In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 13th ultimo, requesting information upon the present condition of Mexico and the case of the French war transport steamer Rhine, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the papers by which it was accompanied.
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But there is a task yet before us---to go forward and consummate by the votes of the States that which Congress so nobly began yesterday.
The Provost-Marshal-General is ordered to make the draft in the respective districts as speedily as the same can be done after the 15th of this month.
He disclaims all right of the Executive to interfere in any way in the matter of canvassing or counting electoral votes.
Since the adjournment of the last session of Congress other errors of a kind similar to those which this resolution was designed to correct have been discovered in the law, and it is now thought most expedient to include all the necessary corrections in one act or resolution.
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