The subject has been
made quite a familiar one by Congressional discussion. This is now
supplemented in a valuable manner by the facts presented in the reports
herewith submitted.
The public interest urges prompt and efficient action.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 23, 1888_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:
I transmit herewith the first report of the board of control created by
the act of Congress approved August 4, 1886 (24 U.S. Statutes at Large,
p. 252), for the management of an industrial home in the Territory of
Utah, containing a statement of the action of the board in establishing
the home and an account of expenditures from the appropriation made for
that purpose in the act above mentioned.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, January 30, 1888_.
_To the Senate_:
I transmit herewith, in response to the resolution of the Senate of the
21st of December last, a report from the Secretary of State, in relation
to Midway Island.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, February 7, 1888_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit, with a view to its ratification, a declaration, signed
December 1, 1886, and March 23, 1887, for Germany, by the delegates of
the powers signatories of the convention of March 14, 1884, for the
protection of submarine cables, defining the sense of articles 2 and 4
of the said convention.
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