GROVER CLEVELAND.
[Footnote 23: See p. 612.]
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 2, 1889_.
_To the Senate_:
On or about the 25th day of September, 1888, I received a copy of a
resolution adopted on that day by the Senate in executive session,
requesting the transmission to that body by the President of all
communications and correspondence (not heretofore sent to the Senate)
under his control on the subject of the proposed convention with China,
transmitted by him to the Senate by message dated 16th March, 1888,[24]
and on the subject of the reported failure of the Government of China to
finally agree to the same.
A few days after the copy of said resolution was received by me, and on
the 1st day of October, 1888, I sent a communication to the
Congress,[25] accompanying my approval of a bill prohibiting the return
of Chinese laborers to the United States, in which I supposed all the
information sought under the terms of the Senate resolution above
recited was fully supplied.
I beg to refer in this connection to Senate Executive Document No. 273,
first session of the Fiftieth Congress, and especially to page 3
thereof.
Believing the information contained in said document answered the
purposes of said Senate resolution, no separate and explicit answer was
made thereto.
But in my message of October 1, 1888, the tenor and purport of a cipher
dispatch from our minister in China to the Secretary of State, dated
September 21, 1888, was given instead of attempting to transmit a copy
of the same.
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