Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-02-07
NEGRO JURYTBILL
"a ~
MESSAGE oFTHE PRESIDENT.


Senate the following message
70 he Seaate u he, United SAFES: ~. !, :,
have received the following preamble
and resolution, adopted by the Senate on The
9th instant.
Whereas Senate bin numbered one HIN.
dred and forty-one, and. entitled IAN act fol
the further security OF equal rights in the
District OF Columbia having, at this pre-
seut session, passed both Houses of Congress
was Afterwards ON the eleventh day of De-
lcember, eighteen hupdred nd'sixty-seren,
| duly presented TO the President Of the Uni
ted States for his approval aud signature
aud where more than ten days, exclusive OF
Sundays have since elapsedniu the session
without said bill having been returned,
Ieither approved on disaprrcrctl; Therefore,
/ t'Resolpta, That the President % the Uni-
tel States oe requested 10 inform the Senate
whether said bill has been deli yered,t To and
received BY the Secretary Of State, sns prosi-
I ded by the second section of the act Of the
day of duly, seventeen hun
tdred and eighty nines'is rses - tnrf ~
y AS the net which the resolution mentions
has no relevancy to the subject under IN
qniry, il is presumed that it was the inten-
ton of the Senate 10 refer to tho law of
the ] 9Th September, 1889, the second section
tof which prescribes ,1 81 slH,1s
hTbst Whenever a bill, order, resolution,
or vote OF the Senate and House ,bt sDepre-
Isentatives, having been approved aud signed
by the President of tire United States, or
not having been retained byu him with his
objections, shallbecome law, or take effect,
il shall forthwith thereafter be received BIZ
the said Secretary from.tbe President; and
whenever a bin, order, resolution, or vote
shall be returned by the President with his
Objections, and shall, ON being .recUsidered,
be sgTeed to be passed, and be approved by
two-thirds Of both Houses of Congress, and
thereby become a law TO take effect il shall,
in sich case, be received by the. said Secre-
tary from the President of the Senate, or the
Speaker of the House of Representatives, in
whichsoever House ii shall last have been SO
approved 5rn saIg -tii,ga~ 4 IL T
IN lnas3nuch es the bill ''for the further seeu-
rity ofleqpal rights in the District of Column
,bia, has not become law in either Of the
modes designated in the section allowed QUO
ted, ithas not beer delivered to the Secretary
of State for record and legation. The
bill shall not be returned by tue President
within ten days Sundays excepted after it
shall haze been presented TO HIM the same
shall be- Jaw inlIke manner as ii he signed
the Congress-. by their adjourn
ment, prevent,its return, 10 which case it
shall not be a law" AS stated in the pre-
am1le TO the resolution, The bill to which it
refers was presen ed for my approval ON the
llth day OF December, 1867. !. On the 10th
of the same month, aud before the expiration
of the.ten days after the presentation of the
bill to the President, the two Houses, ia ac-
cordance with q concurrent resolution, adop-
ted on tue Sd Of December, adjourned until
the 9th of January, 1868. Congress, by
their adjournment thus prevented the return
of the bill within the time prescribed by the
Constitution, and it was therv core left in the
precise condition in which. that ,instrument
positively declares bill shall not be a
law 80. =. 4, ~ -. -.
If the adjournment in December did. not
cause the failure n this bill because not such
40 adjournmeht as is contemplated by the
Con titution in the clause which have cited,
il must follow that such was the nature OF
the adjouTnments during the past year, on
the 30th day of March. until the frst We'd
nesday of July, and from the. Doth of July
until ihe 2lst of November. Other bills will
therefore be affected by the decision which
may be rendered in this case, among them
one having the same title as that named in
the resolution, and containing similar provis-
ions, which, passed by both Houses in The
month of July last, failed to become a law
by reason of the adjournment of Congress
teiore ten days for its consideration had been
allowed the Executive. .-.. L.. Il
..g ANDREW JOHNSON.
WASHINGTON January %, 1868. ..,