1518. CONGRESS, Corruption and.—
I
told President [Washington] that it was a
fact, as certainly known as that he and I
were then conversing, that particular members
of the Legislature, while those laws [Assumption,
Funding, &c.] were on the carpet,
had feathered their nests with paper, had then
voted for the laws, and constantly since lent
all the energy of their talents, and instrumentality
of their offices, to the establishment
and enlargement of the [Treasury]
system.—
The Anas. Washington ed. ix, 104.
Ford ed., i, 177.
(Feb. 1792)
