I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior of the 3d instant, with accompanying papers, submitting a draft of a bill for the relief of the Nez Percé Indians in the Territory of Idaho and of the allied tribes residing on the Grande Ronde Indian Reservation, in the State of Oregon. The subject is presented for the consideration of the Congress. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 17, 1883_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives:_ I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior of the 4th instant, submitting, with accompanying papers, draft of a bill to accept and ratify certain agreements made with the Sioux Indians and to grant a right of way to the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company through the Sioux Reservation in Dakota. The matter is presented for the consideration of the Congress. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 17, 1883_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives:_ I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a letter from the Secretary of War, dated December 13 instant, inclosing one from the Surgeon-General of the Army submitting a special estimate for funds in the sum of $200,000 for the erection in this city of a suitable fireproof building to contain the records, library, and museum of the Medical Department of the Army, together with preliminary plans for said building and copies of reports, etc., in relation to the subject. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 17, 1883_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives:_ I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a communication from the Secretary of the Navy, dated the 10th instant, inclosing a letter from the Surgeon-General of the Navy respecting the advisability of providing for representation on the part of the United States in any international convention that may be organized for the purpose of establishing uniform standards of measure of color perception and acuteness of vision. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 17, 1883_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives:_ I transmit herewith a communication of the 3d instant from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting, with accompanying papers, a draft of a bill for the payment of the value of certain improvements made by certain settlers on the Round Valley Indian Reservation, in the State of California, as appraised under the act approved March 3, 1873. The subject is presented for the consideration of the Congress. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 17, 1883_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives:_ I transmit herewith a communication of the 12th instant from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting a report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of December 8, 1883, and accompanying papers, on the subject of the "Old Settler" or "Western" Cherokees. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 17, 1883_.