James Monroe: “To the House of Representatives”

From the view which I have taken of these reports I contemplate results of incalculable advantage to our Union

I transmit to the Senate a convention, signed by the plenipotentiaries of the United States and of the Republic of Colombia at Bogota on the 10th of December, 1824, together with the documents appertaining to the negotiation of the same…

This power can be granted only by an amendment to the Constitution and in the mode prescribed by it.

I transmit to the Senate, for the exercise of its constitutional power, a treaty lately concluded at the Indian Springs.