The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-12-08

for clerks and other persons who have
held Office in the Treasury Department
to accept employment as agents or at
torneys for parties having claims
against the Department, and there is
reason to believe that in some instances
the information obtained while in pub
lie service has been used in aid of
claimants. Without detailing all of
the objections to this practice, re-
spectfully suggest law debarriug per-
sons from practicipg before the Treas
ury Department as agents or attorneys
In behalf of claims tibet were pending
when such persons were officers of the
Department. a
In March last there were employed in
the Treasury Department., at Washing
ton, 2S4S clerks, messengers aud labor
ers at a monthly cost of S2S5, ,92l 81.
At present the whole number of such
employees is 244l, and their monthly pay
amounts to S23S, ,2S0 90, showing q de.
crease of expenses at the rate Of $751;
l65.04 per annum. 1t was found neces-
sary, however, during the periods men,
toned, to increase the force in the
Internal Revenue Office and in the office
of the First Comptroller. This increase
in the aggregate is at the rate of SS04. 40
per annum. This statement does not
relate to the force in employment in the
bureau of engraving and printing. In
March last there were sixty-two special
agents in the service of the Department,
receiving in the aggregate for their ser
vices the sum of SS1.l0 per day. Each
of these agents made his report to the
Department and acted under its direct
orders. The number at present employ
ed is fifty-four and their daily pay
amounts to S36995. The pay of the
agents has been increased generally in
the hope that more efficient service
might be obtained. q.
The sea coast and frontiers Of the
country have been divided into sixteen
special agency districts, and superin-
tendeDt appointed for each. Assistants
have also been appointed and detailed
to act under the several district agents.
The orders of the Department are in all
cases sent to the agent in charge Of the
district, and reports of his assistants are
made to him. The agent is required to
make a monthly report of his doings
and of the doings Of his subordinates.
The results thus far obtained appear to
justify the organization.
Arrangements have been made for the
manufacture of paper for the currency,
and other obligations of the United
States, and for the printing of the same,
with increased security of the Govern
ment against the unlawful issue from
the genuine plats. Under the l1th sec
tion of an Act approved June 30th, 1864,
entitled "An Act to provide way and
means for the support of the Govern.
ment, and for other purposes" pecu-
liar paper has been designated as the
Government paper, and by that Act it
is made felony for asy person to have or
retain in his possession any similar pa.
per adapted TO the making of any obli-
cations or securities of the United
States, except under authority Of the
Secretary of the Treasury or some other
proper officer of the United States. Ar
rangements had been made for the man
ufacture of this paper by Messrs. Will
cox & Co., near Philadelphia, and the
mills owned by them, which are exclu-
siSely devoted to this purpose, have
been placed under the supervision of Of
ficers of the Government, and such pre-
cautions have been taken for the Gus
tody of the portions of the machinery
as to render it impossible for the paper
manufacturers to obtain it by dishon-
esty; it is received by agents of the
Government stationed at the mills, aud
upon the requisition of the department
it is shipped TO the National Bank
Note Company, the American Bank Note
Company and the Printing Bureau of the
Treasury Department, as the case may
require. Arrangements have also been
made with each of the two companies
mentioned, for the proposing of the
plates for every issue of currency or
other obligations the Engraving and
Printing Bureau at Washington pre-
pares third set and each office places
an imprint upon every obligation of
the Government. Notice of the trans
mission of paper from the agent at the
mills, and its receipt by each of the
several offices of the deliveries there
from and the Sealing Bureau in the
Treasury Department and also of de-
liveries to the Treasurer of the United
States is given each day by telegram or
by letter and on the following day &C
cOuntants ia the Treasury Department
prepare statement showing the
disposition of every sheet of pa
per manufactured. In the month of
November the paper at the mill
aud in each Of the several printing es-
Establishments, was carefully counted
and the result compared with the ac-
count in the TreasuI Department. 10 an
aggregate of about seven millions Of
sheets, in receipts by the agent at the
mills, discrepancies were found to the
extent of sixty sheets of fractional cur
rency paper and for the money valne of
which the companies doing the work are
responsible. 1t is believed that these
arrangements furnish better security
than has heretofore existed against the
fraudulent issue of currency, or other OBJ
legations of the Government. By the use
aboriginal dies or plates, and the system
of the several establishments entrusted
with work, will disclose at once any
discrepancies in the accounts. Ii is not
probable that the changes made will
diminish the expense; indeed, the cost
is greater than it would be if the work,
in all its branches, were done in the
Treasury Department. In my judg-
ment, however, the additional security
is of more consequence to the Govern
ment than was the economy in the ex-
pense of engraving and printing.
Terrible Death Of a Railway Couduc.
tor.
As freight train No. 6, coming east,
which left Logansport at 3:45 A. NJ, on
Monday, iu charge of Conductor Louis
Art, was rounding the first curve this
side Of that place, a car-coupling broke,
dividing the train into two sections. As