without dishonor.  No choice is left to me but to enforce with vigor all laws intended to secure to the citizen his constitutional rights and to recommend that the inadequacies of such laws be promptly remedied.  If to promote with zeal and ready interest every project for the development of its material interests, its rivers, harbors, mines, and factories, and the intelligence, peace, and security under the law of its communities and its homes is not accepted as sufficient evidence of friendliness to any State or section, I can not add connivance at election practices that not only disturb local results, but rob the electors of other States and sections of their most priceless political rights.

The preparation of the general appropriation bills should be conducted with the greatest care and the closest scrutiny of expenditures.  Appropriations should be adequate to the needs of the public service, but they should be absolutely free from prodigality.

I venture again to remind you that the brief time remaining for the consideration of the important legislation now awaiting your attention offers no margin for waste.  If the present duty is discharged with diligence, fidelity, and courage, the work of the Fifty-first Congress may be confidently submitted to the considerate judgment of the people.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

[Footnote 11:  See pp. 93-94.]

[Footnote 12:  See p. 49].

[Footnote 13:  See pp. 56-58.]

[Footnote 14:  See pp. 70-71.]

[Footnote 15:  See p. 56.]

SPECIAL MESSAGES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 4, 1890.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith a communication of the 3d instant from the Secretary of the Interior, accompanied by an agreement concluded by the Cherokee Commission with the Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes of Indians for the cession of certain lands and for other purposes.

The agreement is submitted for the consideration of Congress, as required by law.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 5, 1890.

To the House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith, in response to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 24th of September last, a report of the Secretary of State and accompanying correspondence, in relation to the killing of General J. Martine Barrundia by Guatemalan officers on board the Pacific mail steamer Acapulco in the port of San Jose, Guatemala, on the 28th of August last.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 17, 1890.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I herewith transmit a communication from the Secretary of State, in relation to a report upon the subject of cholera made by Dr. E.O.  Shakespeare pursuant to the act of Congress approved March 3, 1885.