the expenditure of any money upon the claim, or even proof
that the claimant was the discoverer of the deposits.

The bill requires "good faith," but it will be next to impossible for
the officers of the Interior Department to show actual knowledge on the
part of the claimant of the lines of the reservation. The case will
practically be as to this matter in the hands of the claimant. But why
should good faith at the moment of attempting the entry, without any
requirement of expenditure, and followed, it may be, within twenty-four
hours by actual notice that he was upon a reservation, give an advantage
in the sale of these lands that may represent a very large sum of money?

In the second place, I do not think it wise, without notice even to the
Indians, to segregate these lands from their reservation. It is true, I
think, that they hold these lands by an Executive order, with a contract
right to take allotments upon them, and that the lands in question are
not likely to be sought as an allotment by any Indian. But the Indians
have been placed on this reservation and its boundaries explained to
them, and to take these lands in this manner is calculated to excite
their distrust and fears, and possibly to create serious trouble.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _June 20, 1890_.

_To the House of Representatives_:

I return without my approval the bill (H.R. 3934) "to authorize the
board of supervisors of Maricopa County, Ariz., to issue certain bonds
in aid of the construction of a certain railroad."

This bill proposes to confer authority upon the supervisors of the
county of Maricopa to issue county bonds at the rate of $4,000 per mile
in aid of a railroad to be constructed from Phoenix northwardly to the
county line, a distance estimated at 50 miles, but probably somewhat
longer. The bill seems to have passed the House of Representatives under
an entire misapprehension of its true scope and effect. In the brief
report submitted by the Committee on Territories it is said that "by the
terms of the bill the county receives _bonds_ in payment of the money
proposed to be advanced," and in the course of the debate the Delegate
from Arizona mistakenly stated in response to a request for information
that the bill proposed a loan by the county, in exchange for which it
was to receive the bonds of the railroad company. In fact, the bill does
not provide for a loan to be secured by bonds, but for a subscription of
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