Millard Fillmore: “It is apprehended that it would not comport with the public interests to communicate it under existing circumstances”

In reply to the resolution of your honorable body of the 5th instant, I herewith communicate a report of the Secretary of the Interior giving the information required.

I have thought it expedient, in submitting them to the Senate with a view to their advice and consent to the ratification of the treaty in its present form, to have the entire instrument taken into a continuous draft, as well the…

I respectfully invite the attention of the two Houses to the suggestion in the latter part of the report

I transmit for the information of Congress the accompanying report from the Department of State on the present state of the negotiations