Deeply impressed with the gravity of the responsibilities which have so
unexpectedly devolved upon me, it will be my constant purpose to
cooperate with you in such measures as will promote the glory of the
country and the prosperity of its people.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
SPECIAL MESSAGES.
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
_Washington, December 12, 1881_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit herewith, in response to the resolution of the Senate of the
17th of May last, a report of the Secretary of State, with accompanying
papers, touching the Geneva convention for the relief of the wounded in
war.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 15, 1881_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives:_
I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior,
with accompanying papers, in reference to the applications of the
Chicago, Texas and Mexican Central and the St. Louis and San Francisco
Railway companies for a right of way across the lands of the Choctaw
Nation in the Indian Territory for the building of a proposed railroad
and telegraph line.
The matter is commended to the careful attention of Congress.
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