In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 26th ultimo, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the papers[20] by which it was accompanied.

U.S.  GRANT.

[Footnote 20:  Dispatches of J. Somers Smith, commercial agent of the United States at San Domingo, relative to the imprisonment of Davis Hatch by the Dominican Government.]

WASHINGTON, May 21, 1870.

To the Senate of the United States:

I transmit to the Senate, in answer to their resolution of the 18th instant, calling for information relative to the passage of any English or Canadian steamer through the canal of Sault Ste. Marie, a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers.

U.S.  GRANT.

WASHINGTON, May 23, 1870.

To the Senate of the United States:

In response to your resolution of the 12th instant, requesting information “in relation to an organized band of persons at Cheyenne, in the Territory of Wyoming, or vicinity, the number and designs of such persons,” I transmit herewith the reports of the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Interior, to whom the resolution was referred.

U.S.  GRANT.

WASHINGTON, May 23, 1870.

To the House of Representatives:

I transmit to the House of Representatives, in answer to their resolution of the 5th instant, a report from the Secretary of State and its accompanying papers.[21]

U.S.  GRANT.

[Footnote 21:  Relating to the claims of United States citizens against Venezuela.]

WASHINGTON, May 26, 1870.

To the Senate of the United States:

I have the satisfaction of transmitting to the Senate, for consideration with a view to its ratification, a convention between the United States and Her Britannic Majesty, relative to naturalization, signed in London on the 13th instant.

The convention is substantially the same as the protocol on the subject signed by Mr. Reverdy Johnson and Lord Stanley on the 9th of October, 1868, and approved by the Senate on the 13th April, 1869.

If the instrument should go into effect, it will relieve the parties from a grievance which has hitherto been a cause of frequent annoyance and sometimes of dangerous irritation.

A copy of Mr. Motley’s dispatch on the subject and of the act of Parliament of May 12, 1870, are also transmitted.

U.S.  GRANT.

WASHINGTON, May 28, 1870.

To the Senate of the United States:

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 24th instant, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the document[22] by which it was accompanied.

U.S.  GRANT.

[Footnote 22:  Dispatch from Henry T. Blow, United States minister to Brazil, relative to the commercial interests of the United States with South America.]