Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1872, Part II, Volume II

No. 111.
Mr. Fish to Mr. Davis.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, June 18, 1872.

If there is to be an adjournment, let it be not beyond first January, so as to allow time for a Treaty, if one be agreed upon, to be submitted to the Senate in December, and thereafter for the necessary legislation respecting fisheries, assessors, &c. The President sees no objection to such adjournment, if asked for by the defendants, and nothing objectionable shall have been presented. You and Counsel will understand, and, if necessary, can say, that there can be no extra session of the Senate called; and there will be no extra session in March.

FISH.