The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-03-26


rency, notes, bonds and coupons.
Coupons from tho original plates
have, to the amount of millions Of DOL. |
Jars, beer presented and redeemed at
the Treasury. The exact amount and
the denominations of these duplicates
may be readily asceltained upon inves-
tigation as the proper departments of
tho Treasury.
Ezra coupons of the fve-twenty
bonds, third and fourth series, and have
been issued separate from the bonds,
and no descriptive record ever made Of
them, thus rendering IT. easy to issue
millions of duplicates of the same, and
have them redeemed without detection;
large amounts of duplicate seyen-thlrty
coupons have already been redeemed
by tho Treasury, while their CORES
ponding originals were evor is.
sued. .....
The duplicate coupons Of five twenty
bonds and the vcn-thirties redeemed
and sent to tho registry. are known TO
DO from the original plates in the de-
par.mont.
OF the vast amount OF "membrane"
paper for fractional currency manu-
iactured al Hbitum in that division Of
the Currency Printing Bureau, no
account whatever has been kept, the
chief of the bureau refusing to allow
the bookkeeper to do so, saying whom
ever REQUESTED that he himself would
keep it, and thus no record ofeven the
amount of money printed on said pa
per further than return made by HIM
in November, 1864, acknowledging
that he prihted 140, ,094 sheets amount
ing to nine hundred and seventy-iour
thousand and eleven dollars and TWEEN.
tysfve cents, (S974,011,25) How
much moro than the amount so return
ed has been printed may be conjectured
but never known. Since 1864 no re-
turn whatever has been rendered OF
, this paper, aud these startling facts
, may explain in satisfactory manner
the otherwise inexplicable over-issue
, OF twenty five millions of dollars OF
fractional currency that has been dis
: covered.
liz this condition is the "Natonal pa
per" no record having ever been KEEP
; of either the quantity manufactured ol
7 the quantity used, Indeed no genera
. lcdger is kept by tho Currency Print
+ ing Bureau; nor has thero been {
S regular settlement between it and tht
Y Secretary of tho Treasury. (Testimo
!, ny of d. Il. and f., pages 8 and 1O).
I Pac6ages known as "stocE packages,
/, continuing five hundred sheets Of every
= class and denomination ofGovernment
f securities issued, whether Of notes ol
) bonds and complete save as to SEA
= and number, and constantly kept in 9
:, place accessible to all, with permission
10 supply themselves with whateve
il number they may require to replac,
n the ones they may have spoiled. N
= record has been kept of these ''stoel
Il packages" nor has the Chief of th
IS Bureau ever made return of the mum
d ber consumed. On one occasion
y large number OF said sheets was extract
II cd from the cupboard in which the,
were deposited and their disappear
l. ance never explained.
l.. In connection with theso clrcumstan
J. ces' it is worthy of mention that th
d Superintendent of the numbering di
1t vision has on returning to his dutie
d on Monday morning found tho roller
D. and types mixed over and the number
s. ing changed showing conclusivel
1t that they had been used during hi
30 absence on the Sabbath. But it IS nc
l. surprising when 1T is known that th
3 keys of tho numbering division III
left, not with its Superintendent, bu
r by order of the Chief of the Curreno
j. Printing Bureau, with one Of tn
a watchmon of tho building (TcstimC
70 ny marked b a... ..
w Moreover, ono hunrod and twenty
seven thousand eight hundred and sl1
~ ty-two sheets for the same parpos
ne have been received by the Chief of tn
lo Currency Printing Bureau from th
,ir bank-note companies These sheet
n represent value of four millions an
n. fifty eight thousand dollars, and wol
, complete save tho Treasury seal
"a. This seal the chief of the bureau aloT
was authorized to have put on, and
he has never rendered an account OF Il
de way he has disposed of tho Sheets
he Qbid) .. .s...
C. TO pass hurriediy over the fact
.rs notorious in the Treasury Department
en- that the ''standing press of the supe
B., intendent of plato printing has mo
than oree been opened by order Of Il
ms chief of tho Currency Bureau, and
as contents amounting to millions tax,
,ef ont. with no other acknowledging
ith than a memoranda in pencil; that
To- mas been the custom 10 pass into t
,n- hands ofthe bronzers, sealers and nul
berers, and receive from them wit
rk, out counting, the paper in its vario
ks stages toward completion into bon
ri and notes; that no account was kept
the third series of five.twonties, and
ks the fractional currency printed
rst similar paper, until many millions h
ont been issued; in cosequonce of which
3 settlement has been or can been mat
Dis that bonde and notes have been del