Special Message

To the Senate:

I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury, to whom I had referred the resolution of the Senate of the 27th December last, showing that the information* called for by that resolution can not be furnished from authentic data.

JOHN TYLER.

*Statement of the expenditures of the Government each year from its organization up to the present period, and when and for what purpose these expenditures were made.