Office of the Historian

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May 9, 1894.—Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed.

To the Congress:

I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of State in regard to recent dispatches from the U. S. minister at Honolulu, received since my message of April 21, 1894, and also a dispatch from the minister dated April 14, 1894.

Grover Cleveland.

Executive Mansion,
Washington, May 9, 1894.
Department of State,
Washington, May 9, 1894.

The President:

The Secretary of State has the honor to lay before the President a copy of a dispatch, with its accompaniment, from our minister at Honolulu, No. 51, of April 14, 1894.

Mr. Willis’s dispatches, numbered 49 and 50, are dated April 13, 1894. The former acknowledges instructions numbered 17 to 21, inclusive, and the latter transmits a receipt for the Department’s cipher volume and holocryptic code.

Respectfully submitted.

W. Q. Gresham.