I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty of friendship and commerce between the United States and the Government of the Samoan Islands, signed on the 17th instant.
Rutherford B. Hayes: “I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty of friendship and commerce between…”
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