The bill is not, however, so flagrantly inexpedient as to call for my formal disapproval, and I have allowed it to become a law under the constitutional provision, contenting myself with communicating to the Senate, in which the bill originated, my disapproval of special legislation of this character.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, January 27, 1885.
To the Senate of the United States:
I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, an additional article, signed on the 23d of June last, to the treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation which was concluded between the United States and the Argentine Confederation July 27, 1853.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 27, 1885.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of State, concerning the awards made against Venezuela by the mixed commission under the convention of April 25, 1866.
I earnestly invite the attention of Congress to this communication and the accompanying documents.