Andrew Johnson: “I have the honor to communicate an additional report of the Secretary of State relating to the discovery, and arrest of…”

I transmit herewith, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 16th of December last, a report from the Secretary of State of the 6th instant.

The foregoing views have long been entertained by me.

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

My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction.