xplanations of the
Secretary of State, and these alone, were before them.

The President of Mexico, on these explanations, on the 8th day of May,
1848, submitted the amended treaty to the Mexican Congress, and on the
25th of May that Congress approved the treaty as amended, without
modification or alteration. The final action of the Mexican Congress
had taken place before the commissioners of the United States had been
officially received by the Mexican authorities, or held any conference
with them, or had any other communication on the subject of the treaty
except to transmit the letter of the Secretary of State.

In their dispatch transmitted to Congress with my message of the 6th of
July last, communicating the treaty of peace, dated "City of Queretaro,
May 25, 1848, 9 o'clock p.m.," the commissioners say:

We have the satisfaction to inform you that we reached this city this
afternoon at about 5 o'clock, and that the treaty, as amended by the
Senate of the United States, passed the Mexican Senate about the hour of
our arrival by a vote of 33 to 5. It having previously passed the House
of Deputies, nothing now remains but to exchange the ratifications of
the treaty.

On the next day (the 26th of May) the commissioners were for the first
time presented to the President of the Republic and their credentials
placed in his hands. On this occasion the commissioners delivered an
address to the President of Mexico, and he replied. In their dispatch of
the 30th of May the commissioners say:

We inclose a copy of our address to the President, and also a copy of
his reply. Several conferences afterwards took place between Messrs.
Rosa, Cuevas, Conto, and ourselves, which it is not thought necessary to
recapitulate, as we inclose a copy of the protocol, which contains the
substance of the conversations. We have now the satisfaction to announce
that the exchange of ratifications was effected to-day.

This dispatch was communicated with my message of the 6th of July last,
and published by order of Congress.

The treaty, as amended by the Senate of the United States, with the
accompanying papers and the evidence that in that form it had been
ratified by Mexico, was received at Washington on the 4th day of July,
1848, and immediately proclaimed as the supreme law of the land. On the
6th of July I communicated to Congress the ratified treaty, with such
accompanying documents as were deemed material