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ANOTHER CHAPTER OF HISTORY.

ANoIiikR CHATTER OF HISTORY.
The following Message from the President of
the United States 20 the senate was received, aud
read IN tina, body, At the opening Of yesterday :.
sitting:
To n'' ScnIie ef hs United Sfaies.
Having reason 10 believe that certain nas-
sases confined in my Message and Protest.
transmitted To the Senate on the l7th instant
may De misunderstood. I think IL proper 10
STATE that II was not my intention Ia DENY. an
.ne said Message, the power and right Of the
legislative Department TO prov idc by law for
the custody, safe keeping. and disposition of
The public money and property Of the United
States.
Although ] am we'll satisfied that such \
construction IS not warranted by any thing
contained IN that Message, get aware, from
experience, that detached passages Of an ar
gonentatIve document, when disconnected
from their context and considered " ithou,
reference 20 previous limitations, and the
particular positions they were intended to re-
iute or To establish, may be made TO bear a
construction varying altogether from the sem
hments really entertained aud intended 20 be
expressed; and deeply solicitous that nv
views on this point should not, either now or
hereafter, be inexperienced, Z have de emed
u que TO the gravity Of the subject, TO the
great interests II involves, and to the senate
rs well as 10 myself, 10 embrace the earliest
opportunity to mako this communication.
admit, without reserve, as have beforc
done, the constitutional power of the Legs
iature 10 provide by law the place or places
IN winch the public money or property IS TO
be deposited; and to make such revulatiors
concerning ITS custody. removal, or DISPOSE
lion, as they may think proper 10 enact. Nor
do claim for the Executive any right 20 the
possession or disposition OF the public proper-
" or treasure, or any authority to interfere
WIN The same, except when such possession.
disposition, or authority, - given To him b,
Ia" nor do claim the right la any manner
10 supervise or interfere with the person en-
trusted With such property or treasure. unless
he be an officer whose appointment. under
the Constitution and laws Is deyoIye,I unon
The President alone, or in CONJUNCTION with the
senate, and for whose conduct he Is cou,tilu-
tonally responsible.
As the Message and Protest referred TO ma
appear on the Journal Of the Senate and re-
main among the recorded docu.<nt. of The
nation, am unwilling that opinions should
De imputed TO me, even through mi-construc-
ZION, which are not contained 10 u ; and more
particularly am solicitous that NAV not be
supposed Ia claim for myself, or for NV sue.
eessors, any power or authority not clearly
granted, by the Constitution and laws IN The
President. have, therefore. respectfuII, 70
request that this commune alton may BIZ con
sidered part of that Message, and that n
may be entered Herewith on the Journals of
the Senate. ANDREW IACKSoS.
April II, 1884.
HIS Message g''e rise a, once 20 an s,.i,ns,e,,
(housh ineidcn,4I) debate; ADD the ~lol. Ia,
~as consumed ia discussion growing ia, If H..
or Sinsi Message and Il,is sne,.iactt to -.