EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, April 18, 1884_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives:_ I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of State, dated the 16th instant, respecting the approaching international conference at Washington, D.C., for the purpose of fixing upon a meridian proper to be employed as a common zero of longitude and standard of time reckoning throughout the globe, and recommend that the sum of $10,000 be appropriated to enable the Secretary of State to meet the expenses of the same. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, April 18, 1884_. _To the Senate of the United States:_ In response to the resolution of the Senate of the 5th of December last, respecting the execution by the United States of the ninth article of the treaty of 1819 with Spain, I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State and its accompanying papers. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, April 22, 1884_. _To the Senate of the United States:_ I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State, in response to a resolution of the Senate of February 29, 1884, requesting information concerning the respective average production, consumption, exportation, and importation of wheat, rye, corn, and cotton in foreign countries, together with statistics showing the production and surplus or deficiency in the crops of the past two years in each of such countries, an estimate of the probable requirements of such products from the United States to meet the wants of these countries before the crops of the coming crop year are ready for market, and other available information concerning the questions to which the resolution refers. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, April 24, 1884_. _To the House of Representatives:_ I transmit herewith, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 21st instant, a report of the Secretary of State, with the accompanying papers, in relation to the threatened confiscation of the American college at Rome by the Italian Government. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, April 28, 1884_. _To the House of Representatives:_ I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State, in relation to the bill for the support of the diplomatic and consular services. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, May 3, 1884_. _To the House of Representatives:_ I transmit herewith, for your consideration, a communication from the Secretary of State, recommending the appropriation of the sum of $22,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to meet the proper obligations of the Government on account of the courteous services of the various umpires of the late American-Spanish Commission. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, May 6, 1884_. _To the Senate of the United States:_