EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, May 21, 1886.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit herewith, for your consideration with a view to their ratification, the “convention concerning the international exchanges for official documents and literary publications” and the “convention for assuring the immediate exchange of the official journal as well as of the parliamentary annals and documents.”

The first was signed at Brussels on the 15th of March, 1886, by the plenipotentiaries of the United States, Belgium, Brazil, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Servia, and Switzerland.

The second was signed at the same place and on the same date by the plenipotentiaries of the above-named powers, with the exception of Switzerland.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 21, 1886.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I herewith transmit a report from the Secretary of State, dated the 19th instant, touching the necessity of legislation to carry into effect the provisions of Article II of the treaty between the United States and China of November 17, 1880, for the repression of the opium traffic, and recommend that appropriate legislation to fulfill that treaty promise of this Government be provided without further delay.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 28, 1886.

To the House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State, accompanying the report of consuls of the United States on the trade and commerce of foreign countries.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 1, 1886.

To the House of Representatives: 

In response to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 17th of March last, requesting the Secretary of State “to communicate to the House of Representatives, if not incompatible with the public interest, copies of recent correspondence and dispatches between the Secretary of State and the minister of the United States at The Hague touching the subject of taxation on petroleum in Holland and in the Dutch colonies, and that of the export therefrom of leaf tobacco to the United States,” with reference to my message to the House of Representatives of the 14th ultimo [April], I now transmit a further report of the Secretary of State on the subject.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 2, 1886.

To the House of Representatives: 

In compliance with the request of the House of Representatives of this date, I return herewith House bill No. 6391, entitled “An act to authorize the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railway Company to construct and operate a railway through the Indian Territory, and for other purposes.”

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 9, 1886.