to the Constitution became a law December 18, 1865, with Mr. Johnson’s concurrence.  The first breach between the President and the party in power was the veto of the Freedmen’s Bureau bill, in February, 1866, which was designed to protect the negroes.  March 27 vetoed the civil-rights bill, but it was passed over his veto.  In a message of June 22, 1866, opposed the joint resolution proposing the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution.  In June, 1866, the Republicans in Congress brought forward their plan of reconstruction, called the “Congressional plan,” in contradistinction to that of the President.  The chief features of the Congressional plan were to give the negroes the right to vote, to protect them in this right, and to prevent Confederate leaders from voting.  January 5, 1867, vetoed the act giving negroes the right of suffrage in the District of Columbia, but it was passed over his veto.  An attempt was made to impeach the President, but it failed.  In January, 1867, a bill was passed to deprive the President of the power to proclaim general amnesty, which he disregarded.  Measures were adopted looking to the meeting of the Fortieth and all subsequent Congresses immediately after the adjournment of the preceding.  The President was deprived of the command of the Army by a rider to the army appropriation bill, which provided that his orders should only be given through the General, who was not to be removed without the previous consent of the Senate.  The bill admitting Nebraska, providing that no law should ever be passed in that State denying the right of suffrage to any person because of his color or race, was vetoed by the President, but passed over his veto.  March 2, 1867, vetoed the act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States, but it was passed over his veto.  It embodied the Congressional plan of reconstruction, and divided the Southern States into five military districts, each under an officer of the Army not under the rank of brigadier-general, who was to exercise all the functions of government until the citizens had “formed a constitution of government in conformity with the Constitution of the United States in all respects.”  On the same day vetoed the tenure-of-office act, which was also passed over his veto.  It provided that civil officers should remain in office until the confirmation of their successors; that the members of the Cabinet should be removed only with the consent of the Senate, and that when Congress was not in session the President could suspend but not remove any official, and in case the Senate at the next session should not ratify the suspension the suspended official should be reinducted into his office.  August 5, 1867, requested Edwin M. Stanton to resign his office as Secretary of War.  Mr. Stanton refused, was suspended, and General Grant was appointed Secretary of War ad interim.  When Congress met, the Senate refused to ratify the suspension.  General Grant then resigned, and Mr.