U.S. GRANT.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 1, 1875_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:
I have the honor to lay before Congress a communication of the Secretary
of War relative to the action taken in issuing certain supplies to the
suffering people in Kansas and Nebraska, in consequence of the drought
and grasshopper plague, and to respectfully request that such action be
approved.
U.S. GRANT.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 8, 1875_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
Herewith I have the honor to send, in accordance with the resolution of
the Senate of the 3d instant, all the information in my possession not
heretofore furnished relating to affairs in the State of Arkansas.
I will venture to express the opinion that all the testimony shows that
in the election of 1872 Joseph Brooks was lawfully elected governor of
that State; that he has been unlawfully deprived of the possession of
his office since that time; that in 1874 the constitution of the State
was by violence, intimidation, and revolutionary proceedings overthrown
and a new constitution adopted and a new State government established.
These proceedings, if permitted to stand, practically ignore all
rights of minorities in all the States.
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