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1532. CONGRESS, Expenditures and.—

The subject of the debates was, whether the representatives of the people were to have
no check on the expenditure of the public
money, and the Executive to squander it at
their will, leaving to the Legislature only the
drudgery of furnishing the money. They begin
to open their eyes on this to the Eastward,
and to suspect they have been hoodwinked.—
To Edmund Pendleton. Washington ed. iv, 229. Ford ed., vii, 228.
(Pa., April. 1798)