U.S.  GRANT.

WASHINGTON, December 8, 1874.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate, for consideration with a view to ratification, a convention between the United States of America and the Ottoman Empire, relative to the naturalization of citizens and subjects of the two countries, signed by their respective plenipotentiaries at Constantinople on the 11th of August last.  A copy of the correspondence which accompanied the convention on the subject is herewith transmitted.

U.S.  GRANT.

WASHINGTON, December 8, 1874.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith a report, dated the 8th instant, with accompanying papers,[88] from the Secretary of State, in compliance with the requirements of section 208 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

U.S.  GRANT.

[Footnote 88:  Report of fees collected, etc., by consular officers of the United States for 1873, list of consular officers, and tariff of consular fees prescribed by the President September 1, 1874.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 22, 1874.

The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: 

I have the honor to transmit herewith, for the information of Congress, a memorial[89] forwarded to me by a convention of colored citizens assembled in the city of Montgomery, Ala., on the 2d of this month.

U.S.  GRANT.

[Footnote 89:  Asking all the rights of citizenship.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 5, 1875.

To the Senate of the United States: 

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 21st December last, requesting the return of its resolution of the 17th of the same month, advising and consenting to the appointment of J.C.S.  Colby to be consul of the United States at Chin-Kiang, I have the honor to state that Mr. Colby’s commission was signed on the 17th day of December, and upon inquiry at the Department of State it was found that it had been forwarded to him by mail before the receipt of the resolution of recall.

U.S.  GRANT.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 12, 1875.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

In accordance with the requirements of the joint resolution approved March 25, 1874, authorizing an inquiry into and report upon the causes of epidemic cholera, I have the honor to transmit herewith reports upon the subject from the Secretaries of the Treasury and War Departments.

U.S.  GRANT.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 13, 1875.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I have the honor to make the following answer to a Senate resolution of the 8th instant, asking for information as to any interference by any military officer or any part of the Army of the United States with the organization or proceedings of the general assembly of the State of Louisiana, or either branch thereof; and also inquiring in regard to the existence of armed organizations in that State hostile to the government thereof and intent on overturning such government by force.