nd "An act granting a pension to
the widow of Adam Shrake."

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 27, 1890_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of State, inclosing
a report adopted by the International American Conference, recently
in session at this capital, recommending the establishment of an
international American bank, with its principal offices in the city of
New York and branches in the commercial centers of the several other
American Republics.

The advantages of such an institution to the merchants of the United
States engaged in trade with Central and South America and the purposes
intended to be accomplished are fully set forth in the letter of the
Secretary of State and the accompanying report. It is not proposed to
involve the United States in any financial responsibility, but only to
give to the proposed bank a corporate franchise, and to promote public
confidence by requiring that its condition and transactions shall be
submitted to a scrutiny similar to that which is now exercised over our
domestic banking system.

The subject is submitted for the consideration of Congress in the belief
that it will be found possible to promote the end desired by legislation
so guarded as to avoid all just criticism.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 28, 1890_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith a communication of the 26th instant from the
Secretary of the Interior, and accompanying item of appropriation, to
enable the President to continue the negotiations authorized by sections
14 and 15 of the Indian appropriation act approved March 2, 1889, with
the Cherokee Indians and with all other Indians owning or claiming lands
west of the ninety-sixth degree of longitude in the Indian Territory,
for the cession to the United States of all their title, claim, or
interest of every kind or character in and to said lands, etc.

The matter is presented for the favorable action of Congress.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _June 2, 1890_.

_To the House of Representatives_:

In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the
29th ultimo, the Senate concurring, I return herewith the bill (H.R.
7345) entitled "An act authorizing and directing the Secretary of War
to establish new harbor lines in Portage Lake, Houghton County, Mich."

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION,