Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-06-19

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States-and further, that $500, part OF
this fun of II, 76a, was paid by James
Munroe to Mr.. La Fayette.in France,
and that the payment OF the balance for
public Objects is tulIy a/crrtamed." vi
de document marked c.
The immenie unaccounted for balances
in the war and'navy departments, we have
leen changing their Gze like another Pro-
teus. Now fwelling like mountains, then
linking into mere triAes,; now nominal,
now real: now apparent, now actual.
We mutt alto remember, that this fate
ment was made twelve months after it had
become the duty of the prelent adminiara-
ton to urge the accountants on to fettle-
ment, and that therefore, the blame for
the delay, if any there be, lies upon them.
Mark too that, {" a comfortable portion"
of thefe enormous balances is Indefinitely
aated TO have been reduced. Let the COM
mittee aniwer why, this !" comfortable
portion was not as n1inutely deelared in
the report as the original balance.
In reply to the charge againA Mr.. Stod-
defs, for .purchafng navy YARDS, we have
leen an act Of Congress appropriating mo-
ney for building fix Hlips of the line. A
grant Of the principal carries with it a
grant of the Incidents. MIR. Sloddert
himfelf tell US, that there was rot one
yard in the United States, public or pri-
vate, fit for building thips Of fuch fze,"
and that heretofore more expence has
been incurred in the improvements made
on private property, and ufelels TO the pub
lie when the ihips were fnilhed, and in the
employment of labourers, Whole feryices,
under different y item, might havesbeen
d ipenied with, thar the whole colt ofthele
Tx navy yards. - Let US remember ALTO,
that the committee refufed to let the letter
from Mr.. Stoddert, which contained tree
ttatements, and for which they had them
ielves called, accompany their report to
Congteis.
We have feen that the laboratory was.
built out of the furplus Of an appropriation
tor the quarter matters department.: that
1t is not ufed, or intended to be uied as
barracks, but as central place of depo-
lit tor arms, ammunition and military
ttores that the United States, befdes
the manifold advantages neceGarily Incl
dent 70 iuch an Establishment. is relieved
from the payment Of an immenie annual
rent, and have their property infinitely
better iecured. Let Us not forget again
to mention one reafon, which will have
more effect on fome minds, than every
other-4o, 900 dollars of the coa Of thele
buildings have been expended fnce the In
itallation of Mr.. JeHerfon, without any
further or other authority, than the for
mer administration poAeGed.
In the charge for the expenditure by
the PRECEDENT, through the war depart
ment, of hxteen hundred dollars, we have
ieen that the comlrittee feigned to be far
prlfed at his NOT having paid regard to
laws subsequently enacted. I is preium-
ed that no man will doubt that it may be
equally necehary to ule monies in this
manner In our intercourse with the Indian
tubes, as IN our negotiations with civil
lized nations the fun is in itlelf fulfil
cient guarantee that it was actually ex-
pended 10 aid of the public welfare any
lnflnuations Of the committee to the con.
trary notwithstanding.
| truf it is iuficiently clear that MIR. Ira
ey's. agency, however it might APPEAR, was
fctin tact incumbent with the provifons Of
the Contribution. 1t is not charged that Mr..
racy did not fulhl as many of The objects O.
bis milton as he might have done within thu
time allotted him. His drawing pay in two
Capacities for ieven,een days, is in itlelf trif.
iing,i butts authorized by euftom. The final
tharge.needs but to be again fated TO be
gain laughed at. Two hundred and egh,
dollars were paid out Of the PUBLIC funds, as
damage awarded againt A1sHenry, formerly
leeretary OF war, for not occupying houi
at the feat OF government, which he had leaf
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