Millard Fillmore: “I transmit a report from the Department of State and the documents by which it was accompanied.”

I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a consular convention concluded in this city on the 23d instant between the United States and His Majesty the Emperor of the French.

Respect to the Spanish Government demands that its urgent representation should be candidly and impartially weighed.

The delays which have taken place in the negotiation of this treaty have been principally caused by the want of a resident diplomatic agent of the United States at Berne, and are among the reasons for which an appropriation for a charge'…

For these reasons I have deemed it proper to submit the whole matter to Congress, for such action as they may deem best.