It is left to Congress to consider, under these circumstances, whether, although in strictness salvage may have been lawfully due, it might not yet be wise to make provision to refund it, as a proof of the entire good faith of the Government and of its disposition to fulfill all its treaty stipulations to their full extent under a fair and liberal construction.
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I transmit herewith additional documents having relation to the treaty with China, which may enable the Senate more satisfactorily to act upon it.
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