The Constitution expressly declares that--If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law in like manner as it he had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law.
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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.
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For these objections, and many others that might be presented, I cannot approve this bill, and therefore return it for the action of Congress required in such cases by the Federal Constitution.
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…
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