I can not abandon this subject without urging upon you in the most emphatic manner, whatever may be your action on the suggestions which I have felt it to be my duty to submit, to relieve the Chief Executive Magistrate, by any and all constitutional means, from a controlling power over the public Treasury.
Tyler urges Congress to relieve the Executive from excessive control over the Treasury, advocating for checks and balances.
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I feel it to be my duty to communicate, for your consideration, the rejected treaty.
I transmit herewith additional documents having relation to the treaty with China, which may enable the Senate more satisfactorily to act upon it.
The negotiation failed, however, in this particular, out of no disinclination to abide by the terms of the treaty on the part of the Zollverein, but from a belief that it would not fully comport with its dignity to do so.
I must be permitted to disclaim entirely and unqualifiedly the right on the part of the Executive to make any real or supposed defects existing in any State constitution or form of government the pretext for a failure to enforce the laws…
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