Excerpt from The Washington City Ring: Speech of Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt, of New York, Delivered in the House of Representatives, February 11, 1873, on the Affairs of the District of Columbia It is clear these could be answered at once, and among all there were at most two that could by any construction involve a delay'of twenty-four hours. So Congress is still kept in the dark, while day after day come up schemes for giving the board more money. They have stated in their aecounts there was abalance to their credit. We have given them more, and yet they are clamoring for an additional Ou their state ment the following report was made, under my motion to inquire into the debt of the District. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.