EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 21, 1889_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit herewith, in response to a resolution of the Senate of the
5th instant, a report of the Secretary of State, touching correspondence
with Venezuela in regard to the exchange of ratifications of the claims
convention of December 5, 1885, between the United States and Venezuela
and to the suspension by Venezuela of the monthly quotas of indebtedness
under the convention between the two countries of April 25, 1866,
together with copies of sundry correspondence between the Department of
State and owners of Venezuelan certificates of award or their attorneys
on the same subject, as requested in said resolution.