and naval representatives of the United States in the Hawaiian Islands since the 4th day of March, 1881, touching the matters specified in the resolution. It has seemed convenient to include in the present communication to the Senate copies of the diplomatic correspondence concerning the political condition of Hawaii, prepared for transmission to the House of Representatives in response to a later resolution passed by that body on the 13th instant. To the House of Representatives: GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, December 18, 1893. In compliance with a resolution passed by your honorable body on the 13th instant, I hereby transmit a report of the Secretary of State, with copies of the instructions given to Mr. Albert S. Willis, the representative of the United States now in the Hawaiian Islands, and also the correspondence since the 4th day of March, 1889, concerning the relations of this Government to those islands. In making this communication I have withheld only a dispatch from the former minister to Hawaii, numbered 70, under date of October 8, 1892, and a dispatch from the present minister, numbered 3, under date of November 16, 1893, because in my opinion the publication of these two papers would be incompatible with the public interest. GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 4, 1894. To the Senate of the United States: I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State, submitted in compliance with the resolution of October 17 last, in the matter of the claim of certain persons against the Government of Spain for illegal arrest off the coast of Yucatan in the year 1850, and subsequent imprisonment. GROVER CLEVELAND. To the Congress: EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 13, 1894. I transmit herewith copies of all dispatches from our minister at Hawaii relating in any way to political affairs in that country, except such as have been heretofore laid before the Congress. I also transmit a copy of the last instructions sent to our minister, dated January 12, 1894, being the only instructions to him not already sent to the Congress. In transmitting certain correspondence with my message dated December 18, 1893, I withheld a dispatch from our present minister, numbered 3 i and dated November 16, 1893, and also a dispatch from our former minister, numbered 70 and dated October 8, 1892. Inasmuch as the contents of the dispatch of November 16, 1893, are referred to in the dispatches of a more recent date, now sent to Congress, and inasmuch as there seems no longer to be sufficient reason for withholding said dispatch, a copy of the same is herewith submitted. The dispatch numbered 70 and dated October 8, 1892, above referred to, is still withheld for the reason that such a course still appears to be justifiable and proper. To the Congress: GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 20, 1894. I transmit herewith dispatches received yesterday from our minister at Hawaii, with certain correspondence which accompanied the same, including a most extraordinary letter, dated December 27, 1893, signed by Sanford B. Dole, minister of foreign affairs of the Provisional Government, addressed to our minister, Mr. Willis, and delivered to him a number of hours after the arrival at Honolulu of a copy of my message to Congress on the Hawaiian question, with copies of instructions given to our minister. To the Congress: GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 22, 1894. I transmit herewith copies of dispatches received from our minister to Hawaii after the arrival of those copies which accompanied my message of the 20th instant. I also inclose, for the information of Congress, copies of reports and a copy of an order just received by the Secretary of the Navy from Rear-Admiral Irwin, commanding our naval forces at Honolulu. GROVER CLEVELAND. To the Congress: EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 2, 1894. I transmit a communication from the Secretary of State, accompanying a dispatch received a few days ago from our minister at Hawaii. To the Congress: GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, February 12, 1894. I transmit herewith two dispatches received a few days ago from our minister at Hawaii, and a reply to one of them from the Secretary of State, in which a correct version is given of an interview which occurred November 14, 1893, between the Secretary of State and Mr. Thurston, representing the Provisional Government at Washington. GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 16, 1894. To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith, for the information of Congress, a communication from the Secretary of State, covering the report of the Director of the Bureau of the American Republics for the year 1893. GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 19, 1894. To the House of Representatives: I herewith transmit copies of certain dispatches recently received from our minister at Honolulu. To the Senate: GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 19, 1894. On the evening of the 16th instant I received a copy of a resolution passed by the Senate, requesting the transmission to that body of all reports and dispatches from our minister at Hawaii, and especially a certain letter written to him by Mr. Dole, President of the Provisional Government. On the same day I received from the State Department a copy of a dispatch from Minister Willis, accompanied by various exhibits. not able to send them to the Senate on that day. The Senate adjourned that afternoon until to-day, and thus prevented the submission until now of these papers. The next day after the receipt of the Senate resolution, and on the 17th instant, other dispatches were received from Mr. Willis at the State Department. They were copied with all possible haste, and are now submitted at the first meeting of the Senate since their receipt. They include the letter mentioned in the Senate resolution and the answer of Minister Willis to the same. Since the 18th day of December last, when I submitted to the "broader authority and discretion of the Congress" all matters connected with our relations with Hawaii, I have with the utmost promptness transmitted to the Congress all dispatches and reports relative to the subject, and I am not aware of any dispatches or documents in the remotest way con nected with these relations which have come to the possession of the State Department or the Executive and been withheld from the Senate. GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, March 7, 1894. To the Senate of the United States: I transmit herewith a report submitted by the Secretary of State in response to the resolution of the Senate dated January 23, 1894, requesting communication of correspondence exchanged between the Government of the United States and the Governments of Colombia, Venezuela, and Hayti. GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 7, 1894. To the Congress: I transmit herewith copies of certain dispatches lately received from our minister at Hawaii, together with copies of the inclosures which accompanied such dispatches. GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 8, 1894. 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 the 1st instant, making inquiry respecting the present condition of the Virginius indemnity fund. GROVER CLEVELAND. To the Senate: EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D. C., March 14, 1894. I herewith transmit a report of the Secretary of State of the 14th instant, concerning the several inquiries in the resolution of the Senate addressed to him under date of the 9th instant. To the Senate: GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, March 19, 1894. I transmit herewith, with a view to its ratification, a convention concluded at this capital on the 17th instant between the United States and China concerning the subject of emigration between those two countries. GROVER CLEVELAND. To the Sencte: EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, March 19, 1894. I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, concerning the landing of British troops at Bluefields, Nicaragua, in answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 7th instant on that subject. GROVER CLEVELAND. *Relating to the coined silver money and the products of India, Russia, and the Argentine Republic. To the Congress: EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 19, 1894. I transmit herewith a copy of a dispatch received from our minister at Hawaii, together with copies of the inclosures which accompanied said dispatch. To the Senate: GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, April 3, 1894. I transmit herewith report from the Secretary of State, inclosing the final report of the agent of the United States before the Paris Tribunal, also the protocols thus far received and certain other papers relating to that arbitration. GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, April 13, 1894. To the Congress: I transmit herewith copies of certain dispatches from the United States minister at Honolulu, received by the Secretary of State since my message of March 19, 1894. GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, April 21, 1894. To the Congress: I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of State, covering a dispatch from the United States minister at Honolulu and reply thereto. GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D. C., May 1, 1894. To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith the ninth annual report of the Commissioner of Labor. This report relates entirely to building and loan associations in the United States. GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, May 9, 1894. To the Senate of the United States: I transmit herewith, in response to the resolution of the Senate of April 6, 1894, a report of the Secretary of State, containing the requested information as to the present condition of affairs in the Samoan Islands. with copies of the correspondence in relation thereto, including that with the Governments of Great Britain and Germany. GROVER CLEVELAND. |