Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-06


vent mistakes or appropriations by
employees "a plIntiag the bank notes. bfssld Z
s.ampss etcs are SO perfect that IL siopi Z
sheet of the paper be missing. it ear be i'm.
Ine1lately traced to the party Responsible
ior tne loss. For instance, when the psDer
Is received from The mabufae4,,re. s,vtrv
sneet Is counted, to see that they correspond
Wit. us Dlll; then When the paper Is To be
uSse enc sheets are counted aud delivered to
tne party doing The printing, and each press
I0sassels every impression made: then
sesnen tne work is done the sheets are again
S2uilteu, SO that if single one or even a
4 poItlOn OF q Sheet be missing, tits known
peiofe the days work closes and who is re-
SpoDslDle Tor the loss. With these checks
upon every one who has anything to do
WIN me printing, cutting, counting and
paeking OF greenbackS, bonds, stamps, ETC.,
IL seems impossible that populations could
occur. An interesting feature of
the printing department of the Treasury is
That the largest part Of the work is done by
women. They are employed 10 counting
The sheets used in printing bonds, notes,
stamps, etc, and in printing, cutting, coun-
ting and putting up in packages to be sent
on. The reason given for their employment
is that they have been found to do the work
more expeditiously and more accurately.
and are regarded as mora honest than men.
That is a compliment highly honorable to
woman. There are q large number of
women employed in the various rooms of
the building, something like eight hundred,
at salaries ranging from 500 to $1,000 a
year, and they give the same satisfaction
throughout as ia the printing department
The facts which have rehearsed will show
the WONDERFUL growth OF the financial Ope-
ratlons OF the government since Robert
Morris presided over the Treasury
department. Tor the departments
through Wnich have been strolling have
been added since the war. They were I'M
known TO Mr, Morris. The operations of
the Treasury under his control, were con-
nned 70 receiving and paying out the !egti-
mate revenues. ..-r.#
II HOW THE MONEY GOES.
Now that we have been looking through
some of the operations of the Treasury. Il
will be interesting to the reader. especially
as he Is taxpayer. either directly or indi.
! rectly, or perhaps both, TO learn something
as to how the money which be and millions
| lust like, paw into this great mopey-mjD 10
be ground out. not so much for the benefit
ofthe government IS for that of the favor
lies of the reigning dynasty, / have at hand
the figures carefully collated from Official
sources by a competent gentleman. and
am tempted to annex. them for the informal
ton of such as NAV perusa these letters.
/ coDynpres
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tat;,-a. g., 4to -. ,-a;,I;, d.. III,
Ta oicerS cia-I-s arS ,a.sn,,co-s ~ 1 tho
Sen.ta Ssst asi5os SIe6 100. "a 9he so ,n
ofico~s 81 ,ba 49, 49, com 600
nc yoIino mr. v,atUof7 tbo Ton;tof "a -
aro,,pJ the I;t,Io norI+s 'a anoosin o S
Ss9 o00 IT, ~, 81
~ e 100
Honsa co. 900 ' yTSo S;ttie c.su ~ suo
md in The Sanota q 0n0 7. 600 1ho 49, go
ate SAC. 600 for paekinp. hoxes- folding doom.
nlents. furniture. fuels GAS and furniture
wagons. 1t costs the House for WAGONS
and cartsoe Sf6 NOa. The commItLee |
clerks of the House cost S33. 600. and of the |
Senate SIS. OOO. The Secretary of Abe
Senate and the Clerk of the House oct Sd
400 each. and tha Tjharian of C0ncrass
gets $1,000, An the clerks In The Iibrary
of Congress, taken together. require s26,-
600 wear: and the Iibrary is allowed only
SO 5O) mar annum tn huv hool,s nurchase
files Of neriodicaIs and newspaners and ex-
change nnblic documents with foreipn COW
ernments.
TIE ,,,-r,TJr. 4,prSTT,e
Costs An enormous sun. and the spnronrIa-
lions almost aIryavs fan sho-t sill x IL
questionable whether on tbe whole, we do
not dignity ourselves. and confer benefit on
tbe no1ptry nv msintainino. az wa undoubt-
edly do. The most nerfact printing establish.
ment in The world moi excaDting Nano-
Icons p-ipting bonse in Paris. as h used to
be maintained. For the present wear. there
will be annropriafAd for the public printinp.
S655,0O0 for composition and press work;
sos, 900 for paper to print on; $685., 900 for
binding books, and $4,000 for engraving
and map printing.
THE WHITE house,.
Gaming To executive appropriations. we
find That two policemen. two night watch |
men. a doorkeeper and an assistant door. |
keeper, at Lha White House, cost uuitedly |
S. GOO. The Presidents private secretary |
GETS s.. 500: his assistant $500: two of the |
Presidents clerks S. 300 each: the White |
House steward. who buys the Grub and gets |
I'D the dinners, $1,000, and the messenger |
Si.2OO,
THE STATE DEPARTMENT.
At the State Department it costs SD 900 |
to publish the laws in pamphlet form: and
for proofreading. packing the laws and |
documents off t6 our cons8ls. and snch. we
snend S47. 900 annually. The eternal Nex-
lean Commission costs rs ZOO a wear.
and our Commissioner GETS 81. zoo. and the |
Empire, who lives ont of town and is sell
dom called on, $4,000. The Spanish Com
mission costs ms S15 OO0- The biub Joint
business at Geneva was provided for nv a
snecial annronriafion of s950 0OO. They
drink over there nothino less Than Cham.
hartin.
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