Andrew Johnson: “This instrument can not be legally binding upon the United States unless sanctioned by the Senate.”

In reply to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 1st instant, I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of the Interior, in reference to a treaty now being negotiated between the Great and Little Osage Indians and…

No report upon this subject has yet been received by me from the War Department.

I transmit to Congress a copy of a dispatch from the United States consul at Elsinore, and of an instruction from the Secretary of State to the United States minister at Copenhagen, relative to an alleged practice of the Danish authorities…

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.