U.S. GRANT.
WASHINGTON, _March 10, 1876_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I transmit to the Senate, for consideration with a view to ratification,
a metric convention between the United States and certain foreign
governments, signed at Paris on the 20th of May, 1875, by Mr. E.B.
Washburne, the minister of the United States at that capital, acting on
behalf of this Government, and by the representatives acting on behalf
of the foreign powers therein mentioned.
A copy of certain papers on the subject, mentioned in the subjoined
list, is also transmitted for the information of the Senate.
U.S. GRANT.
WASHINGTON, _March 22, 1876_.
_To the House of Representatives_:
In answer to a resolution[102] of the House of Representatives of the 23d
of February ultimo, I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State
and the papers which accompany it.
U.S. GRANT.
[Footnote 102: Calling for information or facts relative to the charges
against George F. Seward, United States minister to China.]
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 23, 1876_.
_To the House of Representatives_:
In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the
3d of February last, requesting the President "to require a competent,
experienced military officer of the United States to execute the duties
of an Indian agent so far as to repair to the Red Cloud Agency, and, in
his discretion, other Sioux agencies, with instructions to inquire into
the causes of" the exhaustion of the appropriation for the subsistence
and support of the Sioux Indians for the present fiscal year; "as also
his opinion as to whether any further and what amount should be
appropriated for the subsistence and support of said Indians for the
remainder of the current fiscal year," I have the honor to transmit
herewith the report of Lieutenant-Colonel Merritt, of the Ninth Cavalry,
who was charged by the Secretary of War with the duty of making the
inquiries called for by said resolution.
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