It is cause for congratulation that watchfulness and care and fidelity to its purposes are all that are necessary to insure to the Government and our people all the benefits which its inauguration promised.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, March 2, 1889.
To the Senate of the United States:
I transmit herewith, for the consideration of the Senate with a view of giving its advice and consent to the ratification thereof, a convention signed in Washington on March 1, 1889, by duly authorized representatives of the United States and Mexico, providing for the institution of an international commission to determine questions between the United States and Mexico arising under the convention of November 12, 1884, by reason of changes in the river bed of the Rio Grande and the Colorado River when forming the boundary between the two countries.
A report of the Secretary of State, with the accompanying correspondence therein described, is also communicated for the information of the Senate.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 2, 1889.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I herewith transmit a report of the Secretary of State and accompanying documents, relative to the undetermined boundary line between Alaska and British Columbia.