Letter of the Second Auditor of the Treasury, communicating copies of the accounts of disbursements or applications of moneys, goods, or effects, for the benefit of the Indians, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1856; with lists of the names of all persons to whom goods, moneys, or effects have been delivered within that year. January 6, 1857. -- Read, and ordered to lie on the table. January 16, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed

Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 26th of January, 1857, information as to "whether the public interest will be promoted by a survey of the Niagara River, or of any and what part of the same." February 4, 1857. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed

Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with resolutions of the Senate of December 23 and 30, 1856, certain information respecting the pay and emoluments of Lieutenant General Scott. February 2, 1857. -- Read, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. February 4, 1857. -- Ordered to be printed

Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 14th instant, papers relating to the claim of George Whitman. January 23, 1857. -- Read, and ordered to be printed

Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the 4th of August last, and the 9th of January, inst., information respecting the Aves or Bird Islands, and the interference of the Venezuelan government with the rights of American citizens collecting guano therefrom. January 20, 1857. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed

Report of the Secretary of War, communicating in obedience to law, statements showing the contracts made by that Department during the year 1856. January 31, 1857. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed

Message of the President of the United States, communicating the act of the Legislature of Tennessee, respecting the purchase of the "Hermitage," for the purpose of tendering it to the government of the United States, to be used as a site for a branch of the Military Academy at West Point. January 20, 1857. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed

Message of the President of the United States, respecting the restoration of the ship "Resolute" to the British government. January 20, 1857. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. Motion to print 2,000 additional copies referred to the Committee on Printing. February 6, 1857. -- Report in favor of printing the additional copies, and report agreed to

Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 15th instant, information respecting the amount of revenue in case of a reduction of the duties on imports. January 21, 1857. -- Read, referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed

Letter from the Treasurer of the United States, communicating copies of his accounts for the third and fourth quarters of the year 1855, and the first and second quarters of the year 1856. December 4, 1856. -- Read, and ordered to lie on the table. January 15, 1857. -- Ordered to be printed