U.S.  GRANT.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 24, 1872.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

In compliance with section 2 of the act approved July 11, 1870, entitled “An act making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year ending June 30, 1871, and for other purposes,” I have the honor to transmit herewith the report of D.B.R.  Keim, agent to examine consular affairs.

U.S.  GRANT.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 28, 1872.

To the House of Representatives:

In further answer to the resolution of the 14th instant of the House of Representatives, wherein information in regard to commerce between the United States and certain British colonial possessions is requested, I transmit a report from the Postmaster-General and the document by which it was accompanied.

U.S.  GRANT.

WASHINGTON, May 28, 1872.

To the House of Representatives:

In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 7th instant, requesting copies of correspondence in regard to an extradition treaty with Belgium, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents by which it was accompanied.

U.S.  GRANT.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 31, 1872.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

I have the honor to respectfully call the attention of Congress to an act approved July 14, 1870, directing the Secretary of War to place at the disposal of the President certain bronze ordnance, to aid in the erection of an equestrian statue of the late General John A. Rawlins, and to the facts that no appropriation of money to pay for the statue is made by the resolution and no artist is named or party designated to whom the ordnance is to be delivered.  In view of the ambiguity of the statute, I would recommend that Congress signify what action is desired as to the selection of the artist, and that the necessary sum required for the erection of the monument be appropriated.  A board of officers should also be named to designate the location of the monument.

U.S.  GRANT.

VETO MESSAGES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 28, 1872.

To the House of Representatives:

I herewith return, for the further consideration of Congress, without my approval, House bill No. 1550, “An act for the relief of the estate of Dr. John F. Hanks,” for the reason that the records of the Treasury Department show that the current moneys taken by Colonel S.B.  Holabird from the Louisiana State Bank of New Orleans in the month of August, 1862, were accounted for by that officer to the Treasury Department, and the names of the depositors given, and that the name of Dr. John F. Hanks does not appear among them.