EXECUTIVE DErARTMEET, ] Washington, Juue l6, 1915. ]

Gentlemen ofthe Senate and of4ha House of fRenresentnliYes: R
{"newspaper_name": "Mobile register and journal.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
{"character_count": 4432, "word_count": 756, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9585999846458435], "ccnet_perplexity": [1075.0], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
Washington, Juue l0, lo4o. Gentlemen ofthe Senate

 and ofthe House of Representatives: am happy 10 greet you this interesting occa- sion, the representatives of the people, again as- sembrd in the dis, urge of your high and important duties. The call of an extraordinary session of Con- gress at thls early day by the Executive was not made without the most mature deberaton and a due reference the great crisis which has arisen since your late adjournment, n the affairs of Texas, as well as the almost unanimous expression of pubic will which took place throughout the country in gard to the same.

 The executive has now the pleasure to transmit to the honorable Congress, for such action they may deem suitable, the propositions which have been made on the part of the United States 10 this Gov ernment, for the Annexation of Texas and it's incor porat ion as Il State ulo that great and kIndied con federacy, together with the correspondence between the two Governments which has al isen out of the same This >pondeHce, entering as 1t does very fully into the views and sentiments of the Govern ments in question: renders il necessary for the Exc cutve 10 add (ior the information consideration o Consress) but little thereto in reference to the pro posed measure.

 The Executive has much satisfaction ID observing what doubt will lorcihy arrest the attention o the Congress-that although the terms embraced m the resolutions Of the United States Congress may a first have appeared less favorable than was desira be for Texas, that the very liberal and magnanimous views entertained by the President of the United

 

 through he Representative of that country m regard to the future advantages O be extended tu her II she consent to the proposed union render those terms much moie acceptable than they would otherwise have been.

 The state of public opinion, and the great auxiety o the people to definitely upon the ubject of An nexation by Convention of Deputies, as prescribed m the Resolutions ofthe Uniiei States Congress induced the Executive 10 issue his Proclamation on the 5ih of May, ut recommending an election ior sixty. deputies be hel in the several counties throughout the Republic on ihe 4h o the present month, and To assemble in Convention al the city of Austin the 4h of July next. This recommenda- ton has met the sanction of the citizens of Texas generally, and the deputies in he several counties, far as heard from, having been elected upon the basis proposed, il is confidently expected the vention viii mblc at the tune and place fixed upon. To this Convention ihe question oi Annexa- lion and the adop'ion of d St,te Constitution will probacly belong, and they will deter mine he grea, question of the nationality of Texas as to them sla l seem most conducive 10 the interest, happiness and prosperity of the people whom they will represent. It Is important that the 'consent o the existing GO. vernment' should be gwen t0 Iheir exercising the powers which have been delegated to Ihen in order to comply with requirement 10 that effect in the Resolutions on the subject of Annexation passed by the American Congress- For this purpose the pre-. sent extraordinary session of the Congress oi the Republic of Tcxas has been c0mvoked, aud to it's wisdom. as d co.ordinate Department, tine Executive now submits the determination of the matter.

 The services to be performed by the Convention will be ardiuous, and will probably engage it for a considerable period of time; and the Executive would respectfully recommend to Congress the proprety O, making suitable apporiimmcii for the payment ol members as well as the officers il may find occasion to employ.

 The Executive has the pleasure, in addition to presenting Congress the propositions concerning An nexation, to inform them that certain conditions preliminary to treaty of peace upon the basis of Il recognition of the Independence of Texns by Mex co were signed on the part of lhe latter. the cit, of Mexico, the 10th of May last, and were trans. Initled to this Government on the 2d inst, by the Baron Alley de Cyprey. Minister Plenlpoieniary of hls Majesty the King of the French that court. by the hands of Cap, Elliott her Brilanic Maje-ty's Charged' Affaires near this Government. In con- sequence oft the signing of these prelimnaries, the Executive believed il 10 be his duy, the of Congress, to make the fact know to the psople of