[Footnote 65: Containing a history of Kansas affairs.]
WASHINGTON, _December 29, 1856_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In compliance with, a resolution of the Senate of the 23d instant,
requesting the President "to communicate to the Senate, if not
incompatible with the public interest, such information as he may have
concerning the present condition and prospects of a proposed plan for
connecting by submarine wires the magnetic telegraph lines on this
continent and Europe," I transmit the accompanying report from the
Secretary of State.