The weight of these mails, averaging from 12 to 15 tons semi-monthly, renders it, in view of the climate and character of the road, manifestly impossible to forward them overland without involving an expenditure which no wise administration of the Government would impose upon the Treasury.
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The minister of that Republic is disappointed in not having received the copy intended for exchange, and the period will lapse without the possibility of carrying out the provisions of the convention in this respect.
Before accepting this proposition I have thought it right to take the advice of the Senate.
There is but one mode left of settling the dispute, and that is by submitting it to the arbitration of some friendly and impartial power.
The dispatch of Mr. Dallas being in the original, its return to the Department of State is requested.
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