municated to Congress. He takes occasion to repeat what he said in his annual message, that it is highly important, if not indispensable to the success of any negotiation for the purchase, that the measure should receive the previous sanction of Congress.

This emphatic reiteration of the previous recommendation throws upon Congress the responsibility of failure if withheld. Indeed, the inference is sufficiently clear that, without some expression of opinion by Congress, the President will not feel justified in renewing negotiations. The committee beg leave to append hereto various tables concerning statistical details of matters treated of in this report. All which is respectfully submitted.

No. 1.-Commerce of the island of Cuba with foreign nations for the years 1852, 1853, and 1854, made up from the "general balances."

[From Ex. Doc. No. 107, first session Thirty-fourth Congress, Commercial Relations of the United States.]

No. 2.-Statement of the aggregate of revenue and expenditure of the island of

Deduct for sums paid as portions of the forfeitures under seizures...

Extraordinary expenses.

Section 5.-Executive department

Section 6.-Attentions (remittances) of the Peninsula.

Total

$3,026, 833. 69

9, 807, 878.87 1,069, 795. 44 16,719, 200.00

119, 285.94 595, 928.94

21, 338, 928. 88 12,972.88

21, 325, 956.00

712, 755.00 5,866, 538. 36 7,645, 145. 43 2,386, 634. 16

1, 190, 700.37 2, 115, 833. 12 1, 404, 059.00 21.321,665. 44

1 From this sum should be deducted $5,022,000, which figures among the expenditures of the exchequer under the government guaranty of prizes in the lotteries, and which is included in the sum of $7.645,145.45 set down as expended by that department. This leaves a net revenue from that source of $1,697,200, and a total net revenue of $16,105.96.

No. 3.-Comparative statement of the number of sea-going vessels entering the port of Habana for the years named.

No. 4.-Table of the total production of sugar, consumption, etc.

But the quantity of sugar from which the United States, England, Europe, and the Mediterranean is to be supplied reaches only 1,273,000 tons. Thus, for the 300,000,000 souls who are dependent on it, it gives but about 8 pounds per head, while the consumption in England is triple that quantity, and in the United States 20 pounds per head. The use of sugar in the world is rapidly increasing. In France it has doubled in thirty years. It has increased more than 50 per cent in England in fifteen years. In the Zollverein it has quadrupled. The following

table will show the imports and production of sugar in Great Britain, France, and the United States during many years:

Consumption of sugar in Great Britain, France, and the United States.

The production of beet-root sugar in France for four years was as follows:

The figures of 1857 are only to March 1, and exceed by 54,000,000 kilograms the product of last year. The production in the Zollverein in 1855 was as follows:

Giving a total of 19.188,402. The increase in the consumption is immense. In 1841 the total for the three countries above named was 420.000 tons. This has increased to 800,000 tons, or a quantity nearly doubled, and the supply has come from Louisiana and from beet roots. The former failed considerably in the last two years, and, as a consequence, nearly convulsed the world. The value of sugar in the open market, then, seems to depend upon the precarious crop of Louisiana, since, when that fails, the prices rise all over the world.-United States Economist.

No. 5.-Table of number of Chinese shipped from China from 1847 to March 23, 1858.

The following table, derived from a reliable source, exhibits the total number of vessels that have arrived at this port since 1847 with Asiatics, their flags, tonnage,

ACQUISITION OF CUBA.

number of Asiatics shipped and landed, number and percentage of deaths, etc., which, I think, will not be deemed uninteresting:

Percent

number Landed. Deaths.
shipped.

age of deaths.

13

13,545

6.744

29

21.275

10.791

9,205

1,586

144

5.003

2,773

2,463

310

111

6.037

3,655

3,154

501

131

2,038

1,779

1,489

290

111

1,049

1,021

28

3

2,484

1,314

812

502

560

249

236

13

470

221

179

42

202

155

231

From the foregoing it will be seen that the loss of life on the total number shipped actually amounts to 14 per cent; and whilst the number of deaths of those brought hither in Portuguese ships amounts to only 2 per cent, the number brought in American ships amounts to 12 per cent, in British ships to 14 per cent, and in French ships to 13 per cent, whilst in Peruvian ships the number of deaths amounts to 381 per cent.

No. 6.-Population of the West Indies, as stated in Colton's Atlas of the World, volume 1.

VIEWS OF THE MINORITY.

Mr. Seward, on the part of the minority of the Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the bill (S. 497) "making appropriation to facilitate the acquisition of the island of Cuba by negotiation," submitted their views in the form of a substitute for the original bill, as follows:

A BILL concerning the relations between the United States and Spain.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States, at the beginning of the next annual session of Congress, communicate to the Senate, if in his opinion not incompatible with the public interests, the condition of the relations which shall then be subsisting between the United States and Spain, and of any negotiations that may then be pending for the cession of Cuba to the United States, together with such statements of the condition of the Treasury, and also of the effective condition of the Army and the Navy of the United States, as may enable Congress to judge whether at that time it will be necessary to adopt any extraordinary measures to maintain the rights and promote the interests of the United States connected with or growing out of their relations to Spain.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President, if in his discretion he shall deem it necessary, in view of the condition of negotiations with Her Catholic Majesty which shall be pending during the next recess of Congress, may convene either the Senate or Congress in extraordinary session by proclamation.

February 18, 1859.

[Senate Report No. 379.]

Mr. Mason made the following report:

The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred the bill entitled "An act to allow to Edward K. Cooper and his assigns, being citizens of the United States, the exclusive right of occupying the island or key of Navassa, in the Caribbean Sea, for the purpose of obtaining and selling guano therefrom," have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report:

It is the object of the bill referred to this committee to declare, by act of Congress, the alleged title of Edward K. Cooper and his assigns, as citizens of the United States, to the exclusive right of occupying the island or key of Navassa, in the Caribbean Sea, for the purpose of obtaining and selling guano therefrom, pursuant to the provisions of "An act to authorize protection to be given to citizens of the United States who may discover deposits of guano," passed August 18, 1856.

Upon examination of that act, the committee are satisfied that it confers upon the President of the United States full authority, at his discretion, to give, by means of a possessory title (under the restraints and limitations contained in the act), to any citizen of the United States as a discoverer of deposits of guano on any island or islands