To the Senate of the United States:
I herewith lay before the Senate, for the consideration and action of that body in connection with a treaty of December 4, 1868, with the Seneca Nation of Indians, now pending, amendments to said treaty proposed at a council of said Indians held at their council house on the Cattaraugus Reservation, in New York, on the 26th ultimo.
A letter of the Secretary of the Interior, of the 3d instant, accompanies the papers.
U. S. GRANT.