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the treaty on the part of the British plenipotentiaries, to secure 

 kindly and peaceful relations during the period that may be re- 

 quired for the consideration of the treaty by the respective Govern- 

 ments and for the enactment of the necessary legislation to carry its 

 provisions into effect if approved. 



This paper, freely and on their own motion, signed by the British 

 conferees, not only extends advantages to our fishermen, pending the 

 ratification of the treaty, but appears to have been dictated by a 

 friendly and amicable spirit. 



I am given to understand that the other governments concerned in 

 this treaty will, within a few days, in accordance with their methods 

 of conducting public business, submit said treaty to their respective 

 legislatures, when it will be at once published to the world. In view 

 of such action it appears to be advisable that, by publication here, 

 early and full knowledge of all that has been done in the premises 

 should be afforded to our people. 



It would also seem to be useful to inform the popular mind con- 

 cerning the history of the long continued disputes growing out of the 

 subject embraced in the treaty and to satisfy the public interests 

 touching the same, as well as to acquaint pur people with the present 

 status of the questions involved, and to give them the exact terms of 

 the proposed adjustment in place of the exaggerated and imaginative 

 statements which will otherwise reach them. 



I therefore beg leave respectfully to suggest that said treaty and 

 all such correspondence, messages, and documents relating to the 

 same as may be deemed important to accomplish these purposes be at 

 once made public by the order of your honorable body. 



GROVEB CLEVELAND. 



EXECUTIVE MANSION, February SO, 1888. 



Protocols transmitted by President in above Message to United 



States' Senate. 



I. PROTOCOL OF FISHERIES CONFERENCE. 



WASHINGTON, November #, 1887. 



The Fisheries Conference having formerly met, the Full Powers 

 of the Plenipotentiaries were exhibited and found to be in good and 

 due form, as follows : 



Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America. 

 To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: 



Know ye that, reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity 

 and ability of Thomas F. Bayard, Secretary of State ; William L. 

 Putnam, of Maine; and James B. Angel], of Michigan; I hereby 

 invest them with full power jointly and severally, for and in the 

 name of the United States, to meet and confer with Plenipoten- 

 tiaries representing the Government of Her Britannic Majesty, for 

 the purpose of considering and adjusting in a friendly spirit all or 



