The reports of the heads of Departments, which will be submitted,
contain full and explicit information touching the transaction, of
the business intrusted to them and such recommendations relating to
legislation in the public interest as they deem advisable. I ask for
these reports and recommendations the deliberate examination and action
of the legislative branch of the Government.
There are other subjects not embraced in the departmental reports
demanding legislative consideration, and which I should be glad to
submit. Some of them, however, have been earnestly presented in previous
messages, and as to them I beg leave to repeat prior recommendations.
As the law makes no provision for any report from the Department of
State, a brief history of the transactions of that important Department,
together with other matters which it may hereafter be deemed essential
to commend to the attention of the Congress, may furnish the occasion
for a future communication.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
SPECIAL MESSAGES.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, December 14, 1887_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit herewith, with a view to its ratification, a final protocol,
signed at Paris on the 7th day of July, 1887, by the plenipotentiaries
of the United States and of the other powers parties to the convention
of March 14, 1884, for the protection of submarine cables, fixing the
1st day of May, 1888, as the date on which the said convention of March
14, 1884, shall take effect, provided that those of the contracting
Governments that have not adopted the measures provided for by article
12 of the said convention shall have conformed to that stipulation.
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