negotiate in disposing of our
bonds for gold are not subject to our dictation.

I have only to add that in my opinion the transaction herein detailed
for the information of the Congress promises better results than the
efforts previously made in the direction of effectively adding to our
gold reserve through the sale of bonds, and I believe it will tend,
as far as such action can in present circumstances, to meet the
determination expressed in the law repealing the silver-purchasing
clause of the act of July 14, 1890, and that, in the language of such
repealing act, the arrangement made will aid our efforts to "insure the
maintenance of the parity in value of the coins of the two metals and
the equal power of every dollar at all times in the markets and in the
payment of debts."

GROVER CLEVELAND.

[Footnote 17: See pp. 561-565.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 8, 1895_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith, for the information of the Congress, a copy of
a telegraphic dispatch just received from Mr. Willis, our minister to
Hawaii, with a copy of the reply thereto which was immediately sent by
the Secretary of State.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 11, 1895_.

_To the Senate_::

On the 8th day of January I received a copy of the following Senate
resolution:

_Resolved_, That the President be requested, if not incompatible
with the public interests, to communicate to the Senate all reports,
documents, and other papers, including logs of vessels, relating to the
enforcement of the regulations respecting fur seals adopted by the
Governments of the United States and Great Britain in accordance with
the decision of the Tribunal of Arbitration convened at Paris and the
resolutions under which said reports are required to be made, as well
as relating to the number of seals taken during the season of 1894
by pelagic hunters and by the lessees of the Pribilof and Commander
islands; also relating to the steps which may have been taken to extend
the said regulations to the Asiatic waters of the North Pacific Ocean
and Bering Sea and to secure the concurrence of other nations in
said regulations, and, further, all papers not heretofore published,
including communications of the agent of the United States before said
tribunal at Paris, relating to the claims of the British Government on
account of the seizure of the sealing vessels i