Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-24

=
lized it and went out. Subsequently Mrs.
30 xie received the congratulations of score
If Senators.
MINT MIsMANAGEMENT.
Further Details of the C4o0kedness of Dit
rector. Lindernaa1a---4 Shameless Waste
of Funds.
Washington Dune 18) Special to Chicago
Times.
The following points in the Linderman
case are condensed from a statement drawn
up under Mr.. Glover's direction by George
w. Edelmann, formerly deputy treasurer of
the New York assay Office, who has been
employed by the committee as an expert.
They are fronl the records, and are the re-
suit of the investigation by subcommittee.
It is shown that $14.179 more than the mar
ket rate, and 500, 5000 more than the amount
reported by Linderman, was paid to the
Consolidated Virginia Mining company for
a $1,500,00d purchase of silver. He re-
ported that he paid about five cents per
ounce more than he really did, and made
the company an extra allowance of $4,000,
though the money had been carried to the
treasury, and though the payments were
against the terms of the contract, regulation,
and law. It does not appear that the present
to Linderman's wife of 81 900 by the en-
ployes of the San Francifco mint, which he
admits to be improper, has ever been re-
funded. Linderman has paid out besides
his own travelling expenses, which the law
allows him, over $4,000 to score of per-
sons, some of them near relatives. The ser
vice rendered by Frank H. Gassoway in max
ing an inventory IF the furniture, machin-
cry, bullion, and coin at the minis on the
Pacific coast, if it was of any value, could
easily have been performed at slight ex-
pense by persons on the ground. In re-
porting the receipts and expenditures of the
New York assay Office. the records have
been changed to show a loss of $4,000 in
was tages and to conceal net gains derived
from surplus bullion recovered by the nelte1
and refner in his operations of 1000.
making Justification of $194,O00. The un-
explained differences between the statements
of expenditures in the annual reports OF
1873 to 1877, inclusive, and the statement
report foot up 100000. The Consolidated
Virginia Mining company of which pur-
chases of silver were made on terms sc
/
| in Linderman's wife and brother hold stock
| and the one which Prof. Rogers, of the
Philadelphia mint, was sent at government
expense to visit, Rogers elaborate report
| and maps being published by Lindermar
also at government expense and printed il
his annual report for 1875, stock thereupor
| rising in the markets to five times it's former
price. The statement holds that Lindermau
RI oil n
| rust, and malfeasance in Office in repeated
Instances, and has prevented tens of thou
sands of dollars from reaching the treasury
which should have done so. The statement
also declares that the directors last annua
report contains many gross errors and mis-
statements, that it is calculated to misleat
instead of to enlighten Congress and tn
public. Linderman is trying to save him
self by characterizing these statements O
ascertained facts as charges and accusations
and intimating that Glover had no business
to inform the President of the result of tn
inquiry. He also talks of the evidence re
! garding his acts as hearsay, when in fact i
| is from the records and not denied by hin
before the committee. The fact seems to b
that he was fully heard in his own defens
before any communication was made to tn
President or press, and that he has managed
to prolong the inquiry far beyond the neces
sary time, and did carry it beyond the tim
when the report could be made at this ses
sion. in so much that Glover became con
WINGED that his purpose was to protract tn
investigation so that it could not be fnishe
before the adjournment. It was finished
though, and the laying of the results befor
the President was piece of keen strategy O
Glover's part which Linderman and hi
friends did not expect, and they are muc
enraged at it. They taking advantage @
the absence of Glover, who has gone HON
worn out with the toll of his investigations
to spread erroneous impressions concernin
the matter, even going SO far as to accus
Glover of personal malice toward Linde1
man. The latter made large part of hi
defense consist of assaults on the characte
and motives of the expert, Nh. Edelman1
which he was allowed to do, and Glover say
that when called on to prove his charge
Linderman utterly failed. Linderman ais
INDUCES in stale talk about discharged en-
ployes" and ''conspiracy,'' but when presse
for denials of specific facts does not answe
Glover's friends say that Linderman, and
fact all the officials whose conduct has bee
questioned before the committee, have bee
treated with consideration which they 8
not seem at all to appreciate. Had tn
testimony been taken with open doors, {
, had Glover published the substance Of
| from day to day he conld have kept tt
newspapers full Of damaging statemen
about many men, but he has resolutely r
, fused to publish anything injurious to ar
man till it was proved, and has incurred Il
name of doing nothing rather than publis
, improved statements.