EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, February 28, 1881_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I transmit herewith, in answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 20th ultimo, a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers.[45] R.B. HAYES. [Footnote 45: Correspondence relative to the sending to the United States by foreign governments of criminals, paupers, and insane persons.] EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 3, 1881_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I have the honor to inform the Senate that Hon. Benjamin Harrison, Senator elect from the State of Indiana, has resigned his office as a member of the Commission for the Improvement of the Mississippi River, and the same has been accepted to take effect March 3, 1881. R.B. HAYES. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 3, 1881_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I have the honor to inform the Senate that Hon. John Sherman, Senator elect from the State of Ohio, has resigned the position of Secretary of the Treasury, and that said resignation has been accepted to take effect at the close of the present day. R.B. HAYES. VETO MESSAGE. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 3, 1881_. _To the House of Representatives_: Having considered the bill entitled "An act to facilitate the refunding of the national debt," I am constrained to return it to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, with the following statement of my objections to its passage: The imperative necessity for prompt action and the pressure of public duties in this closing week of my term of office compel me to refrain from any attempt to make a full and satisfactory presentation of the objections to the bill. The importance of the passage at the present session of Congress of a suitable measure for the refunding of the national debt which is about to mature is generally recognized. It has been urged upon the attention of Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury and in my last annual message. If successfully accomplished, it will secure a large decrease in the annual interest payment of the nation, and I earnestly recommend, if the bill before me shall fail, that another measure for this purpose be adopted before the present Congress adjourns.