"_Resolved_, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to lay before the House of Representatives, within the first week of January next, abstracts of the accounts of all paymasters, quartermasters, contractors, agents for the purchase of supplies, and generally of all the Receivers of Public Moneys, paid from the Treasury from the 1st of January, 1791, to the 1st of January, 1797, on account of the Military Establishment, so as to exhibit a detailed statement of the whole amount of moneys thus expended to that period; and whether any of the accounts be not finally settled; and shall lay before the House an estimate of moneys not accounted for. "_Resolved_, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to lay, at the same time, before the House of Representatives similar abstracts of the accounts of all the Receivers of Public Money expended for the building of the frigates. "_Resolved_, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to lay before the House of Representatives, within the last week of January in each year, a statement of money expended for the Military Establishment during the next preceding year, distinguishing the sums expended under each head, for which specific appropriations have been made, and an estimate of the probable unsettled demands in relation to each of those heads." The resolutions were severally agreed to. EVENING SESSION. _Military and Naval Appropriations._ The bill appropriating money for the Military and Naval Establishments, was received from the Senate with an amendment, proposing to do away the restriction which had been introduced into the bill to confine the expenditure of money to the specific objects for which each sum is appropriated. Mr. DANA hoped the House would recede from the amendment. Mr. GALLATIN said that, by the constitution, no money was to be granted but by a law passed in the regular mode. Now, said Mr. G., this is not by law, if, after a certain sum is granted for one item, it be not used for that purpose, but put to some other object. This was certainly according to the spirit of the constitution, and if you do not strictly abide by that, you may as well set aside the constitution, and say we will appropriate $6,000,000 for the support of Government for the present year. If we mean to carry the constitution into effect we must reject the amendment.