Andrew Johnson: “On being relieved from the command of the Department of the Missouri by Major-General P. H. Sheridan, Major-General…”

With these brief suggestions the bill is respectfully returned, and the consideration of Congress invited to the accompanying preamble and resolutions.

Strongly impressed with the truth of these views, I feel called upon by an imperative sense of duty to revive substantially the recommendation so often and so earnestly made by President Jackson.

I transmit the accompanying communications from the Secretary of the Interior, together with the papers to which they have reference.

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.