communication of correspondence exchanged between the Government of the United States and the Governments of Colombia, Venezuela, and Hayti. GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 7, 1894. To the Congress: I transmit herewith copies of certain dispatches lately received from our minister at Hawaii, together with copies of the inclosures which accompanied such dispatches. GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 8, 1894. To the Senate of the United States: I transmit herewith a report furnished by the Secretary of State in response to a resolution of the Senate of the 1st instant, making inquiry respecting the present condition of the Virginius indemnity fund. GROVER CLEVELAND. To the Senate: EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D. C., March 14, 1894. I herewith transmit a report of the Secretary of State of the 14th instant, concerning the several inquiries in the resolution of the Senate addressed to him under date of the 9th instant. To the Senate: GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, March 19, 1894. I transmit herewith, with a view to its ratification, a convention concluded at this capital on the 17th instant between the United States and China concerning the subject of emigration between those two countries. GROVER CLEVELAND. To the Sencte: EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, March 19, 1894. I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, concerning the landing of British troops at Bluefields, Nicaragua, in answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 7th instant on that subject. GROVER CLEVELAND. * Relating to the coined silver money and the products of India, Russia, and the Argentine Republic. To the Congress: EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 19, 1894. I transmit herewith a copy of a dispatch received from our minister at Hawaii, together with copies of the inclosures which accompanied said dispatch. To the Senate: GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, April 3, 1894. I transmit herewith report from the Secretary of State, inclosing the final report of the agent of the United States before the Paris Tribunal, also the protocols thus far received and certain other papers relating to that arbitration. GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, April 13, 1894. To the Congress: I transmit herewith copies of certain dispatches from the United States minister at Honolulu, received by the Secretary of State since my message of March 19, 1894. GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, April 21, 1894. To the Congress: I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of State, covering a dispatch from the United States minister at Honolulu and reply thereto. GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D. C., May 1, 1894. To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith the ninth annual report of the Commissioner of Labor. This report relates entirely to building and loan associations in the United States. GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, May 9, 1894. To the Senate of the United States: I transmit herewith, in response to the resolution of the Senate of April 6, 1894, a report of the Secretary of State, containing the requested information as to the present condition of affairs in the Samoan Islands, with copies of the correspondence in relation thereto, including that with the Governments of Great Britain and Germany. GROVER CLEVELAND. To the Congress: EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, May 9, 1894. I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of State, in regard to recent dispatches from the United States minister at Honolulu, received since my message of April 21, 1894, and also a dispatch from the minister dated April 14, 1894. GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, May 29, 1894. To the Congress: I herewith transmit, having regard to my message of May 9, 1894, a communication from the Secretary of State, covering a dispatch from the United States minister at Honolulu. GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, June 20, 1894. To the Senate: I transmit herewith, in response to the resolution of the Senate of December 20, 1893, a report from the Acting Secretary of State, covering the desired copies of correspondence in the matter of the claim of Antonio Maximo Mora against Spain. To the Congress: GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, I herewith transmit a communication United States minister at Honolulu. Washington, June 23, 1894. covering dispatches from the GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 25, 1894. To the Senate and House of Representatives: The shocking intelligence has been received that the President of the French Republic met his death yesterday at the hands of an assassin. This terrible event which has overtaken a sister Republic can not fail to deeply arouse the sympathies of the American nation, while the violent termination of a career promising so much in aid of liberty and advanciug civilization should be mourned as an affliction to mankind. GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 29, 1894. To the Senate of the United States: Answering a resolution of your honorable body dated the 13th instant, I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State, with an *Relating to the probable retaliatory action of foreign governments for the proposed imposition by the United States of a duty on sugar. accompanying document, which contain all the information in my possession touching the matters embraced in said resolution. To the Senate: GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, July 9, 1894. I transmit herewith, in further response to the Senate resolution of April 6, 1894, a report from the Secretary of State, accompanied by copies of certain correspondence relating to Samoan affairs. GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 19, 1894. To the Senate of the United States: In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 18th instant, the House of Representatives concurring, I return herewith the bill (S. 1105) entitled "An act for the relief of Albert Redstone." To the Congress: GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, July 24, 1894. I herewith transmit a communication from the Secretary of State, covering a dispatch from the United States minister at Honolulu. GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D. C., July 27, 1894. To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith the seventh special report of the Commissioner of Labor. This report relates to what is generally known as the slums of cities, and has been prepared in accordance with a joint resolution approved July 20, 1892. To the Congress: GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, July 30, 1894. I herewith transmit a communication from the Secretary of State, co ering two dispatches from the United States minister at Honolulu. GROVER CLEVELAND. VETO MESSAGES. EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 17, 1894. To the House of Representatives: I return without my approval House bill No. 71, entitled "An act for the relief of purchasers of timber and stone lands under the act of June 3, 1878." This bill permits the proofs and affidavits which under present statutes parties desiring to acquire certain public lands are required to make before the registers and receivers of the land offices within which such lands are located to be made before any commissioner of the United States circuit court or before the judge or clerk of any court of records of the county or parish in which the lands are situated. A similar bill was passed by the Fifty-second Congress and was disapproved by the Commissioner of the General Land Office and the Secretary of the Interior. The successors of these officers oppose the present bill on the ground that in its operation it would open the door to fraud and to a perversion of the intentions of the Government in relation to the public lands. It is difficult, with the most scrupulous care, to guard the alienation of our public lands from fraud and illegal practices. It is perfectly plain, however, that the prospect of accomplishing this result is better under present laws, which require the necessary proofs to be made before land officers who are appointed for that purpose and who are under the control of the General Land Office and amenable to its regulations, than it would be by substituting other officers over whom the Land Office has no control. Certain rules and orders of the Land Office are now in force which regulate the taking of the necessary proofs and permit oral examinations by registers and receivers. These regulations are of the utmost importance if our land laws are to be justly and honestly administered. I fully concur in the objections made to this bill by the officers having charge of the public lands in the last Administration and by their successors who are now charged with that responsibility. I am convinced that such a relaxation of our existing land laws as is contemplated by the bill under consideration would not be in the interest of good administration. GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 20, 1894. To the House of Representatives: I hereby return without my approval House bill No. 3289, entitled "An act to authorize the New York and New Jersey Bridge Companies |