Prompt action upon this treaty is very desirable.  If it meets the approval of the Senate, peace and good order will be secured in the islands under existing laws until such time as Congress can provide by legislation a permanent form of government for the islands.  This legislation should be, and I do not doubt will be, not only just to the natives and all other residents and citizens of the islands, but should be characterized by great liberality and a high regard to the rights of all people and of all foreigners domiciled there.  The correspondence which accompanies the treaty will put the Senate in possession of all the facts known to the Executive.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, February 16, 1893.

To the Senate: 

I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of State of the 15th instant, covering a report, with accompanying correspondence, respecting relations between the United States and the Hawaiian Islands from September, 1820, to January, 1893.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, February 20, 1893.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit herewith a report submitted by the Acting Secretary of State in response to the resolution of the Senate of February 2 last, relating to the building of the Ozama River bridge at Santo Domingo City by American citizens.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, February 21, 1893.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith a communication of the Secretary of State, transmitting the official report of the American delegates to the International Monetary Conference convened at Brussels on November 22, 1892, with its accompaniments.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 25, 1893.

To the Senate of the United States: 

In compliance with a resolution of the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring, I return herewith the bill (S. 3811) entitled “An act to amend an act entitled ’An act to grant to the Mobile and Dauphin Island Railroad and Harbor Company the right to trestle across the shoal water between Cedar Point and Dauphin Island,’ approved September 26, 1890.”

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, February 27, 1893.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I herewith transmit, for the information of Congress, a communication from the Acting Secretary of State, forwarding certain bulletins of the Bureau of the American Republics.

BENJ.  HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, D.C., March 1, 1893.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith the fifth special report of the Commissioner of Labor.  The report relates to the so-called “Gothenburg system” of regulating the liquor traffic, the system prevailing in Norway and Sweden.