The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-17


by our financial men. They are published as
matters of interest to the public subject to
veri6cation or denial In future.-ED. TELL
From The N. Y. Semi. occasional Globe.
no RECORD KEPT PARTIALLY SPOILED IMPREs.
The chief Of the Currency Printing Bureau to VIII
have been regularly returned the partially spoiled
Impressions of bonds and notes coupons, as the
TALLY spoiled impressions delivered to him, and
Coupons thereon which in the aggregate must, at a
moderate estimate, amount to total of many mil
sheets were returned to MIN. (Testmony OF NJ, De-
cember lS, 1861
TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS CONCEALED IN CUP.
BOARD.
ton9d slowed away in the cup5oard of The CSief Of
the Currency Printing Bureau. This amount had
nd he d ed To Ran it to s
Treasurer, or otherwise account for 1t. (Ahidavit
ONE ITEM, INVOLVING FROM SIXTY MILLIONS TO
ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED MILLIONS.
The Currency Printing Bureau has not accounted
for the excess Of sheets In packages in excess OF the
number sqhorzed an SggregaES OF @ So6Go sheets 81 Of
fRctured into bonds and notes-as was doubtless the
ter hereinafter made-wOnd according to the denomi-
nation Of the bonds or notes issued throw upon the
dIed millions ms or Of dGlSS Which & & does p 0t appear IN the
mately be redeemed by the Government.
DIsAPPEARANcE OF BANK-NoTE PAPER.
Thirty Thousand strips each capable Of printing
sand or tye thousand dollars clipped from the paper
and suffered to lie about the Printing Department
until they mysteriously disappeared. These strips
dred milllo1s Of dollars. (restimony Of G. G. & T.,
ALTERATION OF BOOKS.
May. 1854 the chief of the Currency Printing Bu
caused his official books to be so altered as to
show liability to the Government OF two thousand
dollars less than 1t actually was. tTestimony A,
soANDER1Ne OF PUBLIC MONEY
Two individuals in the Currency Printing Bureau
have squandered some three hundred thousand dol
n
private interests while the same was ostensi6y spent
senden by CLERK specially Charged with the investi
cation of the affair)
DEFICIENCY OF FIFrY-FoUR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
On the 26th of November, 1864, the Chief of the
Currency Printing Bureau made false return 10 the
count for ftyfour millions of dollars of Government
securities that had been manufactured by him. Crest
mony b, page Ss0
DEFICIT SIXTY MILLIONS FRACTIONAL CUR
In addition to the fifty four millions OF bonds here
inbeore mentioned as unaccounted for the accounts
%reaTer II showed in N0ve@beF 1896 Of
millions fractional currency.
ELECTRoTYPING PLATES.
A bond plate was sent to New York, aud suffered
to remain there two weeks in the hands of expert
% Mefe or on %ess n c
Deparment at first Psrties to eixPer
of fractional currency bonds, notes. etc The name
not to be found on any official payroll in the De-
There were made in the Department variety of
| electroype plates - duplicates of the Government
maTix or moGds Of fractional currency, notes, bonds
and coupons.
| REDEMPTION OF DUPLICATE COUPONS FROM ORR
GINAL PLATES,
Coupons from the original plates have, to the
adoe St az m ressurV a s eaet amone and
the denominations ofthese duplicates may be readily
ascertaiDed upon investigation at the proper de-
| partments OF the Treasury.
ISSUE EXTRA COUPONS, AND NO RECORD KEPT.
Extra coupons of the Fiye-twenty bonds. third and
| fourth series, have been issued separate from the
bonds and no descriptive record ever made of them
OF the same and have them redeemed without detec-
tion Large amounts of duplicate Seven-thirty cou-
| while their corresponding originals were never
| The duplicate coupons of Fiye-twenty bonds, and
the EeVenthirtes redeemed and sent TO the Registry,
are known TO be from the original plates in the De-
| partment.
CONFUSED CONDITION OF THE PAPER ACCOUNT
| ovER-IssUE OF TWENTY-FIVE MILLIONS FRAC-
| TIoNAL CURRENCY.
| ofthe vast amount Of membrane paper" for frac-
tonal currency manufactured ad LiJtBl in that dyi
| sion Of the Currency Printing Bureau, no account
whatever has been kept the chief Of the Bureau re-
| whenever requested that he himself would keep IT,
| and thus no record Of even the amount OF money
printed on said paper further than return made by
| him In November, 1864, acknowledging that he had
seventy four thousand and eleven dollars and twenty
amount so las bde pPned my be
tured but known Since 1864 return whatever
facts may Explain IN IN manner the other
wise inexpllcable overssue Of twenty-five millions or
covered "'''ODN'
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record having been kept of either the quantity
manufactured the quantity used. Indeed no gene
raj ledger is kept by the Currency Printing Bureau
nor has there been regular settlement between u
and the Secretary of the Treasury, (Iestimony OF d.
| 10. ana F.. pages and l0.)
| INSECURE MANNER OF KEEPING STOCK PACKAGES
| Packages known as 'stock packages" containing
five hundred sheets of every class denomination
OF government securities Issued, whether of
bonds, and complete save as to seal and number
mission 10 supply themselves.with whatever number
they may require to replace the ones they NAV have
| spoiled, No record has been kept of these ''sUock
packages nor has the chief of the bureau ever made
| q return of the number consumed. On one occasion
large number of said sheets extracted from the
cupboard in which they were deposited and their dis
/ appearance never explained.
In connection with these circumstances Il is worthy
of mention that the superintendent Of the number
ing division has on returning TO hs duties Monday
morning found the rollers and types linked over and
| tine numbering changed, showing conclusively that
| they had been used during his absence on the -ab-
| bath. But II is not surprising whenit Is known that
It's SUPERINTENDENT but by order of the Chief OF the
Currency Printing Bureau with OF the Watchm en-
| Of the building. Testimony marked b.
| Moreover, one hundred aud twenty seven thousand
have been received by the Chief of the Currency
| Printing bureau from the bank note companies
These sheets represented value OF four millions and
ity-eigh ht thousand dollars and were complete 70
treasury seal. This seal the chief or the bureau
alone was authorized TO have put on ana he has
rendered an account Of the way In which he has dis
posed Of the shees-ll Ibid Inc sacts notor,ors q, a.,
| Treasury Department, that the 'slanolng press o
the Superintendent OF Plate Pfintng mas more than
once been opened by order on the @ SleL ~ tne Cur
lions ot money. taken out, win no othet ecknow
| ledRment than q memorandum In pencils that II hAi
been the custom 70 pass into the hahaA o. th'