To the House of Representatives1Jump to section
In answer to the Resolution of the House of Representatives of yesterday on the subject of the Joint Resolution of the 4th. of last month relative to Mexico, I transmit a Report from the Secretary of State to whom the Resolution was referred.
Washington. 24th. May, 1864. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Annotation
[1] DS, DNA RG 233, House Executive Document No. 92. The resolution of the House, May 23, 1864, requested copies of ``any explanations given by the government of the United States [to France] respecting the sense and bearing of the joint resolution relative to Mexico, which passed the House of Representatives unanimously on the 4th of April, 1864.'' Seward's report of May 24, 1864, transmitted his correspondence with Minister William L. Dayton (April 7 and 22, May 2, 9, and 21, 1864) instructing Dayton to inform the French government that the joint resolution of April 4, 1864, expressing opposition to recognition of a monarchy in Mexico, would have to pass the Senate and be approved by the president, that it arose in the House and not with the executive, and that in event of any change in U.S. policy the French government would be duly notified. See Thirty-eighth Congress, First Session, House Executive Document No. 92.