EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 14, 1889_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:
I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress and such
legislation in respect of the matters therein presented as may seem
necessary and proper, a report of the Secretary of State, with
accompanying explanatory correspondence, in reference to the
international questions arising from the imposition of differential
rates of tonnage dues upon vessels entering ports of the United States
from foreign countries under the provisions of the fourteenth Section of
the act of June 26, 1884, and the later amendatory provisions of the act
of June 19, 1886, as set forth in said report.