Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-18
NINETEEN MILLIONS.
The Attenpts of Treasury officials to Ec-
plain the Deficiency Of S10,OOO,O 900 in the
accounts.

washington Gully 15) Spec'l to Chicago Times.
Defenders of the treasury are trying, through
the press, to break the force of Glover's expo
sure of the false entry and forced balance of
$4,000, 900 on the treasurer's books, By assert
ing that Glover has charged that $19, 900, 900 of
compound interest notes, the secret issue
whereof was concealed by this false entry,
were stolen, and replying THAI the treasury
records show that they were accounted for.
This no one has denied; but on the question
whether deficit existed before, to conceal
which this balance was forced, the treasury or
gans are dumb. This is the real point, and
Glover has never charged that there
was deficit, but has said that
further investigation was needed to decide
whether there was. The fact that treasury in
fuence defeated the resolution giving Glover
power to carry on the investigation during the
recess, looks as though there was something to
be discovered. 1t is claimed that the treasurer
merely charged himself with $19,O00,000, and
took credit for like amount delivered for
transportation to assistant treasurers and de-
positors. This statement takes no account of
the fact that the treasurer was charged with
$4,000, 600 transmitted, but that these
amounts SO transmitted were not charged at
the time of transmission, but were carried for
some time on the books as though still on hand
unissued, and were taken out of that
account and charged as transmitted
on the last day of the fiscal year, while
their transmission was balanced by
false credit of $l9,0O0000 deposited a
| temporary loan when no such deposit had
! been made, and when even the false certificate
that it had been not made till after the
close of the year wherein it is said to have oc-
Cured. Whether a defalcation took place or
not, this shows that the treasury figures were
untrue, and that the public was deceived to
! the extent of $4,000, 00G 1t is further urged
that the po,tponement of charging the trans
mission is lmmaterial but this is not true
when the charge was made at "a false date, and
| when this false date concealed the issue and
| facilitated untruthful publication. 1t is also
said that the fact that the money was charged
as a temporary loan received instead of az
notes issued is mere question of book-keep
ing. in which the public is not interested; bu
there is a difference between false ant
truthful bookkeeping. and the pub
lie is interested in knowing whether the falls
method has been pursued In other cases
whether it has covered theft in such othe
cases, whether other secret issues have occurred
ard if so whether they have been accounte
for, and whether the public debt and the cu1
rency are or have been larger than the treasur
has represented them. The public would ais
like to know to what extent the accounts
the treasury generally have been cooked,
Glover says he has evidence that they ha'
been. 1t Is also sought to belittle the $19, O0C
900 transaction by calling it an old affair; b.
this simply means that the operation was Il
thirteen years successfully concealed, viii.
shows how many more may be yet undisco
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