Referring your honorable body to the message of December 1, 1884, by which I transmitted to the Senate, with a view to ratification, a treaty negotiated with Belgium touching the succession to and acquirement of real property, etc., by the citizens or subjects of the one Government in the domain of the other, I now address you in order to recall the treaty thus transmitted for reexamination.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 17, 1885.
To the Senate of the United States:
Referring to my message of the 13th instant, concerning the report of the Central and South American commissioners, I have the honor to inform the Senate that the report therein stated as accompanying the message was transmitted with a like message to the House of Representatives.
A note of explanation to this effect was inadvertently omitted from the former message.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 19, 1885.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State of the 19th instant, recommending the enactment of a law for the protection of submarine cables in pursuance of our treaty obligations under the international convention in relation to the subject signed at Paris on the 14th day of March, 1884.