I transmit herewith, with a view to its ratification, a treaty between the United States of America and Zanzibar.

I deem myself now justified in expressing to the Senate, in response to its resolution, the hope and expectation that a treaty will soon be concluded.

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State on the subject.

I herewith transmit a letter from the Secretary of State, accompanied by documents and correspondence, in relation to the recent negotiations with Great Britain concerning American fishing interests in British North American waters.

I take pleasure in expressing my concurrence in the suggestion therein referred to.

I hereby direct that the officers, clerks, and other employees of the United States Civil Service Commission shall be arranged in the following classes.

I believe that it supplies a satisfactory, practical, and final adjustment, upon a basis honorable and just to both parties, of the difficult and vexed question to which it relates.

The treaty now submitted to you has been framed in a spirit of liberal equity and reciprocal benefits.

This intercourse is still but partially developed, and if the amicable enterprise and wholesome rivalry between the two populations be not obstructed the promise of the future is full of the fruits of an unbounded prosperity on both sides…

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, relative to an invitation from the Imperial German Government to the Government of the United States to become a party to the International Geodetic Association.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a communication of 4th instant from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting, with other papers, a draft of a bill to accept and ratify an agreement made with the Shoshone…

To the Senate:I transmit herewith, in response to the resolution of the Senate of the 21st of December last, a report from the Secretary of State, in relation to Midway Island.

I transmit herewith the first report of the board of control created by the act of Congress approved August 4, 1886.

These intruders should forthwith feel the weight of the Government's power.

I earnestly commend the situation and the wrongs of the Indians occupying the reservation named to the early attention of the Congress.

The documents thus submitted exhibit extensive and entirely unjustifiable encroachments upon lands set apart for Indian occupancy and disclose a disregard of Indian rights so long continued that the Government can not further temporize…

I transmit herewith, with a view to its ratification, a treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation between the United States and the Republic of Peru.

To the Senate of the United States: I transmit, with a view to its ratification, an additional article, signed October 22, 1887, to the treaty for the extradition of criminals.