to the government. It is deeply to be regretted, that this department of the government cannot, upon constitutional grounds, concur with the legislative department in this last measure proposed to attain these desirable objects. Owing to the brief space between the period of the death of my lamented predecessor and my own installation into office, I was, in fact, not left time to prepare and submit a definite recommendation of my own, in my regular message; and since, my mind has been wholly occupied in a most anxious attempt to conform my action to the legislative will. In this communication, I am confined by the constitution to my objections simply to this bill; but the period of the regular session will soon arrive, when it will be my duty, under another clause of the constitution, “to give to the Congress information of the state of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as I shall judge necessary and expedient.” And I most respectfully submit, in a spirit of harmony, whether the present differences of opinion should be pressed further at this time, and whether the peculiarity of my situation does not entitle me to a postponement of this subject to a more auspicious period for deliberation. The two houses of Congress have distinguished themselves, at this extraordinary session, by the performance of an immense mass of labor, at a season very unfavorable both to the health and action; and have passed many laws, which, I trust, will prove highly beneficial to the interests of the country, and fully answer its just expectations. It has been my good fortune and pleasure to concur with them in all measures, except this. And why should our difference on this alone be pushed to extremes? It is my anxious desire that it should not be. I, too, have been burdened with extraordinary labors of late, and I sincerely desire time for deep and deliberate reflection on this the greatest difficulty of my administration. May we not now pause, until a more favorable time, when, with the most anxious hope that the executive and Congress may cordially unite, some measure of finance may be deliberately adopted, promotive of the good of our common country's I will take this occasion to declare that the conclusions to which I have brought myself, are those of a settled con viction, founded, in my opinion, on a just view of the constitution; that, in arriving at it, I have been actuated by no other motive or desire, than to uphold the institutions of the country, as they have come down to us from the hands of our godlike ancestors; and that I shall esteem my efforts to sustain them, even though I perish, more honorable than to win the applause of men by a sacrifice of my duty and my conscience. STATISTICAL TABLES. Extra Sessions of Congress. Congress has been called together on extraordinary occasions nineteen times since the formation of the government, as fol lows: Mr. Van Buren's call was made in the spring of 1837, and Congress was convened the first Monday in September of the same year. President Harrison, on the 17th of March, 1841, called Congress to gether on the last Monday in May, 1841. Governors of the several States and Territories, With their Salaries, Terms of Office, and Expiration of their respective Terms; the Number of Senators and Representatives in the State Legislatures, with their respective Terms. Gov. States. Sena tors. Years, Repre- Governors. Salary. Term, Term expires. years. 750 Oct. 1842 301 233 1 Mass. John Davis, 3,6663 1 Jan. 1843 40 1356 R. I. Samuel W. King, 400 1 May, 1843 101 1 72 } Conn. C. F. Cleavland, 1,100 May, 1843 21 1 208 N. Y. Wm. H. Seward, | 4,000 2 Jan. 1844 32 4 128 | 1 N. J. Wm. Pennington, 2,000 Oct. 1843 141 50 Penn. David R. Porter, 4,000 Jan. 1845 33 3 100 Del. William B. Cooper, 1,333} 3 Jan. 1844 94 21 2 Md. Francis Thomas, 4,200 3 Jan. 1845 21 5 79 1 Va. J. Rutherford, Act. 3,333}| 3 Mar. 1842 32 4 134 1 N. C. J. M. Morehead, 2,000 Jan. 1843 50 2 1202 S. C. J. P. Richardson, 3,500 Dec. 1842 45 4 | 124 | 2 Ga. Ch. J. McDonald, 4,000 Nov. 1843 30 1 207 Ala. Benj. Fitzpatrick, 3,500 2 Dec. 1843 30 3 100 1 Miss. T. Å. Tucker, 3,000 1 2 Jan. 1844 304 91 2 La. A. B. Roman, 7,500 4 Jan. 1843 174 50 2 Ark. Archibald Yell, 2,000 4 Nov. 1844 174 54 | 2 Tenn. James C. Jones, 2,000 2 Oct. 1843 25 2 75 | 2 Ken. Robert P. Letcher, 2,500 4 Sept. 1844 38 4 100 1 Ohio, Thomas Corwin, 1,500 2 Dec. 1842 36 2 72 1 Mich. John S. Barry, 2,000 2 Jan. 1844 18 2 53 2 Ind. Samuel Bigger, 1,500 3 Dec. 1843 30 3 62 2 Ill. Thomas Carlin, 1,500 4 Dec. 1842 404 Mo. Thomas Reynolds, 2,000 4 Noy. 1844 18 4 49 2 Territo. Flor. Richard K. Call, 2,500 | 3 Dec. 1844 11 2 29 1 Wise. James D. Doty, 2,500 3 May, 1844 13 4 26 2 Iowa, John Chambers, | 2,500 3 ) July, 1844 | 13/ 2 26 1 In all the states, except New Jersey, Virginia, and South Carolina, the governor is voted for by the people; and, no one has a majority of all the votes, in the states in which such a majority is required, the legislature elects to the office of governor one of the candidates voted for by the people. ANNUAL EXPENDITURE, AND LOSSES BY PUBLIC DEFALCATIONS, UNDER EACH ADMINISTRATION, FROM 1789 to 1837. Lands, from 4th March, 1789, to 4th March, 1837; exhibiting, also, the Number of Officers employed in collecting the same; the No. of Defaulters in each Year. Amount of Defalcation in each Year. Amount of Receipts in each Year. Year. Collectors of Customs. Collectors of Internal Revenue and Direct Tax. Receivers of Land Sales. Whole Number of Defaulters in each Year. Collectors of Collectors of Internal Aggregate Aggregate Period. Whole Number employed in each Year. Average Number employed in each Period. Ratio per cent. of Defaulters to Average employed. Receivers of Public Money from Sales of Lands. Ratio of Loss per Head to Av. erage employed. Internal Reve- Ratio of Loss per $100 to ag. Igregate Receipts in each Period. Customs. Tax. 17891 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794 1 1795 31 1796 31 1797 4 17981 1 1799) 3 1800 1801 1802) 4 1803 1 18041 21 $ 182.23 3 7,306.08 9,855.741 35 $ 4,399,473,09 3,443,070.85 $ 208,942.81 4,255,306.56 337,705.70 4,801,065.28 274,089.62 5,588,461.26 337,755.36 7,549,649.65 575,491.45 7,106,061.93 644,357.95 94 6,610,449.31 779,136.44 10,750,778.93 1,582,376.81 12,438,235.74 828,464.33 10,479,417.61 287,058.89| 36,219.05 94 100 9. 362.19 11,098,565,33] 101,139,731 2 $4,836.13 22,642,497.45 003 83,540.60 11,963.11 443.75 33,985,647.42.72 104 16,389.11 11,212.81 11.56 6,771.78 1,833.79 31 318 102 12,936,487.041 43,631.06 540,193.801 18065 45,955.49 2,090.26, 102 14,667,698.17 75,865.31 765,245.73 18071 3 3 23,179.04 102 15,845,521.61 47,783.96 466,163.27 1808 3 251 28 157,865.11 8,806.17 247,278.70 107 10338.83 2,400.76 16,363,550.58 27,369.94 647,939.06 62,427,449.53 .39 194 7,296,020.58 11,561.70 442,252.33 18101 1 8 107,011.08 6,090.16 105 8,583,309.31 19,879.31 696,548.82 1811 3 53 56 41,130.25 10,876.57 110 13,313,222,73 9,962.61 1,040,237.53 1812 8 8 3,867.70 172,738.12 110|10776.63 1,664.00 8,958,777.53 5,762.28 710,427.78 41,087,962.51.43 1813 41 12,544.29 110 13,224,623.25 8,560.56 835,655.14 1814 3 10 2,951.61 2,300.18 5,998,772.08 3,882,482.18 1,135,971.09 60 1815) 2 10 38,640.55 5,050.69 320 7,282,942.226,840,732.48 1,287,959.28 86,870.37 320 267 13.48| 330.56 36,306,874.88 9,378,343.40 1,717,985.03 87,900,901.59 .10 321 26,283,348.494,512,287.81 1,991,226.06 1818 81 1 9 36,893.45 23,939.96 326 17,176,385.00 1,219,612.56 2,606,564.77 18191 21 31 34 11,483.99 84,883.48 5,967.32 119 20,283,608.76 313,244.41 3,274,422.78 129 13,004,447.15 98,376.68 1,212,966.46 131 17,589,761.94 88,617.27| 1,803,581.54 128 916,523.10 133 20,098,713.45 28,102.20 1,216,090.56 1826 3 2 6 73,170.35 18,174.24 21,458.60 133 23,341,331.77 28,228.69 1,393,785.09 1827) 2 3 3 81 1,412.60 1,381.67| 12,670.07 133 19,712,283.291 22,512.58 1,495,845.26 22,681,965.91 25,837.79 1,517,175.13 137 21,922,391.39 29,141.21 2,329,356.14 1,702.45 434.72 142 24,224,441.77 17,439.52 3,219,815.48 3,805.17 184,444.65 142 139 18.70 1,326.94 28,405,237.24 18,421.78 2,623,381.03107,065,604.39.17 1833) 1 154 29,032,508.91 3,153.12 3,967,682.55 132.00 16,214,957.15 4,215.89 4,857,600.69 164 19,391,310.59 14,722.81|14,757,600.75 1836) 2 6 3,755.66 122,929.03 214,648.03 169 161 11.18 1,335.08 23,409,940.53 1,098.7924,877,179.86 136,531,971.64.15 Total 87|243/27 357|1,198,979.91 442,265.76/397,304.142,038,549.81 682,957,754.47|34,995,340.02|89,087,314.771807,040,439.26) .25 134 * 1816 21 6 EUMWA AWB Uvocow Ooov. over uw co es o T er como os EE. 08005 were 18051 21 9,382.63) 638.81 1,998.34 655.26 1831 |