The Treaty
before
the Senate.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs thoroughly sifted the subject, and recommended that the proposed Treaty be not ratified, and the
Its rejection.
In his next annual message, that of December 5th, 1870, he took up the matter again, went over all of his old arguments expressed in even more
The President's
attempt to renew
negotiations.
These recommendations and suggestions and the language in which they were expressed were felt to be most exasperating by those Senators and
The Committee
of Inquiry.