Pacific Railroad, should be declared,
and the business placed upon a basis more just to our people and to our
transportation companies.

If we continue the policy of supervising rates and requiring that they
shall be equal and reasonable upon the railroads of the United States,
we can not in fairness at the same time give these unusual facilities
for competition to Canadian roads that are free to pursue the practices
as to cut rates and favored rates that we condemn and punish if
practiced by our own railroads.

I regret that circumstances prevented an earlier examination by me of
these questions, but submit now these views in the hope that they may
lead to a revision of the laws upon a safer and juster basis.

I transmit herewith the correspondence between the Secretary of the
Treasury and the Attorney-General upon some phases of this question.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 6, 1893_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a communication
from the Secretary of the Interior, dated 4th instant, accompanied by an
agreement concluded by and between the Turtle Mountain Indians and the
commission appointed under the provisions of the Indian appropriation
act of July 13, 1892, to negotiate with the Turtle Mountain band of
Chippewa Indians in North Dakota for the cession and relinquishment to
the United States of whatever right or interest they have in and to any
and all lands in said State to which they claim title, and for their
removal to and settlement upon lands to be hereafter selected and
determined upon by the Secretary of the Interior upon the recommendation
of the proposed commissioners, subject to the approval of Congress.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, February 6, 1893_.

_To the Senate_:

I transmit herewith, as desired by the resolution of the Senate of the
4th instant, a report from the Secretary of State of the 6th instant,
with its accompanying correspondence, in relation to the draft of an
uncompleted treaty with Hawaii made in 1854.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., February 8, 1893_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith the eighth annual report of the Commissioner of
Labor. This report relates to industrial education in the United States
and foreign countries.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, D.C., Febr