Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-07-21

taken In the building OF the trlgateSs ex.
cept legal authority ought to have been
taken with the ievcnty fours.
The military arienal at Philadelphia,
the gentleman faid, was built TO keep the
flores in with more fafety, than they could
be kept in private flores, in the neighbour
hood of which frequently fires occurred.
All this might be truth, but if thefe were
facts, Mr.. Nicholfon, would afk, why
were not congrels applied to, to fay whe-
.ther they would take tile riGs, or whether
build flores, for the more fate depoflt OF
the public Goresl But the money which
built this military arfenal, or laboratory
(lnore properly lie believed it wculd he
found was taken from the Quarter Glai-
tiers department. Now was il ever tho't
that this fund mould hpply refources to
build laboratory. Was the Quarter
Matters department eyer appropriated to,
for other than the parpofrs exprefed or
intended! Nolaboratory can be built, but
by the authority of the fate where erect.
ed, but where is the fate authority or
where the appropriated fund for this pur-
pole. Upon examination, the committee
could fee no authority to appropriate or
apply public money for this purpoie, and
yet they found, that one hundred and thlr-
ty FIVE ,houfand dollars, were taken from
tas Quarter Matters department. 'f's
military arlenal! The committee couia
Zee no authority for the e~fEnce' anu 's'a'
fact they have aessu.
As = ne reGgnation Of Mr.. M'Henry, !
.unsther voluntary or at the requef of the
prefldent, the committee faw no reafon why
the government lhould provide the houle.
for Mr.. M'Henry at Georgetown. II
might be fuppofed that neither that officer
nor his friends, would have thanked the
committee for reporting any reafons, which
might have caufed his removal from Office:
They had nothing to do with it, having
ne document upon the fubjett.
The account OF Mr.. Tracy is next vim
Dictated, and all the gentleman appears to
regret here, is that Mr.. Dawfon's account
is not inherited in the report. One gene
raj anfwer might be given to this. 1t was
believed BY a majority CT the committee
that Mr.. Tracy did receive money from
the treafury improperly, but it never has
been fuggeaed that Mlr. DAYTON did 70,
and therefore, there is no comparifon of
the cafes. Nay, it was faid by the gen.
tleman himielf, lMr. Grilwold) that he
did not blame Mr.. Dawfon. The com.
mittee iaw moR material diRinaion in
the cafes. At the tine Of Mr.. Tracy's
appointment, he was member of the Sc
nate of the United States. at the time
OF Mr.. Dlwlon's appointment, he was a /
member OF neither branch. Mr.,Dawfon
received his warrant of appointment fome-
time In March, but he was not elected TO
fill a feat in this houle, till the end of A.
pril, and thenahe was on lis milton. His
funfions Of member Of congreis had ceaied |
before his appointment, aE4 his appoint.
ment took place before his reelection. |
Again, Mr.. DAYTON resolved no pay az |
ter fome time in October laa, which was
fome months before the fitting of the toufe. !
On thu contrary, MIR. Tracy received his
pay of officer, or agent, or whatever he
was, for feventeen days after the fitting |
of the lenate, 70 that he was paid as men, |
Der of the fenate, and as an officer at the |
fame time. The committee could not "a.
cover the cafes as parallel TO each other,
and therefore did not infert The cafe of |
Mr.. Dawion, which was moved by the |
minority.
Several Other cafes were alto mentioned |
-Thofe of MIR. Sheafe, Mr.. Muhlenberg
Mfr. Stone, but whether they were as re-
prsfented or not, they were not brought |
into the view Of :ile committee, otherwile |
there would have been anenquiry.
Mr.. GRlswoLD. Il did not mention
the cafe of General Muhlenburg, nor did |
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