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ir.g so. I presume tT.at tlie President has
a&ed th; part of a cand'd, honed man, the
gentleman prcfutr.cs the - reverfc. Ihe
suggestion ihat this houle, which has the
right of originating the appro
priation of money, has no riglit to be in
formed of the application of it, is so novel
and extraordinary, so inconfiltent with
every idea of propriety and good govern
ment that it requires no reply.
Did the Secretary apply the money bor
rowed in Europ* agreeably to the legal
Appropriations of the President ? No he
did not; though some of the gentlemen do
not acknowledge thus, yet the Secretary
has clearly acknowledged it himfelf and
has filled his reporls with laboured and in
genious apologies for so doing; he has fug
gifted a variety of motives, and taken infi
nite liberty to charm us with the mighty
public advantages resulting from his doing
io. He acknowledges having drawn to
this country and applied in Europe to uses
for which other mcnies were appropria
ted, 3 millions of dollars ; out of this he
has paid upwards of 400,000 dollars of the
French debt to St Domingo. Ido not
complain of paying the interest due in
Europe out of the money obtained there ;
1 he gentlemen apply the force of their ar
guments with great attention to support
or apologize for this part of the Secreta
ry's conduit, as if againfl this only the
charge in the resolution lay. But we dc
not object to applying that money in Hoi
land, which ought to have been brought
here, if the money which according to the
appropriation should have gone to Hol
land had been put to the use here for which
the other was intended, a simple exchange
of money for the ptirpofe of conveniency
and (Economy is properly one of those cases
to which ministerial discretion may solely
be extended ; but the question is, whcthei
the money has been replaced. The amount
of money h.is not been applied to the uses
intended, consequently the appropriation
has been disregarded. It is acknowledged
that tho' there were upwatds of 1,30000 c
dollars of the domestic finking fund, and
upwards of 2,300,000 dollars drawn from
Europe, besides the monies applied to the
relief of St. Domingo, yet when ihefe
enquiries began, there was not 1,000,00 c
dollars applied to the redemption of the
public debt, and even yet the whole of the
domestic appropriation has not been ap
plied to the finking fund, notwithilanding
that the public debt now is and has for
some time been und;r par. We have it
on record, that the Secretary never in
formed the commiflioners of draughts he
made on Europe, although the fund was
cxclufively to be at their disposal.
However, I will not detain the com
mittee with minute llatements, they are
not nrreflary ; the Secretaiy has acknow
ledged that he drew more money from
Europe than the law authorised him to do:
that he was influenced to do so by motives
not contemplated in the law, and had ei
ther applied it or drawn from Europe with
the design of applying it to uses not au
thorized, and that he has broken in upon
the fund appropriated to the discharge of
the French d bt. Indeed the delay of in
formation, the receiving it piecemeal, the
abundance of reafonin s and apologies,
when only simple and plain statements
were required, renders a scrutiny of all his
calculations a work of time and labour ;
theiefor.-, I have contented myfelf with
the facts that the Secretary acknowledges
and vindicates on the questionable ground
of policy. It remains to be enquired, had
the Secretary a right to depart from the
directions of the law, in the execution of
it: could he, without a violation of the
law, divert the money from its appropriate
use to purposes foreign to the intention of
the Legislature ? He certainly could not.
The application of appropriation is the
molt {'acred and important tn.ft the legis
lature can confer; if they may be made to
bend to the will or projedling policv of a
financier, there is an end to all security and
confidence. When a legislature makes an
appropriation of a general fund to a variety
of uses, as has been done with refpedt to
the impost, tonnage, excise &c. there is ne
ceflarily a considerable degree of discretion
left with the executive, a« far as refpc&s
preference toone or other of the appropri
ate uses ; but where the money is appro
priated solely to a fpecia! purpose, as 'n
the cafe of the loans, he who executes the
laws has no degree of power over the ap
propr ation. i here is ample room indeed
for discretion in many material circum
flancesrefne&ing them : such as the terms
of contract, the times of diawing, the a-
cents cr-'.ployed, &c. But to afiume or nfc
a power of changing the appropriation, is
afluminga power to repeal the law itfelf
in itb moll efTenttal authority ; it is afTiim
ing that power of dispensing with the laws
uhich produced the late revolution with
Great Britain.
If the will ofthe minifler may controul
and give another diredlion to the will of
the legislature, the sovereign legislative au
thority is transferred from the represen
tatives ofthe people to the temporary mi
ni Her.
If we admit that the miniflerial agent
is not responsible for his conduct, nor fub
je£l to censure, because he is appointed,
uid in this inflance authorized by the Pre
lident, we will introduce the long explo
ded do&rine of Charles I. of Britain,
which brought ruin on the king and go
vernment. However, there is an eflentia]
difference, for in the cafe before us the
authority and inflruftions given by the
Prefldent were agreeable to the law ; but
the conduct of the minifler was contrary
to both.
If. as I have said, the application of mo
ney to its approp iated uses is the mod
sacred and important trufl which the le
gislature can confer, if the person directed
to apply the money applies it to what uf<
he pleales he may by that means command
all the influence and all the force of the
government. I conclude, that betraying
that important trull, partakes of the na
ture of treason.
The queflion before us is not whether
the Secretary has applied it to a good or a
bad use ; whether he, by departing Irom
the l:gal appropriation supported public
credit better, or made a more < onvenient
accommodation to what he or his friends
suppose to be the national interefl. The
conllitution or the laws have not confli
cted him the judge of the national inter
efl ; nor submitted it to his wisdom to
prescribe the degree of public credit which
the nation ought to poflefs. The public
credit and other national interefls ought
to be no other than the legislature wills it
to be, and ought only to be supported by
the means and in the manner thereby pre
fetched ; this is the voice of the conllitu
tion, the voice of the law, and the voice
of reason. The President and both bran
ches of the legislature being the real as
well as the legal representatives of the
people-, it is reasonable that they should
be the sole judges of their interefl. When
this house repeatedly called for information
from the -Secretary, they did not call for
political efiays, nor laboured apologies,
they did not conflitute him the judge, or
the inflru&or of the legislature; theyca
red nothing about his variety of motives
nor extenuve and felf-important plans;
these he might have reserved to embellish
a fyflem of finance, when he would again
be called upon to report to the house ;
they only required an account of his Hew
ardfhip. It was time enough to make a
pologies when he was blamed. Prefacing
his flatements with apologies, and being
irritated at enquiries, and artfully evading
so many calls for information, discovered
a consciousness of blame.
However, I will admit that an execu
tive officer, prefTed by some urgent and
unexpt&ed neceffitv, may be induced to
depart from the authorized path of duty,
and have great merit in so doing. This
may be the cafe with a general of an army
or an admiral of a fleet, and, though more
rarely, even with a financier. But in fucli
emergency, the officer so afling will em
brace the earliefl opportunity to explain
the matter and obtain a juflification whilst
the recent feelings aiifing from theoccafion
advocates his cause in the public mind.
Ha-i the Secretary done so in the pre
sent inflance? No; his conduct has been
the very reverse. Notwithstanding re
peated and explicit calls both the lad ses
sion and this present, the extent of these
tranfadlions was concealed ; a bill paded
this house authorising another loan of
Bco,oco dollars—a second bill was urged
in an unpieeedented manner for a loan *>f
2,c00,0c0 dollars, and tho' this was a fa
vorite bill with the minifler, the very en
quiry after this information induced his
friends to shrink from the business and de
sert the object about which they had dis
covered so much solicitude.
But when the disclosure is made doe 9
theie appear any urgent necessity to julli
fy the measure i A'o—there was none ex
cept what ex'ijled in the unauthorized plans
of the financier. He informs us that h:
thought it necefTary to have always 5 or
60c,0c0 dollars at his command. I ask
what Lw authorized Tiim to think so ?
Did ihe leg id At ii re judge this nectflary ?
A'o. Did lie ever (late the neceffitv to
the leg llatnre ? No, he did not ; and we
know he lias never been backward in re
:ommending revenue systems or in contri
ving uses for revenue. Suppofir.g a sudden
leceffity for money, a riling from a difap
lointfaent of (ome remittance, where was
the boasted aid of the bank which w::s to
(lave adminillered aid in all sudden eraer
jencies ? Could not bills have been fold
For calh when the necessity prcffeH, or
:ould not a temporary loan have been
procured from any of the banks? Certain
ly they could ; loans were obtained at the
bank when necessity required fuel) aid, and
when the public money to a much greater
amount was deposited with the bank. In
short no necessity of Hate purposes, autho
rised by the legislature, exilled. If there
was a necessity at all it must have arisen
Prom another quarter ; moll probably fiom
the bank itfelf and its branches.
A key to this suggestion may be disco
vered from a comparison of the times ol
drawing and the iituation of the bank ?.1
such times
[Here Mr. Findley was called to ordei
tipon the ground of this argument not be
ing confined to the resolution before tht
committee He alledged his argument:
applied (lii&ly to the charges ofviolat ng
the law contained in the resolution ; bul
as a further opportunily of applying the
jrguments ariiing from necessity ant'
Jifcretion, would be given, when a fubfe
quent resolution was brought before the
:ommittee, he would pass it now with s
irtrv few remarks ]
He said the ext mfe cf the power affiim
:d by the Secretary was inconfiflent witfc
-hat public confidence upon which alone
he government was founded ; that it wa:
nconfiftent with public fafety and a go
fernment of laws. That the Secretary
eemed to take the whole government up
in his flnulders & to confidcrall the grea
nterefts thereof to be committed to his pro
ridence. His reports spoke the languagi
jf a Frederick of Prussia or some othe
lefpotic tyrant, who had all the powei
efted in himfelf; not the language of p de
pendant Secretary, under a free and wel
ordered government 1"
[_To be continued.]
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