TOTHE EDITOR OF THE UNION.
OFFIcE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES U. :


August &c, lS46.
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DEAR SIR: notice in the Union Of last evening an
extract from the Alexandria Gazette, containing
the following "On that very day FRIDAY LAST we
hear it said that the Secretary of the Treasury un-
dertook to arrest the full operation of the indepen-
dent treasury law, by authorizing the Secretary of
the Senate and the Clerk Of the House OF Represen-
atives to deposite the public moneys in their charge
in the Bank Of Washington"


So far as regards the Clerk of the House of Rep
resentatves, can assure the editor of that respect
able paper that he has heard what ia not true.
The Clerk of the House of Representatives has
had no communication whatever with the Secretary
of the Treasury in relation to that law.


The letter of the law s so plain that "he who runs
NAV read" and had the clerk made any such de-
posite, no matter by what authority, he would have
been guilty of felony, and liable to imprlson-
ment


Since the passage of that law the clerk Of the
House has drawn re.uistions direct upon the treas
ury in favor Of those to whom he has been required
TO pay money from the contingent fund OF the
House, with the exception that he has checked, In
the ordinary manner, upon a small balance of the
contingent fund whicn was deposited IN the Bank OF
Washington previous to the passage OF said act, as
the act expressly authorizes him to do until the Isl
January next.
can assure you that so far as am concerned,
shall endeavor to perform my duty as dlsbursng
officer strictly in accordance with the letter of the
law.


Yours, with high respect,


B. B. FRENCH,


Clerk House Of Representatives.
The Secretary of the Senate is now absent from
ths city.-EDIToR.