As a mark of respect for his memory, it is ordered that the Executive Departments be immediately placed in mourning and all business be suspended on the day of the funeral.

I communicate, for the consideration of the Senate, a report from the Secretary of State, accompanied by a copy of a dispatch recently received from the acting United States consul in charge of the legation at San Jose, Costa Rica.

To the House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in reply to the resolution of the House of Representatives adopted on the 26th instant, making inquiries relative to a naval force at Hayti.

I transmit to Congress the accompanying documents, which embrace all the papers that have been submitted to me relating to the proceedings to which they refer in the States of North Carolina and Louisiana.

I transmit herewith reports from the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney-General, prepared in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 17th December last, requesting information in reference to the seizure and…

No report upon this subject has yet been received by me from the War Department.

I transmit to the Senate, in further answer to their resolution of the 14th of April last, the accompanying report from the Secretary of State.

I transmit to Congress the accompanying documents, which I deem it proper to state are all the papers* that have been submitted to the President relating to the proceedings to which they refer in the States of South Carolina and Arkansas.

The orders issued by me upon this subject are in accordance with long-established usage and hitherto unquestioned authority.

I transmit herewith the report of the Secretary of State on the subject, with its accompanying papers.

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 5th of February, last, calling for the correspondence upon the subject of the murder by the inhabitants of the island of Formosa of the ship's company of the American bark Rover

I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and a report from the Secretary of the Navy, with accompanying papers.

To the House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a report and accompanying document, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 11th ultimo.

Thus far during the existence of the Government the Supreme Court of the United States has been viewed by the people as the true expounder of their Constitution, and in the most violent party conflicts its judgments and decrees have always…

I transmit to the House of Representatives, in answer to a resolution of the 9th instant, the accompanying report from the Secretary of State.

In answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 18th ultimo, relating to the report of Mr. Cowdin, I transmit a report of the Secretary of State and the document to which it refers.

For these reasons, thus briefly and imperfectly stated, and for others, of which want of time forbids the enumeration, I deem it my duty to withhold my assent from this bill, and to return it for the reconsideration of Congress.

I can not give my assent to a measure which proposes to deprive any person 'restrained of his or her liberty in violation of the Constitution or of any treaty. or law of the United States' from the right of appeal to the highest judicial…