Rebel States, expenses under act for the more efficient government of the. Message Reconstruction. Letter from the Secretary of War relative to Reconstruction, relative to appropriation to carry out. Letter from the Secretary of War... Reconstruction. Message from the President of the United States communicating Revenue law. General customs Revenue from distilled spirits. Revenue, frauds on. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury relative to the frauds Revenue Board, Metropolitan. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury relative to. River, Illinois, survey of the. Letter from the Secretary of War relative to S. State Department, relative to filing in the department of an act to provide for the T. Treasurer of the United States, transmitting account of receipts and disbursements 7 4 Treasury Department, relative to the payment of bounties to soldiers, &c. Letter 17 18 Treasury Department, transmitting statement of the number of officers of the customs Treasury Department, relative to the organization of the Metropolitan Revenue W. War Department, transmitting a statement of contracts made on account of the med- War Department, communicating report of General Wilson relative to the survey of War Department, transmitting information relative to the execution of the recon- War Department, transmitting communication from the Paymaster General relative War Department, relative to appropriation necessary to carry out the reconstruction War Department, relative to the flogging of a civilian at Fort Sedgwick. Letter to the.. Washington Monument Association. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior relative port of 35 36 MARCH 4, 1867.-Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. To the House of Representatives: The act entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending June 30, 1868, and for other purposes," contains provisions to which I must call attention. These provisions are contained in the second section, which in certain cases virtually deprives the President of his constitutional functions as commanderin-chief of the army; and in the sixth section, which denies to ten States of the Union their constitutional right to protect themselves, in any emergency, by means of their own militia. These provisions are out of place in an appropriation act. I am compelled to defeat these necessary appropriations if I withhold my signature from the act. Pressed by these considerations, I feel constrained to return the bill with my signature, but to accompany it with my protest against the sections which I have indicated. WASHINGTON, March 2, 1867. ANDREW JOHNSON. |