GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 1, 1887.

To the House of Representatives of the United States: 

In response to the resolution of the House of Representatives adopted on the 22d ultimo, calling upon me for a “copy of the treaty or convention proposed to the Senate and ratified by that body between the United States and the Government of the Hawaiian Islands,” I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers.

It is proper to remark in this relation that no convention whatever has been “agreed to and ratified” by “the President and Senate,” as is recited in the preamble to the said resolution of the House of Representatives, but that the documents referred to, exhibiting the action of the Executive and the Senate, respectively, are communicated in compliance with the request of the resolution.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 8, 1887.

To the House of Representatives of the United States: 

I transmit herewith, in response to a resolution of the House of the 24th ultimo, a report of the Secretary of State, with accompanying copies of correspondence between the Governments of the United States and Great Britain concerning the rights of American fishermen in the waters of British North America, supplemental to the correspondence already communicated to Congress with my message of December 8, 1886.[14]

GROVER CLEVELAND.

[Footnote 14:  See pp. 529-530.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 10, 1887.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of State, accompanying reports by consular officers of the United States on the extent and character of the emigration from and immigration into their respective districts.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, February 14, 1887.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit herewith, with a view to its ratification, a treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, concluded October 2, 1886, in the harbor of Nukualofa, Tongatabu, between the United States of America and the King of Tonga.

I also transmit, for your information, a report from the Secretary of State, inclosing copies of the treaties of friendship concluded between the Kingdom of Tonga and Germany and Great Britain.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 14, 1887.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit herewith a report furnished by the Secretary of State in response to a resolution of the Senate of January 31 ultimo, calling for particulars of the investment and distribution of the indemnity received in 1875 from Spain, and known as the “Virginius fund.”

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 15, 1887.