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the Honorable Secretary then left the delegation in his office, to make up their minds on the subject, until his return from a visit to the President; and upon his return, the delegation having prepared the letter of the 28th February in his office, placed into his hands, who then assured the delegation that their propositions should be cheerfully submitted, and that the President had again expressed himself disproved to "go as far as the Senate." Upon these distinct assurances and understanding, - the delegation (unclear) leave of the Hon; Secry and in leaving the norm, he placed into my hands the written memorandum of that date, and remarked. That I could read it at my own leisure. The bearing of of this paper I have never been able to see into; these of our friends who read it, were no less puzzled than myself.- Soon after this, the delegation were informed that and interview had taken place between (unclear) (Schemenhorn?), Currey and Ridge, with the President, but the object and import of which were not communicated. After this, it was stated that the President would not submit the propositions of the delegation before the Senate; but that the Secretary of war had requested the Indian Committee to bring up the question before the Senate, that the Senators considered such a course to be informal, consequently a correspondence between the Hon; Chariman (unclear): Secry of war (unclear);- the latter giving it as the (unclear) of the President, that it would be unconstitutional for him to advise with the Senate in reference to the subject, and the former insisting on the constitutionality of the course and referring to an instance in which General Washington had conferred with the Senate on the basis of the Treaty of Holston, 1791, between the United States, this nation, as a precedent (unclear).- It has been stated that certain Senators had waited on the President and urged upon him the expediency of his conferring with the Senate on the subject of our propositions, with the hope that such a course might lead to a speedy and final settlement of the Cherokee difficulties; but that the president had