WASHINGTON, _February 9, 1849_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 6th instant,
requesting the President to cause to be laid before that body, in
"executive or open session, in his discretion, any instructions given to
Ambrose H. Sevier and Nathan Clifford, commissioned as ministers
plenipotentiary on the part of the United States to the Government of
Mexico, or to either of said ministers, prior to the ratification by the
Government of Mexico of the treaty of peace between the United States
and that Republic," and certain correspondence and other papers
specified in the said resolution, I communicate herewith a report from
the Secretary of State, together with copies of the documents called
for.
Having on the 8th instant, in compliance with a resolution of the House
of Representatives in its terms more comprehensive than that of the
Senate, communicated these and all other papers appertaining to the same
subject, with a message to that House, this communication is made to the
Senate in "open" and not in "executive" session.