plement the message yesterday sent to your honorable body
in response to a Senate executive resolution dated September 25, 1888,
asking the transmission of certain communications and correspondence on
the subject of the recent proposed convention with China and the
reported failure of the Government of China to finally agree to the
same, by adding to said response two telegrams I omitted therefrom,
which were sent in cipher by the Secretary of State to our minister at
Peking, and which may be considered by the Senate relevant to the
subject of its inquiry.

One of said dispatches is as follows:

WASHINGTON, _September 4, 1888_.

DENBY,
_Minister, Peking_:

Rejection of treaty is reported here. What information have you?

BAYARD.

Two replies to this dispatch were made by our minister to China, dated,
respectively, September 5 and September 6, 1888. They were heretofore,
and on September 7, 1888,[26] sent to the Senate, and are printed in Senate
Executive Document No. 271.

The other of said dispatches is as follows:

WASHINGTON, _September 18, 1888_.

DENBY,
_Minister, Peking_:

The bill has passed both Houses of Congress for total exclusion of
Chinese and awaits President's approval. Public feeling on the Pacific
Coast excited in favor of it, and situation is critical. Impress upon
Government of China necessity for instant decision in the interest of
treaty relations and amity.

BAYARD.

The answer of our minister at Peking to this dispatch, dated September
21, 1888, was yesterday sent to the Senate with the message to which
this is a supplement.

The matters herein contained are now transmitted, to the end that they
may, if deemed pertinent, be added to the response already made to the
Senate resolution of inquiry, and with the intent that in any view of
the subject the answer to said resolution may be full and complete.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

[Footnote 26: See p. 627.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, January 7, 1889_.

_To the Senate_:

I transmit, with a view to its ratification, an agreement signed by the
plenipotentiaries of the United States and Denmark on the 6th ultimo,
submitting to arbitration the claim of Carlos Butterfield & Co. against
the Government of Denmark for indemnity for the seizure and detention of
the steamer _Ben Franklin_ and the bark _Catherine Augusta_ by
the authorities of the island of St. Thomas, of the Danish West India