ideration of the important legislation now awaiting your attention
offers no margin for waste. If the present duty is discharged with
diligence, fidelity, and courage, the work of the Fifty-first Congress
may be confidently submitted to the considerate judgment of the people.

BENJ. HARRISON.

[Footnote 11: See pp. 93-94.]

[Footnote 12: See p. 49].

[Footnote 13: See pp. 56-58.]

[Footnote 14: See pp. 70-71.]

[Footnote 15: See p. 56.]

SPECIAL MESSAGES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 4, 1890_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith a communication of the 3d instant from the Secretary
of the Interior, accompanied by an agreement concluded by the Cherokee
Commission with the Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes of Indians for the
cession of certain lands and for other purposes.

The agreement is submitted for the consideration of Congress, as
required by law.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 5, 1890_.

_To the House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith, in response to the resolution of the House of
Representatives of the 24th of September last, a report of the Secretary
of State and accompanying correspondence, in relation to the killing of
General J. Martine Barrundia by Guatemalan officers on board the Pacific
mail steamer _Acapulco_ in the port of San Jose, Guatemala, on the 28th
of August last.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 17, 1890_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I herewith transmit a communication from the Secretary of State, in
relation to a report upon the subject of cholera made by Dr. E.O.
Shakespeare pursuant to the act of Congress approved March 3, 1885.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 17, 1890_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of the Navy, accompanied
by a letter from the secretary of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, who transmits a memorial, addressed to the Government of the
United States, in relation to the late Captain John Ericsson.

The matter is presented for such action as the Congress may deem proper.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 17, 1890_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of War, accompanied by
a copy of a preliminary report of the board on gun factories and steel
forgings for high-power guns,