US Presidency
1854

To the Senate of the United States: I hasten to respond briefly to the resolution of the Senate of this date, requesting the President to inform the Senate, if in his opinion it be not incompatible with the public interest, whether anything has arisen since the date of his message to the House of Representatives of the 15th of March last concerning our relations with the Government of Spain which in his opinion may dispense with the suggestions therein contained touching the propriety of provisional measures ' by Congress to meet any exigency that may arise in the recess of Congress affecting those relations.