing the situation
of the lot.

I also inclose a copy of a report of the Commissioner of the General
Land Office to the Secretary of the Interior, setting forth that under
the decision of Mr. Muldrow the tract of land known as the "Cuartel"
lot belongs to the United States by conquest and by treaty, and is in a
state of reservation for national purposes, and respectfully submitting
that Congress may continue its status as fixed by said decision or enact
appropriate laws providing for its disposition as public land.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 19, 1890_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith a report of the International American Conference,
recently in session at this capital, recommending the survey of a route
for an intercontinental line of railroad to connect the systems of North
America with those of the southern continent, and to be conducted under
the direction of a board of commissioners representing t