EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, January 13, 1887_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to
ratification, a declaration of the late international conference at
Paris, explanatory of the convention of March 14, 1884, for the
protection of submarine cables, made between the United States of
America and Germany, Argentine Confederation, Austria-Hungary, Belgium,
Brazil, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Spain, United States of
Colombia, France, Great Britain, Guatemala, Greece, Italy, Turkey,
Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Roumania, Russia, Salvador, Servia,
Sweden and Norway, and Uruguay.
The declaration has been generally accepted by the signatory powers, and
Mr. McLane, the representative of the United States at the conference,
has been instructed to sign it, subject to the approval of the Senate.