BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, January 7, 1890.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I herewith inclose a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, in relation to the death of George Pauls, a German subject, at Wilmington, N.C., May 8, 1886, and the claim of his widow for compensation on that account.  In view of the statements made by the Secretary of State, I earnestly recommend that an appropriation of $5,000 be made in behalf of Mrs. Pauls.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, January 13, 1890.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State of the 13th instant, recommending that the necessary means be provided to erect suitable buildings on the grounds so generously presented in the year 1884 to this Government for the use of its legation at Bangkok by His Majesty the King of Siam.

I commend the matter to the favorable consideration of Congress.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, January 16, 1890.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, in relation to the claim of the Government of Sweden and Norway, under the treaty between the United States and that Government of July 4, 1827, for the benefit of the lower rate of tonnage dues under the shipping acts of 1884 and 1886.

I recommend the immediate adoption by Congress of the necessary legislation to enable this Government to apply in the case of Sweden and Norway the same rule in respect to the levying of tonnage dues under the treaty of 1827 as was claimed and secured by this Government under the same instrument in 1828.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 20, 1890.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith a letter of Professor T.C.  Mendenhall, chairman of a committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and president of that association, and also the memorial prepared by said committee, relating to the preservation of the forests upon the public domain.

I very earnestly recommend that adequate legislation may be provided to the end that the rapid and needless destruction of our great forest areas may be prevented.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, January 20, 1890.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of War, relating to the condition and needs of the band of Apache Indians now held at Mount Vernon Barracks and at Governors Island.  The reports of General Crook and Lieutenant Howard, which accompany the letter of the Secretary, show that some of these Indians have rendered good service to the Government in the pursuit and capture of the murderous band that followed Natchez and Geronimo.  It is a reproach that they should not in our treatment of them be distinguished from the cruel and bloody members of the tribe now confined with them.