y him
at Honolulu, the instructions given to both Mr. Blount and Minister
Willis, and correspondence connected with the affair in hand.

In commending this subject to the extended powers and wide discretion of
the Congress I desire to add the assurance that I shall be much
gratified to cooperate in any legislative plan which may be devised for
the solution of the problem before us which is consistent with American
honor, integrity, and morality.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

[Footnote 4: See pp. 348-349.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, December 18, 1893_.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

In compliance with a resolution passed by the Senate on the 6th instant,
I hereby transmit reports of the Secretaries of State and of the Navy,
with copies of all instructions given to the respective diplomatic and
naval representatives of the United States in the Hawaiian Islands since
the 4th day of March, 1881, touching the matters specified in the
resolution.

It has seemed convenient to include in the present communication to the
Senate copies of the diplomatic correspondence concerning the political
condition of Hawaii, prepared for transmission to the House of
Representatives in response to a later resolution passed by that body on
the 13th instant.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, December 18, 1893_.

_To the House of Representatives_:

In compliance with a resolution passed by your honorable body on the
13th instant, I hereby transmit a report of the Secretary of State,
with copies of the instructions given to Mr. Albert S. Willis, the
representative of the United States now in the Hawaiian Islands, and
also the correspondence since the 4th day of March, 1889, concerning
the relations of this Government to those islands.

In making this communication I have withheld only a dispatch from the
former minister to Hawaii, numbered 70, under date of October 8, 1892,
and a dispatch from the present minister, numbered 3, under date of
November 16, 1893, because in my opinion the publication of these two
papers would be incompatible with the public interest.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 4, 1894_.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State, submitted in
compliance with the resolution of October 17 last, in the matter of the
claim of certain persons against the Government of Spain for illegal
arrest off the coast of Y