I have examined with care the bill, which originated in the Senate and has been passed by the two Houses of Congress, to amend an act entitled 'An act to establish a bureau for the relief of freedmen and refugees,' and for other purposes.
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My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction.
Feeling constrained to withhold my consent, I herewith return the resolution to the Senate, in which House it originated, with a brief statement of the reasons which have induced my action.
No power exists in the Constitution authorizing the joint resolution or the supposed law--the only difference being that one would be more palpably unconstitutional and revolutionary than the other.
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