Political Quotes

I herewith transmit to the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty concluded at Fort Sumner, N. Mex., on the 1st instant, between Lieutenant-General W. T. Sherman and Colonel Samuel F. Tappan, on the part of the United…

Until further orders from the President, you will assign no officer to the permanent command of the Military Division of the Missouri.

I transmit to Congress the accompanying documents, which I deem it proper to state are all the papers* that have been submitted to the President relating to the proceedings to which they refer in the States of South Carolina and Arkansas.

I have been unable to find in the Constitution of the United States any warrant for the exercise of the authority thus claimed by Congress.