GROVER CLEVELAND.
SPECIAL MESSAGES.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, December 14, 1887.
To the Senate of the United States:
I transmit herewith, with a view to its ratification, a final protocol, signed at Paris on the 7th day of July, 1887, by the plenipotentiaries of the United States and of the other powers parties to the convention of March 14, 1884, for the protection of submarine cables, fixing the 1st day of May, 1888, as the date on which the said convention of March 14, 1884, shall take effect, provided that those of the contracting Governments that have not adopted the measures provided for by article 12 of the said convention shall have conformed to that stipulation.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, December 14, 1887.
To the Senate of the United States:
I transmit herewith, with a view to its ratification, a convention between the United States and the Kingdom of the Netherlands for the extradition of criminals, signed at Washington on the 2d day of June, 1887.