The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-06-24

struggle to carry on such an or
ganized assimilation. But finally he
got all his meshes in good working order,
and one fine afternoon he respectfully re-
quested the Secretary to step down to his
office. whittier he had invited the Regis
ter and the Chief CT the Treasury Police.
Then message such as is heard in the
office forty times a day, that sthe Gen
eral would like to see him. was sent to
the clerk, who answered it promptly and
unsuspecting. As soon as he crossed the
threshold, the General walked over to
the door, locked it, turned to the Secre-
tary and other officers aud said: s.Gen.
tlemen, this man 8 name is -. He has
stolen $4,000; if he says he didn't he's
a. liar, for have the proofs After
which novel but direct way OF admins
tering Justice, the General left them to
deal with his prisoner. The money was
all recovered, think.
Another time he played detective, and
by hiding behind door discovered a
woman stealing notes from the clerks
desks, but that amount was small, for, as
he says,
WOMEN ARE TOO cowARDLY
to take big sums. In 1870 $4,000 was
stolen from the Division of Issues lin the
Treasurer Bureau by two men who
came into the room with party of visi-
tors whom Collector Tullock was show
ing through. The chief of the room
thought they were Mr.. Tullock' friends,
and Mr.. TulIock thought they were the
chiefs friends, so they passed leisurely
down the long aisle, and while one add
dressed question to the messenger, who
was watching the money table, the other
slipped the little package tit was in 500
notes. into his pocket. Sixteen thousand
dollars of that was recovered.
Two or three years afterward an over
hauling of the books Of the Office revealed
deficit of about $4,000 in two officers
accounts. When these gentlemen were
called on to explain they calmly and can
didly avowed they had taken it, and said
simultaneously that they were very much
relieved by the avowal, as it had been
great lead to carry. Part of this amount
was also refunded.
When you come to group these thefts
together in a period Of twelve years they
seem to be appalling, and every outsider
will be Immediately ready before he has
read this far to load with wholesale abuse
all the clerks and ridicule the sagacity of
their superior officers. But, my friend,
there are two sides to this picture. Just
spend
ONE DAY IN THE TREASURER 8 OFFICE,
step out on the gallery that runs around
the cash room and watch the tills, the
drawers, the piles of money that lie on
the counter below; walk through the Re
demption Division, where hundred wo-
men pick over the bundles of filthy
money that come from every city in the
Union; look in at the door of the Divis-
ion of Issues, where other women, with
fingers flying SO fast you can scarcely fol-
low, count the great packages of new
money, that goes to every city in the
Union; run your eye down the long col.
umns Of figures, six deep, in the ponder.
Gus ledgers of the Office and count up the
millions that pass through i: daily, chang.
ing from hand to hand, now in one form
now in another, and then perhaps it will
seem TO you that the wonder is ten times
as much hasn' been stolen. And, if you
still think somebody's to blame for care
lessness, you might come down here and
try to run it yourself, and see how your
accounts would balance.