GRANT'S TOMB. Seldom have Shakespeare's lines, "The good (which men do) is oft interrea with their bones," been disproved better than in the construction of the mausoleum which contains the last mortal remains of Ulysses S. and Julia Dent Grant. The tomb is on Riverside Drive, New York, where it commands a comprehensive view of that magnificent boulevard; and it is viewed every year by thousands of visitors. It was constructed at a cost of $500,000, most of which was secured by popular subscription. Over the doorway are inscribed the immortal words which Grant wrote under date of May 29, 1868, to the President of the Republican National Convention, giving his views of the policy to guide the Republic in the arduous days of Reconstruction-"LET US HAVE PEACE." EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 22, 1884. To the House of Representatives: I transmit herewith, in response to the resolution of the House dated January 11, 1883, a letter, dated the 21st instant, from the Secretary of War, together with a report submitted to him by the Chief of Engineers, embodying the information, so far as the same can be furnished from the records of his office, and a statement prepared in the Treasury Department, respecting the expenditures for rivers and harbors, called for by the said resolution. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 28, 1884. To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit to Congress a communication from the Secretary of War, in relation to the necessity of an immediate appropriation of not less than $42,000 to enable the engineer in charge to make next autumn the explosion required for the removal of Flood Rock, in the East River, New York. The importance of the work is well known, and as it appears that without a speedy appropriation a delay of a year must follow, accompanied by large expenses to protect from injury the work already done, I commend the subject to the early and favorable consideration of Congress. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. To the Senate of the United States: EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, January 30, 1884. In further response to the resolution of the Senate of the 8th instant, calling for the correspondence on file upon the subject of discriminating duties upon commerce between the United States and Cuba and Puerto Rico, I transmit certain papers additional to the papers which accompanied the report sent to you on the 15th instant. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 31, 1884. To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a communication of the 29th instant from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting, with accompanying papers, a report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs upon the subject of the right of way of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company through the Lake Traverse Indian Reservation, in Dakota. The subject is commended to the consideration of the Congress. 156 CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 31, 1884. To the House of Representatives of the United States: I transmit herewith, in response to the resolutions of the House of Representatives, the following report of the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, relative to the restrictions upon the importation of American hog products into Germany and France. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 6, 1884. To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a communication, under date of the 2d instant, from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting the last annual report of the Government directors of the Union Pacific Railway Company. The report accompanying the Secretary's communication has been sent to the House of Representatives. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. To the House of Representatives: EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, February 7, 1884. I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State, in response to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 16th ultimo, respecting the arrest and imprisonment of John E. Wheelock in Venezuela in 1879. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. To the House of Representatives: EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, February 7, 1884. I transmit herewith, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 15th instant [ultimo], a report of the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, in relation to the reported arrest at Lodz, in Russian Poland, of Reinhardt Wagner, a citizen of the United States. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. To the Senate of the United States: WASHINGTON, February 7, 1884. I transmit herewith to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to its ratification, an agreement concerning trade-marks between the United States and Italy, signed June 1, 1882, provided the terms thereof commend themselves to the Senate. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 11, 1884. To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit a communication, under date of the 8th instant, addressed to me by the Secretary of the Navy, covering a report of Professor Simon Newcomb, United States Navy, on the subject of recent improvements in astronomical observatories, instruments, and methods of observations, as noted during his visit to the principal observatories of Europe in the year 1883, made in pursuance of orders of the Navy Department. The request of the Secretary is commended to the consideration of Congress. To the Senate of the United States: CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, February 12, 1884. I transmit herewith, for the consideration of the Senate in connection with the commercial convention of January 20, 1883, between the United States and Mexico, now pending before the Senate, a protocol of an agreement, signed on the 11th instant by the Secretary of State and the representative of Mexico at this capital, explaining and correcting an error of translation found in the Spanish text of said convention. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 13, 1884. To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a communication of the 8th ultimo from the Secretary of the Interior, and the accompanying papers, relating to the establishment of the boundary line between the United States and the State of Texas. The matter is presented for the consideration of the Congress. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 13, 1884. To the Senate of the United States: In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of February 6, 1884, directing "that the President be requested, if in his judgment not incompatible with the public interests, to communicate to the Senate the record of the proceedings, testimony, and findings of the court of inquiry in relation to the events connected with the loss of the steamer Proteus in the Arctic Ocean," I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of the record, etc., called for in said resolution, together with the letter of the Secretary of War, dated the 12th instant, submitting the same to me. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. |