uary 14, 1893_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith a special report of the Commissioner of Labor
relating to compulsory insurance of workingmen in Germany and other
countries.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 14, 1893_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith a communication of the 13th instant from the
Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of reports of Lieutenants
Brown, Gurovits, and Suplee, United States Army, who were charged
with the duty of inspecting the Navajo country, so that the Interior
Department could be advised as to the practicability of restraining the
Navajoes within their present reservations and of furnishing irrigation
and water for their flocks, together with report of the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs upon the matter with draft of an item of appropriation
to carry the same into effect.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, February 15, 1893_.

_To the Senate_:

I transmit herewith, with a view to its ratification, a treaty of
annexation concluded on the 14th day of February, 1893, between John W.
Foster, Secretary of State, who was duly empowered to act in that behalf
on the part of the United States, and Lorin A. Thurston, W.R. Castle,
W.C. Wilder, C.L. Carter, and Joseph Marsden, the commissioners on the
part of the Government of the Hawaiian Islands. The provisional treaty,
it will be observed, does not attempt to deal in detail with the
questions that grow out of the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands to the
United States. The commissioners representing the Hawaiian Government
have consented to leave to the future and to the just and benevolent
purposes of the United States the adjustment of all such questions.

I do not deem it necessary to discuss at any length the conditions which
have resulted in this decisive action. It has been the policy of the
Administration not only to respect but to encourage the continuance of
an independent government in the Hawaiian Islands so long as it afforded
suitable guaranties for the protection of life and property and
maintained a stability and strength that gave adequate security against
the domination of any other power. The moral support of this Government
has continually manifested itself in the most friendly diplomatic
relations and in many acts of courtesy to the Hawaiian rulers.

The overthrow of the monarchy was not in any way pro