It is deemed advisable by the Department that our diplomatic relations with the States of Central America should be placed on a higher and more efficient footing.

This measure meets my approbation.

The importance of the measure seemed to require an exposition somewhat in detail of the grounds on which it is recommended.

Lieutenant Herndon's report of the exploration of the valley of the Amazon and its tributaries

I herewith transmit a communication from the Secretary of the Navy

Made by him in connection with Lieutenant Lardner Gibbon, under instructions from the Navy Department

To the Senate and House of Representatives

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

Having in my message to Congress at the opening of the session adverted to the pending negotiations between this Government and that of Great Britain relative to the fisheries and commercial reciprocity with the British American Provinces

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

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…

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'…

The modifications which the Government of the Swiss Confederation are desirous of introducing into the amendments made by the Senate of the United States and the articles affected by them are not inconsistent with the object and spirit of…

Should the convention receive the approbation of the Senate in its present form, it will be immediately transmitted to Switzerland for ratification by the Swiss Confederation.

I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents which accompanied it.

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 13th instant, requesting a copy of correspondence and other documents relative to Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and the territory claimed by the Mosquito Indians, I transmit a report of the…

Since my last message to your honorable body, communicating a report from the Treasury Department, in answer to your resolution of the 3d instant (27th ultimo?), in reference to the compensation of weighers and gaugers, further…

To the Senate of the United States: