This subject is submitted with the hope that the consideration it
deserves may be given it at the present session.
U.S. GRANT.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 25, 1875_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:
I have the honor to transmit herewith the report of the commission of
engineers appointed in compliance with the act of Congress approved June
22, 1874, to investigate and report a permanent plan for the reclamation
of the alluvial basin of the Mississippi River subject to inundation.
U.S. GRANT.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 26, 1875_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:
I have the honor to transmit herewith, for the information of Congress,
a report of the progress made to this date by the United States
Centennial Commission appointed in accordance with the requirements of
the act approved June 1, 1872.
U.S. GRANT.
WASHINGTON, _February 1, 1875_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to the Senate, for consideration with a view to ratification,
a treaty concluded on the 30th ultimo between this Government and His
Hawaiian Majesty, on the subject of commercial reciprocity. I also
transmit, for the information of the Senate, the papers mentioned in the
subjoined list, relating to the commerce between the United States and
the Hawaiian Islands.
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