Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-31
rHEPREs1DENT,s MESSAGE

To Congress Relative to thc Samoan
 Qaestion-Prince vOn Bismarek's In-
 ssruesions to the German Consul at
 Washington.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.-The President to- day sent to Congress additional correspon- dence relative to Samoan affairs, accompanied by the following message:
 To the Congress-I had the honor on the 18th instant to communicate to your honor able body certain correspondence and docu- ments in relation to affairs in the Samoan Islands, and having since received further despatches from the vice consul at Apia and the commander of the United States naval vessel Nipsio in thoseiwaters lose no time in laying them before you.I also transmit, here- with, the full text of instructions from Prince von Bisnark to the German minister at this capital, which was communicated on the af- ternoon of the 20t instant This appears to be an ampli6cation of prior telegraphic in- struction on the same subject communicated through the same channel, and which being set forth in the note of tha Secretary of State
 to Count von Arco Valley ,the German minis
 ter of the 18th instant, was duly laid before congress with my last message in regard to
 Samoan affairs. It is also proper to inform
 you that on Monday, the 2Sth instant, the
 occasion of the communication of the note of the prince chancellor, the secretary of State was given to understand by the German min ister that a proposition from his government to that of the United States for conference on the Samoan question was on it's way by mail, having left Berlin on the 20th inst., so that it's arrival here in due course of mail can be looked for in a very short time. In reply to an inquiry whether the proposition refer. red to was for a renewal of the joint confer ence between the United States, Germany and Great Britain, which was suspended ir l July, 1887, or for the consideration of Samoan affairs ab novo, the German minister stated his inability to answer until the proposition which left Berlin on the 2Oth instant should have been received.
 shall hereafter communicate to the con. ! press all information before me in relation tc | the Samoan status.
 (Signed) GROVER CLEVELAND. | Prince Bismarck to Count von Arco-V Valley, translation, Minister Foreign Affairs. BERLIN, Jan. 13, '69. I have already notified your excellencJ | that, according to telegraphic commnniea | tions from Apia on the 18th of December oi | last year. detachment of German naval forces which had landed at the request of the l imperial consul for the protection of German | settlements which were endangered by ths conflicts between the native parties, they | were attacked by armed Samoans belonging to the party of Chief Mataaia. This unpre. voked attack is said to have taken place un' | der the leadership of an American named Klein. On this occasion more tha, | thirty German soldiers and officer were killed and wounded. In conse uuence of this we have been transplant l ted from the territory of mediatoria1 nego Etiations by which the imperial consul in Api | wes trying to reconcile the contending par ties and for which he has sought the@co-oper ation of his English and American col leagues into state of war with the assail lants to our regret.
 We shall carry on the contest which ha been forced upon us by Mataa6a and his fol