Secretary of State and accompanying
documents, relative to the undetermined boundary line between Alaska and
British Columbia.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 2, 1889_.

_To the House of Representatives_:

I herewith transmit a report from the Secretary of State, in further
response to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 22d
[21st] of December last, touching affairs in Madagascar.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 2, 1889_.

_To the Senate_:

I herewith transmit, for the information of Congress, a report from the
Secretary of State, with its accompanying correspondence, in regard to
the construction of certain dams or wing facings in the Rio Grande at
Paso del Norte (Ciudad Juarez), opposite the city of El Paso, Tex.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 2, 1889_.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

I have the honor to transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary
of State, covering the report of the commissioner of the United States
to the Brussels Exhibition of 1888.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

VETO MESSAGES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 19, 1888_.

_To the House of Representatives_:

I return without approval House bill No. 5080, entitled "An act for the
relief of C.B. Wilson."

This bill directs the Postmaster-General to credit to the beneficiary
therein named, who is the postmaster at Buena Vista, in the State of
Colorado, the sum of $225, being post-office funds forwarded by him to
the deposit office at Denver, but which were lost in transmission.

A general law was passed on the 9th day of May, 1888, authorizing the
Postmaster-General to make allowances and credits to postmasters in
precisely such cases.

On the 8th day of September, 1888, under the sanction of that law, the
credit directed by this bill was made.

It is plain, therefore, that the bill herewith returned ought not to
become a law unless it is proposed to duplicate the credit therein
mentioned.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 16, 1889_.

_To the House of Representatives_:

I return without approval House bill No. 8469, entitled "An act for the
relief of Michael Pigott."

This bill appropriates the sum of $48 to the beneficiary therein named,
formerly the postmaster at Quincy, Ill., which was paid by him for the
use of a telephone for the year ending June 30, 1873.

There is evidently a mistake made in the statement of