Government

For obvious reasons connected with our internal affairs, the subject has not sooner been submitted to the Senate.

That amendment is of so much importance that the adoption or rejection of it by the Government of Nicaragua should not be left to construction or inference.

This renders it desirable that the Senate should decide in regard to it as soon as this may be convenient

I commend to the particular attention of Congress those parts of it which show that further legislation is desirable for the public welfare in that quarter.

I recommend the appropriation of the amount of the award of the referees.

In the annual message last December I thought fit to say 'the Union must be preserved, and hence all indispensable means must be employed.'

While the President, with the surviving members of the Cabinet, the legislative and judicial departments of the Government, will unite in every testimonial the sad occasion demands, it is fitting a similar respect should be shown to the…

The urgency of the case not only justifies but demands that, if necessary, this shall be done by a separate bill.

It is impossible to avoid this catastrophe unless we make provision this very day to meet the lawful demands on the public Treasury.

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of War, with accompanying paper, in obedience to the resolution of the Senate adopted 23d February.

Surely the present is the most unpropitious moment which could have been selected for the passage of this bill.

The aggregate expenditure, of whatsoever nature, including all salaries, whether special or by virtue of official position in the Army or Navy or otherwise, on account of the preparation and publication of the work known as Wilkes's…

I still entertain the same opinion, deeming it highly important, if not indispensable to the success of any negotiation which I might institute for this purpose, that the measure should receive the previous sanction of Congress.

This should have accompanied the papers which have already been transmitted to the House, but was omitted by mistake.

I concur with the Attorney-General in the opinion that it would be incompatible with the public interest at this time to communicate the correspondence with the officers of the Government at Savannah or the instructions which they have…

Effective measures have been taken to see the laws faithfully executed.

I did not approve this joint resolution

I would ere this have recommended to Congress the passage of a joint resolution to restore him to his former rank.