[Footnote 70: Relating to the sending of a commissioner from the United
States to Spain.]
WASHINGTON, _December 16, 1868_.
_To the House of Representatives_:
In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 14th
instant, requesting the correspondence which has taken place between the
United States minister at Brazil and Rear-Admiral Davis touching the
disposition of the American squadron at Rio Janeiro and the Paraguay
difficulties, I transmit a report of the Secretary of State upon that
subject.