A perusal of the report herewith submitted will furnish information of
the progress which has been made during the year to which it relates in
the extension of the operations of this reform and in the improvement of
its methods and rules.
It is cause for congratulation that watchfulness and care and fidelity
to its purposes are all that are necessary to insure to the Government
and our people all the benefits which its inauguration promised.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, March 2, 1889_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit herewith, for the consideration of the Senate with a
view of giving its advice and consent to the ratification thereof, a
convention signed in Washington on March 1, 1889, by duly authorized
representatives of the United States and Mexico, providing for the
institution of an international commission to determine questions
between the United States and Mexico arising under the convention of
November 12, 1884, by reason of changes in the river bed of the Rio
Grande and the Colorado River when forming the boundary between the
two countries.
A report of the Secretary of State, with the accompanying correspondence
therein described, is also communicated for the information of the
Senate.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 2, 1889_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:
I herewith transmit a report of the Secretary of State and accompanying
documents, relative to the undetermined boundary line between Alaska and
British Columbia.
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