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.
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