The attention of the Congress is especially called to the instructions
given to Admiral Kimberly dated on the 11th instant and the letter of
the Secretary of State to the German minister dated the 12th instant,
which will be found among the papers herewith submitted.
By means of the papers and documents heretofore submitted and those
which accompany this communication the precise situation of affairs in
Samoa is laid before the Congress, and such Executive action as has been
taken is fully exhibited.
The views of the Executive in respect of the just policy to be pursued
with regard to this group of islands, which lie in the direct highway of
a growing and important commerce between Australia and the United
States, have found expression in the correspondence and documents which
have thus been fully communicated to the Congress, and the subject in
its present stage is submitted to the wider discretion conferred by the
Constitution upon the legislative branch of the Government.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
[Footnote 27: See p. 612.]
[Footnote 28: See p. 800.]
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 15, 1889_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit herewith, in response to the resolution of the Senate of the
4th instant, a report of the Secretary of State, with accompanying
copies of correspondence, touching recent occurrences in the island of
Hayti, both as relates to the state of the Government there and to the
seizure and delivery up of the American vessel _Haytien Republic_.
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