Andrew Johnson: “As the amount of this valuation can not legally be drawn from the Treasury without authority from Congress, I recommend…”

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

The danger of a defeat of the people's choice in an election by the House of Representatives remains unprovided for in the Constitution.

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.

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.