This exhibit of the work of the Executive Departments is submitted to
Congress and to the public in the hope that there will be found in it
a due sense of responsibility and an earnest purpose to maintain the
national honor and to promote the happiness and prosperity of all our
people, and this brief exhibit of the growth and prosperity of the
country will give us a level from which to note the increase or
decadence that new legislative policies may bring to us. There is no
reason why the national influence, power, and prosperity should not
observe the same rates of increase that have characterized the past
thirty years. We carry the great impulse and increase of these years
into the future. There is no reason why in many lines of production we
should not surpass all other nations, as we have already done in some.
There are no near frontiers to our possible development. Retrogression
would be a crime.

BENJ. HARRISON.

[Footnote 31: See pp. 141-142, 152-155, 148-152, 281-283, 249-251,
258-260, 253-258, 263-265, 279-281, 283-284.]

[Footnote 32: See pp. 240-242.]

[Footnote 33: See pp. 290-292.]

[Footnote 34: See p. 301.]

[Footnote 35: See pp. 229-234.]

SPECIAL MESSAGES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 7, 1892_.

_To the Senate_:

In response to the resolution of the Senate of April 11, 1892,
requesting information in regard to the agreement between the United
States and Great Britain of 1817 concerning the naval forces to be
maintained by the two Governments on the Great Lakes, I transmit
herewith a report of the Secretary of State and accompanying papers,
giving all the information existing in that Department in regard to
the agreement in question.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 4, 1893_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a communication
of the 23d of December, 1892, from the Secretary of the Interior,
accompanied by an agreement concluded by and between the Cherokee
Commission and the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache tribes of Indians in the
Territory of Oklahoma, for the cession of certain lands and for other
purposes.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 4, 1893_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a communication
of the 23d of December, 1892, from the Secretary of the Interior,
accompanied by an agreement concluded b