Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-06-07

N On she ssksr hand, Il hsii nov %, ss.sv mi.
immenses Gums have been 6ieksd from the
public freasusys during the nine. Year, ct
our twehlesse6 yebsib icaR Reconsideration
which have now occurred 4 IN the very inns;
proper ways, and 20 answer the very ina-s
proper ends, 10 falsely imputed IN lar
DAVIS Co the rsWo 6rsts s. 81 q
In he 6sst session of congress, tnder IL.
ffstsof sheseY ubfican adnsi1issfa tsons, TT
sle more was done. fhant Just 20 pub down
and DESTROY; vi sths sSsteins of ta1aeipff aud
revenue created and erected BY 1lse yash-
layton and Adams ADMINISTRATORS at
least sd lar 40 10 secure the Fpof uiar points
IN Wis 4. IN THE sccond, Evix. in t8O2, law
,of 1889, which raised he Asslari.s Of the
principal executive officers, m consequence
Of the high price Of all articles ef'GvlngS oc,
casioned by the war, and the extravaganza
TO which Philadelphia had then riseni and
perhaps too, 10 consequences OF exPences
unayoidably to be incurred, by those very
oiicers themselves, in the removal to Wash.
ington 81 say, q law predicated on these
considerations, and intended to expire a.
bout that time, when they should haveere-
moved to cheaper place, and all the ether
causes Cor hi Oh salaries should have ceased;
was re.enacted by our patriotic and frugal
republican rulers, whereby ~ 500 dollars
we're actually added to the civil iist-ahat
is permanently, since the'saving Of It was
provided for in the expiration Ut the law -ot
the federal congress of 1899. The came
ra,rio,ic and republican, congress sat four
months and its, contingent expences a.
mounted "a seventeen thousand dollars
That of 1898, the most extravagant ever
known 10 federal times, sat eight fNenlhs,
and hs .xpences of the same kind Asnouns.
sdto fourteen thousand ninety Eight dol.
lars and sixty one cents making a sum at
only $3.50 dallars and seventy CENTS
more, spent by our very saving and eco.
nomieal republican lsw givers, than BY
those of al orisfecratic cast, IN proportion
10 the tins OF sitting. The reason OF this
extraordinary difference, is to be extracted
from the official "estimate" itself OF that
Cay, and the late reports from the treasury
department, in relation to some Of the Ia.
vishise items in favor Of particular friends
and able supporters. duane, the sable
editor" for instance, We find; had eleven
Thousand and fifty seven dollars out Of this
whole sum Of contingent expences, taken by
economists " from the mouth OF labor )"
part of which was for stationary, actually
at one dollar per ream moro for paper than
that article could then have been purchased
FOR, and no doubt was purchased for at the
mills. And John Becky, the favorite de-
mocratic clerk to the house of representa-.
tives, elected and supported it. that ;;ctice
tsor bis Infamous services, OF having bssely
and falls ely accused the virtueus Washing
Ion, under the signature OF a Calm OBJ.
serv.r," Of robbing the public treasury II
now turns out, from the late report OF the
comptroller of the treasury, was public
piunderer himself of that day, Of part OF
.,hose very continet Mt funds, to the amount
five Thousand three hundred and thirty.
six dollars. 49,. ~. 4
In the same way. and frum the same
motives, We may reatlilyaccount for some
OF thes,iil more enormous executive lavish
ines, and minis,e ai ,oEbsriss OF our pub
lie TIRE asuteS +; to be extracted from various
reports and olher pubic documents, from
the commsncemeut of our BLESSED repubii
car ominisralions, up TO the presen, day
The foIlswinga are 2 lev Of the items in
thv accounts
For sending Mr.. Dawson, as a mere
mrssenger,.to carry letter. inclosing
.realy, and the invitation to Thomas Pane,
the whole expsnce was only about thirty
thousand dollars-a trifing postage to be
paid out ofthe savings Of So economical an
administration, and for such valuable and 4
important objects, as the importation of all
the French fashions and perfumes, and the
besorted author of the Age Of Reason !"
= .FGr repairing Le~B erceau, French coz
vet,e, after she had been destined to be, 81
veuu7, the tritiiag sam of shirty.two thou
sand dollars; and eight hundred and seven.
tymore to her officers, said 20 be intended
by oar late luxurious PRECEDENT to have q
propitious effect in the moment of returning
(r;sorch;n ~ ood ,hat - haJ ,h,s .a.c, q