Arizona miner., 1866-01-24
KING S. W0OLSEY,
 Chairman Council Committee. DANIEL II. STICKNEY, Chairman House Committee.
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

The message of President Johnson opens with the customary expression of gratitude to God, pays passing tribute to the memory of his martyred predecessor, and, discussing the powers of the constitution of the United States, says: "It is not the right of a State government to renounce it's own place in the Union The largest liberty is to be main tained in the discussion of the acts of the federal government, but there is no appeal from it's laws, except to the various branches of the government, to itself or to the people The sovereignty of the States is the language of the oonfederacy and not the language of the constitution.n The President takes the ground that all acts of secession were, from the outset, null and void ,-as States cannot commit treason, nor screen individual citizens who have committed treason. For the pur- pose of restoring the authority of the general gogernment, Provisional Governors were ap- pointed Legislatures assembled, and Repres- entatiyes and Senators chosen to the Con gress of the United States-a policy attended with some risk. "The power of pardon D says the President, Sis exclusively vested in the executive branch of the government of the United States. In exercising that power I have taken every precaution to connect with it the dearest recognition Of the binding force of the laws of the United States, and the unanaiifiaa acknowledgement of the g-ea; change of condition in regard to slavery which has grown out of the war"
 The message expresses the conviction that the adoption of the amendment to the con stitution, sbolishing slavery, will unite the United States beyond all power of disruption It urges the summary punishment of traitors
 In regard Q the extension of the elective franchise to the freedmen, the message eX- presses the belief thstsuch action would have been an assumption of power which nothing m the constitution or laws of the United States would have warranted. and suggests the settlement of the question by the States severally.
 The reports Of the Departments are re- terred to, ana m dis'ussing that of the Secre- tary oi the ireaNury the President pays particular sttehuoh to The financial "situa- ton, recouihehuihg the people to be con stantly on their guard to lionidate debts contracted in paper currency and by con ducting business nearly on a ,ash basis o, cash credits, to hold themselves orenared tr return to a specie standard; an6 showing that the gradual reduction of the cn,rapc,, ;s the only measure that can save the b,s;vaSs of the country from disastrous cslan ;,ies The fact that the expenditures for the hscal year ending the Both of June, 1866, will er. eeed the receipts by the enormous sum of on, hundred and twelve million one hundred an, ninety-four dollars, as estimated by the Sec retaFy, calls for comment and explanation considering the system of retreRehment whic was naugurated at the close of the war.
 The President declines the proposition ( Great Britain for the formation of a join commission to settle the mutual claims be tween the two countries, and, virtual affirming tho Monroe doctrine, says the cor respondence between the United States an France on the subject Will, at the prope time be laid before Congress ses rra