I earnestly invoke the attention of Congress to the consideration of such measures within its well-defined constitutional powers as will secure to all our people a free exercise of the right of suffrage and every other civil right under…

No obstacle is believed to exist that can long postpone the consideration and adjustment of the still pending questions upon satisfactory and honorable terms.

Such aid should be, as it always has been, suggested by some exceptional conditions.

Our people will await with interest and confidence the results to flow from so auspicious a meeting of allied and in large part identical interests.

The security of our coast cities against foreign attacks should not rest altogether in the friendly disposition of other nations.

The wrong does not expend itself upon those whose votes are suppressed.

It is neither safe nor wise to leave these people longer to the expedients which have temporarily served them.

The existence of so large an actual and anticipated surplus should have the immediate attention of Congress, with a view to reducing the receipts of the Treasury to the needs of the Government as closely as may be.

Our people have an interest that the national capital should be made attractive and beautiful.

We should not collect revenue for the purpose of anticipating our bonds beyond the requirements of the sinking fund.

The state of the Union is known from day to day, and suggestions as to needed legislation find an earlier voice than that which speaks in these annual communications of the President to Congress.

I invoke the diligent and serious attention of Congress to the consideration of these and such other measures as may be presented having the same great end in view.

Good will and cordiality have characterized our relations and correspondence with other governments.

Special Customs Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the places excepted from examination at the port of New York the following:Office of the General Appraiser: Chief clerk and law clerk.

With these brief suggestions the bill is respectfully returned, and the consideration of Congress invited to the accompanying preamble and resolutions.

I transmit herewith, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 16th of December last, a report from the Secretary of State of the 6th instant.

Feeling constrained to withhold my consent, I herewith return the resolution to the Senate, in which House it originated, with a brief statement of the reasons which have induced my action.

No power exists in the Constitution authorizing the joint resolution or the supposed law--the only difference being that one would be more palpably unconstitutional and revolutionary than the other.