ates_:

I transmit herewith, with a view to its ratification, a final protocol,
signed at Paris on the 7th day of July, 1887, by the plenipotentiaries
of the United States and of the other powers parties to the convention
of March 14, 1884, for the protection of submarine cables, fixing the
1st day of May, 1888, as the date on which the said convention of March
14, 1884, shall take effect, provided that those of the contracting
Governments that have not adopted the measures provided for by article
12 of the said convention shall have conformed to that stipulation.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, December 14, 1887_.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

I transmit herewith, with a view to its ratification, a convention
between the United States and the Kingdom of the Netherlands for the
extradition of criminals, signed at Washington on the 2d day of June,
1887.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 19, 1887_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, in relation
to the invitation from Her Britannic Majesty to this Government to
participate in the international exhibition which is to be held at
Melbourne in 1888 to celebrate the centenary of the founding of New
South Wales, the first Australian colony.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 19, 1887_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, in relation to
an invitation which has been extended to this Government to appoint a
delegate or delegates to the International Exposition of Labor to be
held in April, 1888, at Barcelona, Spain, and commend its suggestions to
the favorable attention of Congress.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, December 20, 1887_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of State,
accompanied by the report of Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Massachusetts, who
was specially designated by me, under the provisions of successive acts
of Congress in that behalf, to visit the financial centers of Europe in
order to ascertain the feasibility of establishing by international
arrangement a fixity of rates between the two precious metals in free
coinage of both.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 4, 1888_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I tra