ing the limitations which
the act contains, is an enterprise to which the United States is so
far committed that Congress ought not, I think, to withhold just and
reasonable further support if the local corporation consents to proper
conditions.

Liberality on the part of the United States is due to the foreign
nations that have responded in a friendly way to the invitation of this
Government to participate in the exposition, and will, I am sure, meet
the approval of our people. The exposition will be one of the most
illustrious incidents in our civic history.

I transmit also certain resolutions adopted by representatives of the
National Guard of the various States appointed by the governors to
attend a convention which was held in Chicago on the 27th of October,
1891, with a view to consider the subject of holding a military
encampment at Chicago during the exposition.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 25, 1892_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith copy of a memorial of the Wichitas, Caddoes, and
affiliated tribes of Indians in Oklahoma Territory in the matter of
their claim to the lands they occupy, for consideration in connection
with the agreement concluded by and between the Cherokee Commission and
said Indians, and also with my communication of the 17th instant,[25]
relative to the act to pay the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians for certain
lands now occupied by the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians.

BENJ. HARRISON.

[Footnote 25: See pp. 229-234.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, March 8, 1892_.

_To the Senate_:

I herewith transmit, with a view to its ratification, a convention
signed at Washington the 29th of February, 1892, between the Governments
of the United States and Her Britannic Majesty, submitting to
arbitration the questions which have arisen between those Governments
concerning the jurisdictional rights of the United States in the waters
of the Bering Sea, and concerning also the preservation of the fur seal
in and habitually resorting to the said sea and the rights of the
citizens and subjects of either country as regards the taking of fur
seal in or habitually resorting to the said waters.

The correspondence not heretofore submitted to Congress in relation to
the Bering Sea matter is in course of preparation and will be
transmitted without delay.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 9, 1892_.

_To the Senate and House