132, House of Representatives, Forty-ninth Congress, first session,
communicated on the 22d instant.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _April 1, 1886_.
_To the House of Representatives_:
In response to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 24th
of March, relative to the employment of substitutes in the Department of
State, I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State on the
subject.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _April 1, 1886_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:
I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of the Interior and the
accompanying report, submitted by the governor of Alaska in compliance
with section 5 of the act of May 17, 1884, entitled "An act providing a
civil government for Alaska."
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _April 1, 1886_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:
I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State, in relation
to the claim of the representatives of the late Hon. James Crooks, a
British subject, against this Government for the seizure of the schooner
_Lord Nelson_ in 1812.
The matter is commended to the favorable consideration of Congress.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _April 6, 1886_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:
I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress with a view to
appropriate legislation in the premises, a report of the Secretary of
State, with certain correspondence touching the treaty right of Chinese
subjects other than laborers "to go and come of their own free will and
accord,"
In my annual message of the 8th of December last I said:
In the application of the acts lately passed to execute the treaty of
1880, restrictive of the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United
States, individual cases of hardship have occurred beyond the power of
the Executive to remedy, and calling for judicial determination.
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