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Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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On Feb. 24, the U.S. House of Representatives discussed and approved instructions for a committee of 15 to inquire into Treasury Department transactions, prompted by Mr. Giles. The President sent confidential messages including extracts on a potential commercial treaty with Britain and a letter from U.S. ministers in Madrid; galleries were cleared for reading.
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House of Representatives.
Monday, Feb. 24.
Pursuant to the request of the Secretary of the Treasury, as expressed in a letter to the house some time since, a motion was brought forward this day by Mr. Giles, for the appointment of a committee to enquire into the transactions of the Treasury department; with this motion was connected a series of instructions to be observed by the committee in conducting the enquiry.
The time was taken up in discussing these instructions, which, after some alterations, were agreed to.
A committee of fifteen members was then appointed.
A message was received from the President of the United States, communicating extracts from letters lately received from the American Minister in London—copy of a letter from the British Secretary of State, to the British minister plenipotentiary to the United States, relative to a Commercial Treaty.
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A letter from Messrs. Carmichael and Short, the American minister at Madrid.
These communications being announced as confidential, when the reading of them was called for, the galleries were cleared.
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Monday, Feb. 24.
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a committee of fifteen members was appointed. confidential communications were received from the president, and the galleries were cleared when their reading was called for.
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Pursuant to the request of the Secretary of the Treasury, a motion was brought forward by Mr. Giles for the appointment of a committee to enquire into the transactions of the Treasury department, with instructions for the enquiry. The instructions were discussed, altered, and agreed to. A message was received from the President communicating extracts from letters from the American Minister in London and a letter from the British Secretary of State to the British minister plenipotentiary relative to a Commercial Treaty, as well as a letter from Messrs. Carmichael and Short at Madrid. These communications were announced as confidential.