The other of said dispatches is as follows: 

  WASHINGTON, September 18, 1888.

  DENBY,
    Minister, Peking: 

The bill has passed both Houses of Congress for total exclusion of Chinese and awaits President’s approval.  Public feeling on the Pacific Coast excited in favor of it, and situation is critical.  Impress upon Government of China necessity for instant decision in the interest of treaty relations and amity.

  BAYARD.

The answer of our minister at Peking to this dispatch, dated September 21, 1888, was yesterday sent to the Senate with the message to which this is a supplement.

The matters herein contained are now transmitted, to the end that they may, if deemed pertinent, be added to the response already made to the Senate resolution of inquiry, and with the intent that in any view of the subject the answer to said resolution may be full and complete.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

[Footnote 26:  See p. 627.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, January 7, 1889.

To the Senate: 

I transmit, with a view to its ratification, an agreement signed by the plenipotentiaries of the United States and Denmark on the 6th ultimo, submitting to arbitration the claim of Carlos Butterfield & Co. against the Government of Denmark for indemnity for the seizure and detention of the steamer Ben Franklin and the bark Catherine Augusta by the authorities of the island of St. Thomas, of the Danish West India Islands, in the years 1854 and 1855; for the refusal of the ordinary right to land cargo for the purpose of making repairs; for the injuries resulting from a shot fired into one of the vessels, and for other wrongs.  I also transmit a report from the Secretary of State inclosing the recent correspondence between the two Governments in regard to the claim.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 14, 1889.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

Whereas, by virtue of the provisions of the act of Congress approved June 22, 1860 (12 U.S.  Statutes at Large, p. 73), entitled “An act to carry into effect provisions of the treaties between the United States, China, Japan, Siam, Persia, and other countries giving certain judicial powers to ministers and consuls or other functionaries of the United States in those countries, and for other purposes,” Charles Denby, minister of the United States at Peking, has formally promulgated, under date of August 18, 1888, additional regulations governing the rendition of judgments by confession in the consular courts of the United States in China, the same having been previously assented to by all the consular officers of this Government in that Empire: 

Now, therefore, in accordance with section 4119 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, being the sixth section of the act above mentioned, and which directs that all such regulations shall be transmitted to the Secretary of State, “to be laid before Congress for revision,” I do herewith transmit to Congress a copy of Mr. Denby’s dispatch No. 754, of November 5, 1888, containing the regulations so decreed.