ANT.

[Footnote 88: Report of fees collected, etc., by consular officers of
the United States for 1873, list of consular officers, and tariff of
consular fees prescribed by the President September 1, 1874.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 22, 1874_.

The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:

I have the honor to transmit herewith, for the information of Congress,
a memorial[89] forwarded to me by a convention of colored citizens
assembled in the city of Montgomery, Ala., on the 2d of this month.

U.S. GRANT.

[Footnote 89: Asking all the rights of citizenship.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 5, 1875_.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 21st December last,
requesting the return of its resolution of the 17th of the same month,
advising and consenting to the appointment of J.C.S. Colby to be consul
of the United States at Chin-Kiang, I have the honor to state that
Mr. Colby's commission was signed on the 17th day of December, and
upon inquiry at the Department of State it was found that it had been
forwarded to him by mail before the receipt of the resolution of recall.

U.S. GRANT.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 12, 1875_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

In accordance with the requirements of the joint resolution approved
March 25, 1874, authorizing an inquiry into and report upon the causes
of epidemic cholera, I have the honor to transmit herewith reports upon
the subject from the Secretaries of the Treasury and War Departments.

U.S. GRANT.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 13, 1875_.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

I have the honor to make the following answer to a Senate resolution of
the 8th instant, asking for information as to any interference by any
military officer or any part of the Army of the United States with the
organization or proceedings of the general assembly of the State of
Louisiana, or either branch thereof; and also inquiring in regard to the
existence of armed organizations in that State hostile to the government
thereof and intent on overturning such government by force.

To say that lawlessness, turbulence, and bloodshed have characterized
the political affairs of that State since its reorganization under the
reconstruction acts is only to repeat what has become well known as a
part of its unhappy history; but it may be proper here to refer to the
election of 1868, by which the Republican