Abraham Lincoln actually said...

"I recommend an appropriation to carry into effect the provisions thereof relative to the payment of the proportion of the United States toward the capitalization of the said dues."

"The attention of the proper committee of the House has, I am informed, been already directed to the preparation of a bill for this purpose."

"My reason for so doing is that I am informed that this joint resolution was prepared during the last moments of the last session of Congress for the purpose of correcting certain errors of reference i..."

"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 ..."