ine and report upon the system
of sewerage existing in the District of Columbia, together with such
suggestions and recommendations as may to them seem necessary and
desirable for the modification and extension of the same, which report
was to be transmitted to Congress by the President at its next session.

In pursuance of the authority thus conferred, on the 17th of August,
1889, I appointed Rudolph Hering, of New York, Samuel M. Gray, of Rhode
Island, and Frederick P. Stearns, of Massachusetts, to make this
examination and report.

The gentlemen named were believed to have such ability and experience as
sanitary engineers as to guarantee an intelligent and exhaustive study
of the problem submitted to them.

I transmit herewith their report, which has just been submitted to me,
for the consideration of Congress.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _July 23, 1890_.

_To the House of Representatives_:

In response to the resolution of the House of Representatives requesting
me, if in my judgment not incompatible with the public interest, to
furnish to the House the correspondence since March 4, 1889, between the
Government of the United States and the Government of Great Britain
touching the subjects in dispute in the Bering Sea, I transmit a letter
from the Secretary of State, which is accompanied by the correspondence
referred to in the resolution.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _July 29, 1890_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

The recent attempt to secure a charter from the State of North Dakota
for a lottery company, the pending effort to obtain from the State of
Louisiana a renewal of the charter of the Louisiana State Lottery, and
the establishment of one or more lottery companies at Mexican towns near
our border have served the good purpose of calling public attention to
an evil of vast proportions. If the baneful effects of the lotteries
were confined to the States that give the companies corporate powers
and a license to conduct the business, the citizens of other States,
being powerless to apply legal remedies, might clear themselves of
responsibility by the use of such moral agencies as were within their
reach. But the case is not so. The people of all the States are
debauched and defrauded. The vast sums of money offered to the States
for charters are drawn from the people of the United States, and the
General Government through its mail system is made the effectiv