uite unfavorable, and
the ability of the Territory itself to provide relief must be inadequate
during this year.

I am advised that there is an unexpended balance of about $45,000 of
the fund appropriated for the relief of the sufferers by flood upon the
Mississippi River and its tributaries, and I recommend that authority be
given to use this fund to meet the most urgent necessities of the poorer
people in Oklahoma. Steps have been taken to ascertain more particularly
the condition of the people throughout the Territory, and if a larger
relief should seem to be necessary the facts will be submitted to
Congress. If the fund to which I have referred should be made available
for relief in Oklahoma, care will be taken that so much of it as is
necessary to be expended shall be judiciously applied to the most worthy
and necessitous cases.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, August 15, 1890_.

_To the Senate_:

In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 26th of July,
1890, calling for all correspondence not already submitted to Congress
and now on file in the Department of State touching the efforts made
by this Government to secure the modification or repeal by the French
Government of its decree of 1881, prohibiting the importation into
France of American pork and kindred American products, I transmit
herewith a report from the Acting Secretary on the subject, with the
accompanying correspondence.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _September 3, 1890_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of State, which is
accompanied by three reports adopted by the conference of American
nations recently in session at Washington, relating to the subject of
international arbitration. The ratification of the treaties contemplated
by these reports will constitute one of the happiest and most hopeful
incidents in the history of the Western Hemisphere.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _October 1, 1890_.

_To the House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith, in answer to the resolution of the House of
Representatives of August 20, 1890, concerning the enforcement of
proscriptive edicts against the Jews in Russia, a report from the
Secretary of State upon the subject.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, October 1, 1890_.

_To the Senate_:

In response to the resolution of the Senate of September 17,