Andrew Johnson: “It is true this military government is to be only provisional, but it is through this temporary evil that a greater evil…”

I transmit the accompanying communications from the Secretary of the Interior, together with the papers to which they have reference.

The danger of a defeat of the people's choice in an election by the House of Representatives remains unprovided for in the Constitution.

The foregoing views have long been entertained by me.

I would therefore recommend such an amendment of the Constitution as may remove all intermediate agency in the election of the President and Vice-President.