commercial arrangements entered into with those countries; list of
import and export duties imposed by Brazil, Salvador, and the Dominican
Republic, and by Spain with respect to Cuba and Puerto Rico.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 10, 1892_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith, as required by law, a communication of the 6th
instant from the Secretary of the Interior, with the report of the
Puyallup Indian Commission and accompanying papers.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 16, 1892_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

There was passed by the last Congress "An act for the protection of the
lives of the miners in the Territories," which was approved by me on the
3d day of March, 1891. That no appropriation was made to enable me to
carry the act into effect resulted, I suppose, from the fact that it was
passed so late in the session. This law recognizes the necessity of a
responsible public inspection and supervision of the business of mining
in the interest of the miners, and is in line with the legislation of
most of the States.

The work of the miner has its unavoidable incidents of discomfort and
danger, and these should not be increased by the neglect of the owners
to provide every practicable safety appliance. Economies which involve
a sacrifice of human life are intolerable.

I transmit herewith memorials from several hundred miners working in the
coal mines in the Indian Territory, asking for the appointment of an
inspector under the act referred to. The recent frightful disaster at
Krebs, in that Territory, in which sixty-seven miners met a horrible
death, gives urgency to their appeal, and I recommend that a special
appropriation be at once made for the salaries and the necessary
expenses of the inspectors provided for in the law.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 17, 1892_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

The Indian appropriation bill which was approved March 3, 1891, contains
the following provision:

And the sum of $2,991,450 be, and the same is hereby, appropriated,
out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay
the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations of Indians for all the right, title,
interest, and claim which said nations of Indians may have in and to
certain lands now occupied by the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians under
Executive order, said lands lying south of