"By what authority have the committee undertaken to investigate the course of the President in regard to the convention which framed the Lecompton constitution?"
"By what authority have they inquired into the causes of removal from office, and this from the parties themselves removed, with a view to prejudice his character, notwithstanding this power of removal..."
"In the language of Mr. Madison, speaking on this very subject in the forty-eighth number of the Federalist: In a representative republic, where the executive magistracy is carefully limited, both in t..."
"I concur in the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior that the treaty should be ratified, with the amendments suggested by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs."
"In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 21st instant, requesting any information recently received respecting the Chinese cooly trade which has not been heretofore com..."
"I have the honor to transmit to the House of Representatives a report of the Attorney-General, which, with the accompanying documents, contains the information required."
"These negroes have doubtless been delivered to the marshal; and with those captured on board the Wildfire will make the number in his custody about 1,000."
"It is truly lamentable that Great Britain and the United States should be obliged to expend such a vast amount of blood and treasure for the suppression of the African slave trade."
"It is quite clear from its terms that the President was authorized to provide 'for the safe-keeping, support, and removal' of these negroes up till the time of their delivery to the agent on the coast..."
"I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a convention between the United States and Spain for the settlement of claims, signed at Madrid on the 5th of March last."
"The honor to transmit the report, with the accompanying documents, of the Secretary of the Interior, who was instructed to collect the information."
"In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 2d of February, 1859, requesting information in regard to the compulsory service of citizens of the United States in the army of Prussia, I trans..."