Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-07-23

dsnyed 10 make Certain ei1D - : -.
a g, 80. allowed till the next morning
"a tsso;fn an anfwer TO the committee.
% 'o onr meeting the enfning day. Mr..
q. anfwer was received. He had
s os.o' m.nitealy hurried, but 70 the MI
O Oo, Of the committee the aniweF was
nO 'rsly satisfactory. We endeayored to
s ''.s RE report, accordingly or at leait to
w.. s~s The fecrstary's letter, annexed and
II sr,sd 10 among the documents. The
. ..,sogts however were overruled. 1t oc-
. .'..,sJ 70 US at this time. that we were
.no5 20 obfsrve at leaf, theiane appear
D w.. of iuaice in relation TO MIR. Tracy,
auso conduit was the fubjeta of our ami
.,Sy,rion, which had been fhewn IN ref
pett 10 Mr.. Stoddert.
I, was therefore Unified, before the re-
n0rr was made, that Mr.. Tracy, fhould
{ allowed an opportunity uf explanation.
The chairman 70 far complied with the
win Of the minority, as TO agree thai the
r.oort ihould be fhewn by member of
,bs committee 10 Mr.. Tracy and his an
fwer waited for till the next morning
IJOon the third day we made an effort
70 iproduce into the report, iexeral cafes
which had occurred under the preient ad.
mioiaration, which the minority cora
dersd as fanding upon the fame ground,
u;th asas Of the former Administration,
which were condemned in the report. -
The effort was vain. The cafes referred
10, were diainguifhed by the vote of the
majority from thofe which were ftated.
Alter one or two inall amendments, the
report was offered for our agreement, and
adopted by four agaiuf three. The fame
moruirg, the chairman preisntsd II to the
houie.
Ihase made this Ratement in order
that the houle, may be acquainted with
the ground upon which ! undertook to al
lert that the report was immature.
II was impofible in the tine allowed
rs to weigh the evidence Of facts, to con-
ider the ioundneis Of PRINCIPLES, or to ex-
anime the correctness of Hatements con.
tained in the report. 1t will be perceiv-
ed by thofe who are accufomed to TIE
forms ofprcceeding upon committees, that
our coure has been entirely rogel. Ii
was ulual heretofore for committee TO a
gree upon the fubRance of their report and
then to infruH their chairman to draw up
airport in conformity to. their opinion.--
In The prelent in&ance, ouy opinions had.
NOT been aiked, lpon any point embraced
b. tie report, before il was offered to US
iniss complete form.
II The points and cafes which the report
contains, had been feparately brought IN
Ger diicuison, they would ave been more
iully Investigated and copddered, and the
lsiult might IN conlequence poGibly have.
leen varied.
As it regarded myfslf, this ney mode
CT preceding was a complete iurprile.-
had concluded from every thing which
tell under my obiervation, that the In
tention of making report was entirely a.
bandoned. -
This inference was drawn from The fmall
imprsiiion which had ever been obieryable
from any difcovery which the committee
had made, as we'll as from the omiilion OF
any eoniultation which ufua.ly had been
preparatory to report. It would have
been difficult for any of thofe, TO have
conceived that fuch report would have
been made, who had never previodly; from
any one member of the COMMITTEE, heard
thar any one act Of the Administration had
been diieoyered worthy of being p.ade the
inojett OF our cenlorial power.
lee II iiated in the report, that from
the year isventeen hundred and ninety fez
ven 10 the year eighteen hundred and one
incluhse, a fun was advanced blythe trea-
iary, ehargeable to the war department,
exceeding ten millions of dollars, of which
upwards Of thee million remains unfet,Ied
CT unaccounted for Ard ,b,t fro,, .be