If it be true that these are public lands, the declaration that they are so by enactment is entirely unnecessary;

I am constrained to interpose an objection to a measure which proposes to suspend general and wholesome laws for the purpose of granting what appears to me to be an undeserved gratuity.

I transmit herewith a communication of the 5th instant from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting, with accompanying papers, a draft of a bill, prepared in the Office of Indian Affairs, 'for the relief of the Omaha tribe of Indians in the State of Nebraska.'

To the Senate and House of Representatives:I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, the report of the National Board of Health for the year 1885.

I transmit herewith a communication of the 27th ultimo from the Secretary of the Interior.

Race prejudice is the chief factor in originating these disturbances.

I have forborne addressing the Senate upon the subject.

I am not responsible to the Senate, and I am unwilling to submit my actions and official conduct to them for judgment.

I consider them in no proper sense as upon the files of the Department.

I do not suppose that 'the public offices of the United States' are regulated or controlled in their relations to either House of Congress by the fact that they were 'created by laws enacted by themselves.'

I believe the power to remove or suspend such officials is vested in the President alone by the Constitution.