Andrew Johnson: “It is unreasonable to expect a return to a sound currency so long as the Government by continuing to issue irredeemable…”

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.

The foregoing views have long been entertained by me.

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