You will at once transfer to General Ulysses S. Grant, who has this day been authorized and empowered to act as Secretary of War ad interim, all records, books, and other property now in your custody and charge.
Executive Order—Suspending from Office Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War
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The danger of a defeat of the people's choice in an election by the House of Representatives remains unprovided for in the Constitution.
My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction.
With these brief suggestions the bill is respectfully returned, and the consideration of Congress invited to the accompanying preamble and resolutions.
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.
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