President Buchanan sends his annual message to the United States Senate

President James Buchanan sent his annual message to the Senate of the United States on this day.  The House of Representatives did not receive a copy since it was not yet organized, being embroiled in a heated partisan debate over the election of the Speaker.  (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, Lee and Company, 1861), 406.
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Type
    Lawmaking/Litigating
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