The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1869-12-11

: Excitement in the Treasury Depart
ment--A Quantity of Fractional g
d. Currency Missing Searching
81 the Employees The Miss
a.. ing Funds Recovered. @
We copy as follows from the n
Y. Herald Of the Goth:
There was quite an~excitement
in the Currency and Printing Bu-
reau of the Treasury last night
Late in the evening it was discov-
cred that $3.50 in fractional cur
rency was missing. The alarm
was sounded, search commend
ed, high and low, but no trace
of the sum could be found. The
discovery was made in a what is
called the separating room, to
which the packages of currency
are brought from the drying room
latter counting and comparing.
After they reach the separating
room they are again counted and
compared before being separated,
and it was during this examine
ton Of the sheets that the fact of
$3.50 being missing became known.
Superintendent McCartee finding
that an ordinary search was not
successful, was obliged to order
that each person in the separat-
ing room, male and female, should
be examined. A highly respect
able lady was employed to search
all the females, and the men
were taken to another department
where they were compelled to un-
dergo the same rigid overhauling.
1.-THE young girls were literally
I obliged to take themselves apart.
Dresses, petticoafs, waterfalls and
|every article of their. attire were
|stripped off, but no currency dis
covered. Notwithstanding all the
searching and hunting no trace
of the missing money was found.
In the meantime, while all this
was going on inside, q crowd of
the friends of the girls were wait
ing on the street, wond ,ring what
could be the matter that kept the
employees locked mp in the Treas
Jtry so far beyond the usual hour.
1t was fully eleven O'Clock last
might before the girls were re-
leased and allowed to go home. I
am informed that this morning.
THE missing currency was found in
the drying room, where it had re-
manned through a mistake in
counting. The packages are put
lup in one Thousand sheets. sepa-
Irated by slips of paper into ten
Fone-hundred divisions, and the
counter last night instead of
counting the ten divisions only
. counted nine, which were sent to
1.-THE separating room in that con-.
fdition. -e-lls A.. --..- -
7 THE New TARIFF BILL.-Tha.
ways, aud Means Committee is
18TH engaged in considering what
additional articles of imports shall
be put on the free list on their
new tariff bill, and have not vet
shown how much they mean to
raise the duties on other articles.
The theory on which they begin
work seems to be to admit free q
t1arge number. Of things not raised
or made in this. country, and the
AoCCS oll OtICE drliC1cS coming
into. competition with. our manu-
facturers: They have called Ola
the Statistical Bureau for returns
Eof the last fiscal year on a long
list of articles it is proposed to
put on the free list. These re-
turns; would not in the ordinary
course Of business be collected for
some months, and a good deal of
extra labor is involved in prapar-
ing them at this time. The COM
mittee will not take much def
mite action till they get these
Figures, and were in session but q
short time to-day. The chairman
and other members were at the
Treasury a long time. What
view the Secretary will take on
the Question at issue is not vet
Known ~ s.s -
=, Commissioner Wells will again
recommend revision Of the
whole tariff on mere revenue
basis, and, among Congressman.
here, there seems more DISPOSE
ton than heretofore to hear his
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