The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1868-04-01

| MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
"The Currency Printing Bureeu has not
accounted for the excess of sheets in pack :
! ages in excess of the number authorized,
an aggregate of $50, 600 sheets of bond
| Treasury note paper. These sheets if man
ufactured into bonds and notes-as was
doubtless the case Judging from develop.
mpnts bearing on this matter hereinafter
.made-would, according to the denothina,
tion of the bonds or NOTES issued, throw
upon the country from sixty to one thous
and FIVE hundred of millions OF dollars.
which does not appear in the Statement Of
the public debt but which must ultimately
be redeemed by the Government. -
Mr., Dunbar says: ''"# t
COSTLY AND DASqEgo1's EXPERIMENTS BY
WHIcH nIscREDlr Is EiSr ny All ISSUES
or T1E GovTRNNENTs .s
1 The 'ollowing are some Of the costly
tnd dangerous cSherimehts made IN the
Currency Printing Bureau The facts are
contained in The report uade to Secretary
McCullpeh Jan Iarg. 1867; %
A bond plate was sent to New York,
and suffered to remain there two weeks in
the hands Of an expert for experimental
purposes in electrotyring ft
There were employed for weeks in the
'easufy Dei'ar!uiGn,, ?, Gr't Surreil!llous,
electrotype, pates-9uplic1tes of fractional
currency, bonds, notes, &c The name of
the principal expert engaged in this busi
ness was not 10 bp found on any official pay
roll in the Department, 1911.
There were made in the department va
riety Of tlectrotyped plateS--duplicates of
the Government plates of fractional curren>
ot bonds % Aiso tba ,,,t.;., or ,,,,,,,ll,
- - " 80" .'t" ~ - ~ -, - u',''
Vi l'o''ooai oo'iehoy a"te'' o"uo' a"u oou
ponS'
HOW was 1t phSsloe that SUCH th'ngs
were done, and the persons not bear away
cos @" and y ho az ~ "r r"l W. naval tI ~ ae ,L m
ey OUTSIDE OF the department as 'n8ld" OF
" hat restrain was iHeTe NpJi V'ep!
HOW cOu'd tAev ne .drthetei waen thfN
names ware net to be todnd on any OlhGial
paysrol 10 the department at the very time
t'"' ,,hi;o ;n"r m.'' 70 ''''' ''''''''
A c.. c...,I.. . ,, ,,,,,
N..'"'t, W. ''F..H w p""'', ~"
grown r'c'l WIN me cfl'heS' i'aonS aha taA-
atioD OF me fehpte, ~ fftVeht me eXpoS>
m portment NJ t,t' arose io his n,ara breatbing
cod delib rife nnrinry Ha whose x,yrr,
dntv II oos N nrntlct.tba npl,l;c Tra,s,,v
declarss that every thing is right whon i
knew Of these very trauds and arose only
to quiet Investigation
Another Senator makes millions through
the legcrdcmain Of the Treasury Depart
manf; while member Of the Lower House
Of Congress- who swin5les the whole com
nunjty in Which he lives, is indicted and
llcads privilege Of arrest, because he was d
member Of Congress, using his position TO
dcfraul his constituents.
MI Dunbar says:
TnE pCBlIc DEBT.
We assnrt tfat 'tht auu KID statement of
The total amnunt Of tho nubiie dehi IS nor
correct. aud that on the strength OF cyl
donce in. the possession OF the Treasury
Department o,liAals, they must be con
cions Of the fact.
AwavS relying on evidence - be found
in the Treasury Department we assert that
the Secretary Of the Treasury is naable to
give correct statement al the amount OF
the Government .pecuniary obligations
adoat.
ed reports aDc an investigation.
The following Is a statement of the pub
lie debt O. the United States on the lst OF
Of AUGUST, 1867;
ngEr Rr,ntxo COIN ryrrREs-,
Five Der cent bords..........S las, ,43l $50 90
Six per. cent. bonds Of 1867
and 1855. ;...,..:...,,;: a 2t2, ~ 50
SiX per cent boi"is OF lo5l ZS},'4 'ioo Oo
SIX pef cent 'iVe- twenty ,sa or soo no
NrH ,9.; rnnd n 990 6C0 90
soy f1''7'0'- ''-'N''''''''''''' --,--- -
Total. 81 ,67s, 800 gol so
DEnT DnARfSe ouRRt NcY rNrEaasr.
Six per cent. 6onls...,''::..,,..5 l0'4o@'o0o 90
at ,;E,a XII ''''Vi toa 32o 3c 90
rcnr.a- y,a.r snyen-thirty note l5i 233 425 90
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