Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1817-03-03
sDoN OUR CORRESPONDENT
At WASHINGTON.

AIKEN for granted that tue iars
0aare Of ground in front OF the east
Inc capitol. would he fenced in. asI
WIRE apart, from the noble edifceI
!, which it belongs, and that idea was
! ,,,tpnanced by the terms OF the actI
: hs. session for improving it. To-
i great satisfaction, however, Of
,.y man Of taste. who contcmplatss
IN pride that structure as a ROnp
os,t Of American muniiicence. The
.,i,;nal plan has been so far abandon
n 4; to relieve the pablo from appr"-
Ss,sinns on that score. The interiorl
w,ll next to the capitol is to b. rn:t-
~. and the enclosure viii be extend
d round the semicircular ARIA that
hos west of the building. 80 that the
r,DitoI will be surrounded with one
r,Ie piece of gronnd with no other
tnos between them than viii serve I'll
evliI, cattle and carriages. pHrhaHSI
,rhlin and n,s'S. A resolution I'd
trat general effect. AID to apprroria !
,sI,rl nf IN 1ney to cn'nHictr the whole,
has been moved by I!r. C0lait. the
chairman of the c0mnittaa. AMI o.
Serel to lie on the table TO- crsidera-
ion on Wednesday, aud Yesterday a
NH TO the eject was read twice and
cpnni'ted.
Yau nav rcmcni5c? that in the
col,-Sr If the last session of congress
a huge list Of d,faulters and an ac-
CONT Of en?rmous balances due by
them n government was laid before
Congress-. Ii created a nnmcntary
ortrrY ana. as suited the hnn0r or the
sp'ean vs. irl;vil'tais. much express
ST. " i1'f-al'inn. That subsidized.
hYrrar, an ~ (l"Cnr ling to the oil
Sc g eve"G hn1v's bigin-rs is no.
bLh's business. The plhiic became
cllrn and silent on The subject. Will"
government who were SGn11S'i t. 81
pinr in the affair. wrPr m'!i;ltiHg n"
mans IF rcmedyinG thu past abuses so
far rs they werr rene,liahlr, all II
preventing any ofthe sam" kind from
taking place in future. A bill Ghr the
pprD So was discussed on Tuesday
an Wednesday in the House " Re-
prsentatires bnt how far it will he
prolactjve nf its intended effects. lop-
ped as it has been If a material part
Of il, is vet To he determined. rhis
bill. which is entitled n hill - to prD-
vide for the prompt settir'n"nt ofDnb-
lir accounts" gnes To abolish the olicr
of accountants and additional account
ants Of the DEPARTMENTS Vt war and
nav. and that Of superintendent se-
neral of military supplies. and to ere
ate FOUR additional auditors aud one
comntroller to the treasury depart
m mt, and a solicitor Of the treasury.
Frrn the nature Of the circumstances
those must be Offices not mly Of
w,ichty. arduous and Important datv.
but of high responsibility. lit to he
cnnfled only to men of strict purity
Of morals and Independence ii Charac-
ter. aud therefore worthy Of an ici
compensation. Accordingly $50 al
las was proposed as the az al 'a'AryI
for the comptroller. 5 90 dS.arS a.
for the auditors aai n" solicitor u
the treasury ia, the late rpiicmic
Of Deu pAsn"SS caught ir"m the
mia,as of the compensation law aHdi
the pephirt elilNia Of Che pn1ic de-,
mag 'caes. has leEi b.'l,iad it Il mrrhid'
faint. laSsitnde and an imbccility
which have utterly disqualified AL
Who were infected by that lowering
diStemper, from doing any thing Vi
S>.Dgs. bold or mHniiicent, Tor the
pr',snt session. and which IN al pro
br,ility. will not be eralicatcd from
thG system for two or three sessions,
to come 50 that the Cdmptroiter's
compensation was swc2tsh down to
$500 dollars, and that OF the a"dltors.
to 5000 each Thus have officers OF
very high trust been placed upon sa-
laries not more than enough IN this
most expensive Of places. and these
most expensive of times, for good
responsible clerk.
As to the office of solicitor to tie 'Tes'
sury. il is exaunged frnm tn bill. la ~,
he. tn enab'e government to secure The
puo',c t-ea~uyy fr"'n the frauds aud de1'
ternus cozenage of the officers, to whom
i becomes indispensab'y necessary r. en-
trIt arg su,nS of mney. .: '"ilct"
was vested b, the bill with sumnar!
power TO issue process Of distress against
'hpo, . - s,,o If. N inlannDlSnt OF the