to the
seizure and delivery up of the American vessel _Haytien Republic_.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 16, 1889_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I have the honor to lay before you a report from the Secretary of State,
with accompanying correspondence, in relation to the possible
disturbances on the Isthmus of Panama in the event of the stoppage of
work on the proposed interoceanic canal.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 21, 1889_.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

I transmit herewith, in response to a resolution of the Senate of the
5th instant, a report of the Secretary of State, touching correspondence
with Venezuela in regard to the exchange of ratifications of the claims
convention of December 5, 1885, between the United States and Venezuela
and to the suspension by Venezuela of the monthly quotas of indebtedness
under the convention between the two countries of April 25, 1866,
together with copies of sundry correspondence between the Department of
State and owners of Venezuelan certificates of award or their attorneys
on the same subject, as requested in said resolution.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 30, 1889_.

_To the Senate and the House of Representatives_:

For the information of Congress I herewith transmit a report of the
Secretary of State, with accompanying correspondence, relating to the
execution of an agreement made between the representatives of certain
foreign powers and the Korean Government in 1884 in respect to a foreign
settlement at Chemulpo.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 30, 1880_.

_To the Congress_:

I had the honor on the 15th instant to communicate to your honorable
body certain correspondence and documents in relation to affairs in
the Samoan Islands[29]; and having since that date received further
dispatches from the vice-consul at Apia and the commander of the United
States naval vessel _Nipsic_ in those waters, I lose no time in
laying them before you.

I also transmit herewith the full text of an instruction from Prince von
Bismarck to the German minister at this capital, which was communicated
to the Secretary of State on the afternoon of the 28th instant.

This appears to be an amplification of a prior telegraphic instruction
on the same subject communicated through the same channel, and, being
set forth in the note of the Secretary of State to Count vo