Subject.

Washington City, necessity for a building for a post-office in. Letter
of the Postmaster-General
Water-power at Moline, Ill. Letter of the Secretary of War on the
subject of leasing the, to the Moline Water-Power Company.

Y.

Yadkin River, North Carolina, survey of the. Letter of the Secretary
of War

S. Ex.-II

The estimates of the appropriations needed, which were sent to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury at the opening of the last session.

MARCH 19, 1879.-Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed.

Fellow-citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives:

The failure of the last Congress to make the requisite appropriations for Legislative and judicial purposes, for the expenses of the several executive departments of the government, and for the support of the Army, has made it necessary to call a special session of the Forty-sixth Congress.

The estimates of the appropriations needed, which were sent to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury at the opening of the last session, are renewed, and are herewith transmitted to both the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Regretting the existence of the emergency which requires a special session of Congress at a time when it is the general judgment of the country that the public welfare will be best promoted by permanency in our legislation, and by peace and rest, I commend these few necessary measures to your considerate attention.

WASHINGTON, March 19, 1879.

RUTHERFORD B. HAYES.

LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE, AND JUDICIAL BILL.

Estimates of appropriations required to complete the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880.