EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 3, 1889_.
_To the Senate_:
I desire to supplement the message yesterday sent to your honorable body
in response to a Senate executive resolution dated September 25, 1888,
asking the transmission of certain communications and correspondence on
the subject of the recent proposed convention with China and the
reported failure of the Government of China to finally agree to the
same, by adding to said response two telegrams I omitted therefrom,
which were sent in cipher by the Secretary of State to our minister at
Peking, and which may be considered by the Senate relevant to the
subject of its inquiry.
One of said dispatches is as follows:
WASHINGTON, _September 4, 1888_.
DENBY,
_Minister, Peking_:
Rejection of treaty is reported here. What information have you?