herewith, for your consideration, a communication from
the Secretary of the Interior, dated the 18th instant, touching the
necessity for additional room for the clerical force of the Department
of the Interior.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 26, 1882_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives:_

I transmit herewith, for the information of Congress, the annual report
of the Government directors of the Union Pacific Railway to the
Secretary of the Interior for the year 1881.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 26, 1882_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives:_

I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior,
with draft of amendment to be inserted in the Indian appropriation bill,
to carry into effect the provisions of the fifth section of the act of
March 3, 1873, providing for the consolidation of funds belonging to the
Miami Indians of Kansas.

The matter is presented for the consideration of Congress.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, January 26, 1882_.

_To the House of Representatives:_

I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State, with
accompanying papers, furnished in response to a resolution of the House
of Representatives of the 24th instant, calling for correspondence
touching the efforts of this Government to bring about peace between
Chile and Peru and Bolivia, and touching claims against or contracts
respecting either of the belligerent Governments.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, January 26, 1882_.

_To the Senate of the United States:_

I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State and accompanying
papers, furnished in response to the resolution of the Senate of the
13th ultimo, calling for correspondence touching affairs in or between
Peru and Chile.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 27, 1882_.

_To the Senate of the United States:_

I transmit herewith, in further response to the Senate resolution of the
13th December, 1881, a report of the Secretary of State, embodying the
purport of a recent telegram from the special envoy of the United States
setting forth the conditions of peace presented by Chile.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

[A similar message was sent to the House of Representatives, in answer
to a resolution of that body of January 24, 1882.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 28, 1882_.

_To the Senate of the Unite