SPECIAL MESSAGES.
MARCH 11, 1867.
To the Senate of the United States:
I transmit to the Senate, in answer to their resolution of the 28th of July last, a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying documents.[18]
ANDREW JOHNSON.
WASHINGTON CITY, March 13, 1867.
To the Senate of the United States:
I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty concluded this day between the United States and the chiefs and headmen of the Kickapoo tribe of Indians.
A letter of the Secretary of the Interior and a copy of a letter of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, explanatory of said treaty, are also herewith transmitted.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
WASHINGTON CITY, D.C., March 13, 1867.
To the Senate of the United States:
I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty concluded in this city on the 15th instant [ultimo] between the United States and the Stockbridge and Munsee tribes of Indians.
A letter of the Secretary of the Interior of the 25th instant [ultimo] and a copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of the 19th instant [ultimo], explanatory of the said treaty, are also herewith transmitted.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
WASHINGTON CITY, D.C., March 13, 1867.
To the Senate of the United States:
I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty concluded in this city on the 23d instant [ultimo] between the United States and the following tribes of Indians, viz: The Senecas, the confederated Senecas and Shawnees, the Quapaws, the Ottawas, the confederated Peorias, Kaskaskias, Weas and Piankeshaws, and the Miamis.
A letter of the Secretary of the Interior of the 26th instant [ultimo] and a copy of a letter of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of the 25th instant [ultimo], explanatory of said treaty, are also herewith transmitted.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
WASHINGTON CITY, D.C., March 13, 1867.
To the Senate of the United States:
I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty concluded on the 2d March, 1866, between the United States and the Shawnee tribe of Indians of Kansas.
A letter of the Secretary of the Interior of the 6th instant and a copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of the 2d instant, explanatory of the said treaty, are also herewith transmitted.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
WASHINGTON CITY, D.C., March 13, 1867.
To the Senate of the United States:
I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty concluded on the 27th instant [ultimo] between the United States and the Pottawatomie tribe of Indians.
A letter of the Secretary of the Interior of the 28th instant [ultimo] and a copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of the 27th instant [ultimo], explanatory of the said treaty, are also herewith transmitted.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
WASHINGTON CITY, D.C., March 13, 1867.
To the Senate of the United States:
I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon a treaty concluded in this city on the 13th instant [ultimo] between the United States and the Kansas or Kaw tribe of Indians.
A letter of the Secretary of the Interior of the 25th instant [ultimo] and a copy of a communication of the 19th instant [ultimo] from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, explanatory of said treaty, are also herewith transmitted.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
WASHINGTON CITY, March 13, 1867.
To the Senate of the United States:
I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty this day concluded between the United States and the Cherokee Nation of Indians, providing for the sale of their lands in Kansas, known as the "Cherokee neutral lands."
A letter of the Secretary of the Interior and accompanying copy of a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of this date, in relation to the treaty, are also herewith transmitted.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
WASHINGTON, March 14, 1867.
To the House of Representatives:
I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, in further answer to the resolution[19] of the House of Representatives of the 24th of January last.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
WASHINGTON, March 15, 1867.
To the Senate of the United States:
I transmit to the Senate, in further answer to their resolution of the 31st of January last, a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying documents.[20]
ANDREW JOHNSON.
WASHINGTON, March 20, 1867.
To the House of Representatives:
I transmit to the House of Representatives, in answer to their resolution of the 18th instant, a report[21] from the Secretary of State, with its accompanying papers.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
WASHINGTON, March 20, 1867.
To the House of Representatives:
I transmit to the House of Representatives, in answer to their resolution of the 18th instant, a report[22]from the Secretary of State, with an accompanying paper.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
WASHINGTON, March 20, 1867.
To the Senate of the United States:
I transmit to the Senate, in answer to their resolution of the 15th instant, reports[23] from the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury, with accompanying papers.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
WASHINGTON, March 20, 1867.
To the House of Representatives:
In answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 7th instant, relative to the arrest, imprisonment, and treatment of American citizens in Great Britain or its Provinces, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State on the subject.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 21, 1867.
To the Senate of the United States:
I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty concluded on the 19th of March, 1867, between the United States and the Chippewa tribe of Indians of the Mississippi.
A letter of the Secretary of the Interior and a copy of a letter of Hon. Lewis V. Bogy, special commissioner, of the 20th instant, explanatory of the said treaty, are also herewith transmitted.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 30, 1867.
To the House of Representatives:
In giving my approval to the joint resolution providing for the expenses of carrying into full effect an act entitled "An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States," I am moved to do so for the following reason: The seventh section of the act supplementary to the act for the more efficient government of the rebel States provides that the expenses incurred under or by virtue of that act shall be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. This provision is wholly unlimited as to the amount to be expended, whereas the resolution now before me limits the appropriation to $500,000. I consider this limitation as a very necessary check against unlimited expenditure and liabilities. Yielding to that consideration, I feel bound to approve this resolution, without modifying in any manner any objections heretofore stated against the original and supplemental acts.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
WASHINGTON, March 30, 1867.
To the Senate of the United States:
I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty between the United States and His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias upon the subject of a cession of territory by the latter to the former, which treaty was this day signed in this city by the plenipotentiaries of the parties.
ANDREW JOHNSON.