Special Message
02/17/1859
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To this appropriation, for a wise and beneficial object, I have not the least objection.
It is now discovered, however, that it will require half a million more for the completion of the Washington Aqueduct.
I transmit, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to ratification, a convention for the adjustment of claims o...
It will be for Congress to consider whether the precedent established by this bill will not in effect annul all restrict...