Andrew Johnson: “I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Navy,”

My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction.

I transmit herewith, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 16th of December last, a report from the Secretary of State of the 6th instant.

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

The foregoing views have long been entertained by me.