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Rhode Island Republican
Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island
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In Washington on April 28, a congressional committee reports that the prior administration spent $199,030.92 on navy yards without authorization, contrasting with the current administration's legal adherence in expenditures like the Berceau treaty payment.
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During the present session of Congress, frequent attempts have been made to excite the public sensibility with regard to the application of public money, without any legal appropriation: in the debate on the Berceau, the publication of which is this day commenced, the reader will remark the reiterated effort, in a side and unfair way, to alarm the People with the suspicion that the President had laid out 32,000 dollars without a legal appropriation, though the expenditure is allowed to have been made under the permanent provisions of a Treaty, and is in itself acknowledged to be perfectly right. - The reader will also remark, that the insinuations are repelled and completely refuted by official facts appealed to in reply; and that the executive, in this case, as in every other, has been shown to have manifested the most scrupulous adherence to law.
While we hesitate not to bestow our full tribute of admiration on the bold and ceaseless efforts of federalism to misrepresent and distort the measures of the present executive, we take the liberty of preserving some respect for truth, and feel for disposition to transfuse into the public mind a portion of the same respect. -
With this view, we call upon the nation to contrast the rigid adherence of the present administration to the legal expenditure of the public money, with the wanton, unauthorised and immense expenditure made by the former administration in the single case below stated.
Yesterday the Committee to whom was referred so much of the President's Message of Dec. 8th, as relates to Naval Stores and Naval Preparation, made a Report, the conclusion of which is as follows:
"The Committee find that prior to the 4th of March, 1801, the sum of ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-NINE THOUSAND AND THIRTY DOLLARS, and 92 cents, have been expended in purchasing Navy-Yards and making improvements upon them, without any law authorizing the purchase, or any appropriation of money, either for purchase or improvements."
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April 28
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the committee find that prior to the 4th of march, 1801, the sum of one hundred and ninety-nine thousand and thirty dollars, and 92 cents, have been expended in purchasing navy-yards and making improvements upon them, without any law authorizing the purchase, or any appropriation of money, either for purchase or improvements.
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During the present session of Congress, frequent attempts have been made to excite the public sensibility with regard to the application of public money, without any legal appropriation: in the debate on the Berceau, the publication of which is this day commenced, the reader will remark the reiterated effort, in a side and unfair way, to alarm the People with the suspicion that the President had laid out 32,000 dollars without a legal appropriation, though the expenditure is allowed to have been made under the permanent provisions of a Treaty, and is in itself acknowledged to be perfectly right. - The reader will also remark, that the insinuations are repelled and completely refuted by official facts appealed to in reply; and that the executive, in this case, as in every other, has been shown to have manifested the most scrupulous adherence to law. While we hesitate not to bestow our full tribute of admiration on the bold and ceaseless efforts of federalism to misrepresent and distort the measures of the present executive, we take the liberty of preserving some respect for truth, and feel for disposition to transfuse into the public mind a portion of the same respect. - With this view, we call upon the nation to contrast the rigid adherence of the present administration to the legal expenditure of the public money, with the wanton, unauthorised and immense expenditure made by the former administration in the single case below stated. Yesterday the Committee to whom was referred so much of the President's Message of Dec. 8th, as relates to Naval Stores and Naval Preparation, made a Report.