Andrew Johnson: “Let the within recommendations of the Secretary of the Interior be carried into effect.”

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.

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.

I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 15th instant, upon the subject of Messrs. Warren and Costello, who have been convicted and sentenced to penal imprisonment in…

I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and a report from the Secretary of the Navy, with accompanying papers.