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1497. CONGRESS, The Administration [continued].

If members of Congress
are to know nothing but what is important
enough to be put into a public message, and
indifferent enough to be made known to all
the world; if the Executive is to keep all other
information to himself and the House to
plunge on in the dark, it becomes a government
of chance and not of design.—
To Mr. Bidwell. Washington ed. v, 16.
(W. 1806)