Many anonymous writers appeared, who assailed the head of that department with a degree of bitterness indicative of the spirit in which the inquiry was to be conducted.
[Sidenote: Resolutions implicating the secretary of the treasury rejected.] On the 27th of February, not many days after the last number of the report was received, Mr.Giles moved sundry resolutions which were founded on the information before the house.

The idea of a balance unaccounted for was necessarily relinquished; but the secretary of the treasury was charged with neglect of duty in failing to give congress official information of the monies drawn by him from Europe into the United States; with violating the law of the 4th of August, 1790, by applying a portion of the principal borrowed under it to the payment of interest, and by drawing a part of the same monies into the United States, without instructions from the President; with deviating from the instructions of the President in other respects; with negotiating a loan at the bank, contrary to the public interest, while public monies to a greater amount than were required, lay unemployed in the bank; and with an indecorum to the house, in undertaking to judge of its motives in calling for information which was demandable of him from the constitution of his office; and in failing to give all the necessary information within his knowledge relative to subjects on which certain specified references had been previously made to him.
These resolutions were followed by one, directing that a copy of them should be transmitted to the President of the United States.
The debate on this subject, which commenced on the 28th of February, was continued to the 1st of March, and was conducted with a spirit of acrimony towards the secretary, demonstrating the soreness of the wounds that had been given and received in the political and party wars which had been previously waged.[65] It terminated in a rejection of all the resolutions.

The highest number voting in favour of any one of them was sixteen.
[Footnote 65: See note, No.VIII.at the end of the volume.] [Sidenote: Congress adjourns.] On the 3d of March, a constitutional period was put to the existence of the present congress.

The members separated with obvious symptoms of extreme irritation.

Various causes, the most prominent of which have already been noticed, had combined to organize two distinct parties in the United States, which were rapidly taking the form of a ministerial and an opposition party.