EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 4, 1888_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:
I transmit herewith a communication of the 24th ultimo from the
Secretary of the Interior, submitting, with accompanying papers, a draft
of a bill to accept and ratify an agreement made with the Sisseton and
Wahpeton Indians, and to grant a right of way for the Chicago, Milwaukee
and St. Paul Railway through the Lake Traverse Indian Reservation, in
Dakota.
The matter is presented for the consideration and action of Congress.