lected.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, March 22, 1888_.

_To the Senate_:

I transmit herewith, for your advice and consent to the ratification
thereof, a convention between the United States and Venezuela, signed
the 15th instant, supplementary to the convention between the same
powers for the settlement of claims signed December 5, 1885.

I transmit also a report of the Secretary of State thereon and copies of
correspondence had with the diplomatic representative of Venezuela at
this capital in relation thereto.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 22, 1888_.

_To the Senate_:

In response to the resolution adopted by your honorable body on the 16th
instant, as follows--

_Resolved_, That the President of the United States be requested,
if in his judgment not incompatible with the public interest, to
transmit to the Senate copies of the minutes and daily protocols of
the meetings of the commissioners who negotiated the treaty with Great
Britain submitted by the President to the Senate on the 20th of
February, 1888--

I submit herewith a report of the Secretary of State, which I hope will
satisfactorily meet the request for information embraced in said
resolution.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 27, 1888_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith a report from Hon. George H. Pendleton, our minister
to Germany, dated January 30, 1888, from which it appears that
trichinosis prevails to a considerable extent in certain parts of
Germany and that a number of persons have already died from the effects
of eating the meat of diseased hogs which were grown in that country.

I also transmit a report from our consul at Marseilles, dated February
4, 1888, representing that for a number of months a highly contagious
and fatal disease has prevailed among the swine of a large section of
France, which disease is thought to be very similar to hog cholera by
the Commissioner of Agriculture, whose statement is herewith submitted.

It is extremely doubtful if the law passed April 29, 1878, entitled "An
act to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases
into the United States," meets cases of this description.

In view of the danger to the health and lives of our people and the
contagion that may be spread to the live stock of the country by the
importation of swine or hog products from either of the co