American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-07-23
From The Faston, Nd. Gazette.


The Investigating Committee have at last finish
ed their labors and we are furnished with their re
port
They say nothing has occurred in their last in
vestigation to produce any material alteration inI
their former report, though they find now that the
loss OF the governments money, deposited by the
Secretary Crawford without authority in the Frank
lin Bank of Alexandria, will be certain, and not as
he, Mr. Crawford, had stated in his letter TO the
President, that there would be no danger of loss to
the United States.--This with such circumstances,
we regard as rather bad new hDding-We are then
referred by the committee to their FIRST report, as
containing all they think proper to detail on the
sublect--as we have before given our view of this
first report, it will not be OF importance TO go into
detailed recapitulation committee acqut Mr..
Crawford Of bad motives as far as absolute testimony
comes to them-it will be remembered that Mr..
Edwards always declared he did not aege motives,
he spoke to the facts-of these facts majority of
them to be admitted by the committee but
they say, inasmuch as there is evidence OF bad
motive although they find many Of the facts to be
true, yet they don't that Mr.. Crawford's integ-
rity is impeached, or that he has mismanaged the
finances of the country.
Upon the other point, that of not giving up pa
pers which were in his Office when officially called
for the committee say, he did So but they have no
evidence that he did with bad desgn-but the
committee also say, that they believe Mr.. Craw.
ford had papers in his department containing infor-
nation called for and which ought to have been com.
municaed, but which he did not communicate.
The committee say too, that Mr.. Crawford did
make depostes of the public money in other banks
than those of the branches Of the United States
Bank, but that he did inform Congress Of ii, as
he was by law bound to do-A Secretary OF the
Treasury did not comply with the laws regulating
his Department because he forgot it, or did not ad-
vert TO ill.,!
The committee say, the Secretary guilty Of not
having the regular returns made to him for con.
siderable time from the Bank Of Missouri, where
he had made large deposte OF public money, and
which returns were necessary to understand the
solvency OF the Bank and the consequent safety oil
the public money
The committee say, they have not learned what
measures The Secretary has adopted to recover the
remaining unpaid balances Of public money in the
different banks, which the Secretary expresses a
confident hope OF recovering, but which the com
,nittee consider entirely lost. How well Secre-
tary must manage his affairs, who omits to get the
regular monthly statements OF his banks OF deposte
who makes no preparations to recover unpaid and
withheld balances-and who confidently hopes that
will be recovered which the committee say is en-
irely lost J.!
The committee say, that no intentional mlsstate
rnent has been made by the Secretary OF the amount
OF uncurrent, or bad bills, received from the West
ern Banks although the sum oil two hundred ano
n eighty thousand dollars, was omtted!!
In truth so many of the facts are found to be true
81 and there is so much inadvertence want of design
want of direct evidence OF bad motive, and accident
and hindrance Of sort another, that we thinl
both the Secretary and bis friends and his opponent
NAV now leave the decision to the turn up OF cen
or game Of long slraws for while the Commit
Zee seem in some part acqut, in others they trac
so much guilt of fact that it partakes OF what MAJ
81 be termed an uncomfortable portion of acquitle
81 outlines.