of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a communication
of the 5th instant from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting the
agreement concluded by and between the commissioners for the United
States and the Cherokee Nation of Indians of the Indian Territory, for
the cession of certain lands and for other purposes.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, March 18, 1892_.

_To the Senate_:

I herewith transmit, in answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 3d
ultimo, a report from the Acting Secretary of State of the 17th instant,
transmitting information relative to and his opinion as to the purchase
of the unpublished correspondence and manuscripts of President James
Monroe.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 24, 1892_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith a communication from the Board of Commissioners of
the District of Columbia, accompanied by a letter from the chairman of
the executive committee organized by the citizens of Washington for the
reception and entertainment of the Twenty-sixth Annual Encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic, which is to be held in Washington during
September next. An appeal is made for an appropriation by Congress of
$100,000, one-half to be paid out of the District revenues, to aid in
defraying the expenses attending this reception.

The event is one of very high and, as I believe, of national interest,
and the attendance of the surviving Union soldiers will, I do not doubt,
be larger than at any annual encampment that has ever been held.
The public authorities of the cities or States, or both, in which
the encampments have been held have, I believe, usually appropriated
liberally to make the occasions worthy and the entertainment hospitable.
The parade of the survivors of our great armies upon Pennsylvania avenue
will bring vividly back to us those joyful and momentous days when the
great victorious armies of the East and of the West marched through the
streets of Washington in high parade and were received by our citizens
with joyful acclaim. It seems to me that it will be highly appropriate
for Congress suitably to aid in making this demonstration impressive and
in extending to those soldiers whose lives a beneficent Providence has
prolonged an opportunity to see in the security and peace, development
and prosperity, which now so happily pervade the national capital