[Footnote 26: See p. 627.]
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, January 7, 1889_.
_To the Senate_:
I transmit, with a view to its ratification, an agreement signed by the
plenipotentiaries of the United States and Denmark on the 6th ultimo,
submitting to arbitration the claim of Carlos Butterfield & Co. against
the Government of Denmark for indemnity for the seizure and detention of
the steamer _Ben Franklin_ and the bark _Catherine Augusta_ by
the authorities of the island of St. Thomas, of the Danish West India
Islands, in the years 1854 and 1855; for the refusal of the ordinary
right to land cargo for the purpose of making repairs; for the injuries
resulting from a shot fired into one of the vessels, and for other
wrongs. I also transmit a report from the Secretary of State inclosing
the recent correspondence between the two Governments in regard to the
claim.