State, concerning the expenses of the representation of the United
States at the Brussels Exhibition of 1888.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

[The same message was sent to the House of Representatives.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 28, 1889_.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

I have the honor to transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of
State, respecting the representation of the United States at the
Barcelona Exposition of 1888.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

[The same message was sent to the House of Representatives.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 2, 1889_.

_To the Congress_:

I herewith transmit the fifth report of the Civil Service Commission,
covering the year which ended June 30, 1888.

The cause of civil-service reform, which in a great degree is intrusted
to the Commission, I regard as so firmly established and its value so
fully demonstrated that I should deem it more gratifying than useful if
at this late day in the session of Congress I was permitted to enlarge
upon its importance and present condition.

A perusal of the report herewith submitted will furnish information of
the progress which has been made during the year to which it relates in
the extension of the operations of this reform and in the improvement of
its methods and rules.

It is cause for congratulation that watchfulness and care and fidelity
to its purposes are all that are necessary to insure to the Government
and our people all the benefits which its inauguration promised.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, March 2, 1889_.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

I transmit herewith, for the consideration of the Senate with a
view of giving its advice and consent to the ratification thereof, a
convention signed in Washington on March 1, 1889, by duly authorized
representatives of the United States and Mexico, providing for the
institution of an international commission to determine questions
between the United States and Mexico arising under the convention of
November 12, 1884, by reason of changes in the river bed of the Rio
Grande and the Colorado River when forming the boundary between the
two countries.

A report of the Secretary of State, with the accompanying correspondence
therein described, is also communicated for the information of the
Senate.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 2, 1889_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I herewith transmit a report of the