The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-08-22

$4,000, 900 et Treasury Notes
crettg SCI 1loat aad he Boofs fdlsa.
fed 70 Coneeal he Fact Thc Gote,4-
me,t Reaeems Counterfeit Koaest
Peculatioas Of Radicat 06icials
Congressman Gloyer's long expected
report ON the treasury department aud
its numerous rami6cations Is atlast pub
lished. It is about rs long as two aver
&c Presidents messages, and il hristles
from ore end to the other with charges
Of eorraptionand fraudin republican man-
agement Of the treasury A mere cats
loguc Of all the enorlnities, steals and
deeds Of miemanagement which the
Glover committee profess TO have ult
earthed would fila column fltsa eoses
mittee finds that the Bureau Of En-
craving and Printing instead Of costing
the government s150,000 last year, as
haa been represented. cost over $780,
600, about Sic ,000, ,000have been wasted
or stolen IN this bureau in the sixteen
years of It's existence. .It is remaIkn-
bio and alarming. continues the report,
''that this corrupt aud law-defying bu-
reau las printed notes and bonds for
which the government il liable 90 the
extent of SO, $50. 600, and that, while It
has been conducted with extreme secie.
CIV, it has done IS, $4,000 within nine
years past. and also $4,000, 0,000,0 900 of
revenue stamps Thousands Of doilara
have been obtained from the treasury
as interest on registered bonds by forg
ing powers Of attorney for their collect
ion, the forgers in many cases having
eonfedeFates in the treasury
The report gives numerous inatances
Of alleged crooked work on the part Of
treasury employees, and then goes on TO
attack the management Of the customs
service. the secret service and the cot
ton seizures ia the south. Il states
that the secret service appears to have
been used largely for blackmailing pur.
poses and prosecution Of private indi-
viduais, and that men are employed in
II without test Of qualification, proyid-
cd they have what seems 10 boinforma-
ton against persons. The report then
brings to light lot Of scandals connect
cd with theworking Of the secret service
and with the management Of the mints.
II devoses a column to the money max
ing sehemes Of the lnfe Prof. Linder-
man. director of the mints. IL char
ges that the paper on which the gov
elnment current Issues is printed, Is 50
carelessly stored that a large amount Of
il can be easily stolen for counterfeiting
purposes. What has been said of the
paper applies also to tho careless eusto-
dy Of the dies. rolls, bed pieces and
plates from which securities are print
--,l. Affti II strgzsiE'-s svsYsirsurs- tfr re
port, "that each Of the last three presi-
Dental elections has beenfollowed by an
announcement that large amounts Of
counterfeit notes were af0at. One of
the oldest engraycrs in the country tea-
tiiies that when q note Is ss like the
original that il cannot be easily detect.
ed, rs many couuterfeits it cannot real
Is be a counterfeit, but must be genu-
inc note surreptiously printed from gen
uine plates or from secret productions
Of those plates. The government has
redeemed SIS, 900, 80 notes which
were afterward held to be counterfcits.
The superintendent Of the plate print
ing testified that theplates Of the pos
which the secret service had captured
were from the genuine bed pieces.
which must have been borrowed from
the bureau to make them The $500
counterfeit greenback Of 1873 was in
spected by expert engravers, who swore
beyond all doubt thai the note came
from a genuine plate or from a snrrepti-
tious reproduction Of one.
A brief inspection of the treasures !
books revealed the fact that s 10000
of notes we're at one time secretly afIoat
for several months, the treasury state
ments during that time being false to
that extent, aud the fact of that secret
issue remained unknown until lighted
on by the Glover committee. The
books were falsified and balanceforced
to conceal this secret issue by untruly
stating that $4,000, 900 had been de
posted as a temporary loan, when nc
such deposit took place. The reports
concludes by stating that matters need
much more investigating that by nc
other method can the people learn th,
truth about the government, or congress
get the information necessary to legisla
ton; that the treasury is full of oppor
tunities for wrong that have been large
ly used that, as well as other depart
ments, it is run by a ring that th,
government has far too much to do Il
do it honestly and well, and that onl.
by wholesale cutting down of govern
ment power and a wide abolition 0
government functions and offices car
despotism and national ruin be escaped