Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-08-13
CLEARFIELD, Pa, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST I3, 1879

thirty-seven vessels to enforce the Gus,
tom laws - the Treasury having
charge of building, equipment, repair,
purchase and sale Of these revenue
vessels, and of the examination, ad-
mission and government of cadets
therein-a network OF assessors, col
lectors and other Internal Revenue
officials reaching over tho whole
country, with the United States Army
and the Federal Courts to uphold
them the construction, illumination
inspection and superintendcnco of 66C
lighthouses, and of the light vessels
beacons, buoys, sea marks, fog signals,
and Of the arrangements for saving
lives during shipwrecks along the en-
tire coast and on many rivers the in.
spection OF steamboats, and boilers on
every coast, river and lake in the
United States, including 1000 vessels,
and examing and licensing $4,000
pilots, engineers, etc.; hospitals and
physicians for $4,000 sick or disabled
scamen, located at New York, San
Francisco, Baltimore, New Orleans
Louisville, Boston, Chicago, Mobile
Detroit, Key West, Portland, Me.
Pittsburgh, Norfolk, Philadelphia, ST.
Louis, Cincinnati, Galveston, Cairo,
Savannah, Washington, Evansville
Cleveland, Milwaukee, Binghamton
and Newbern; the United States
Coast Survey, whose operations ex-
tend over the interior and along the
northern lakes; the supervision Of the
sealfisheries and other matters in
Alaska; the registration, enrolment,
documenting and mortgaging Of $4,000
American vessels, the entry and clear
ance of 81, 900 vessels yearly from and
for foreign countries, and the admeas-
urement and tonnage Of all these
twenty Especial agents" engaged in
detection of smuggling and frauds
a "Secret Service" employing many
persons profcssedly in detection Of
counterfeiting The Treasury is
charged with the custody Of funds
held IN trust by the Government for
Indian tribes with the organization,
supervision and winding up of 1000
National banks the publication Of
charts of the "Coast Pilot; the custody
and manufacture of standard weights
and measures the engraving, printing,
issue, redemption, destruction and en-
tire management ofover 81, 900 000, 600
of public debt and 500, 100000 Of
paper currency the coinage Of S0,-
900, 900 gold and silver dollars yearly
the construction and custody OF nearly
all public buildings; the preparation Of
the statistics of commerce and naviga-
tion the collection OF hundreds Of
millions Of customs and internal reve-
nue. yearly from the people the final
scrutiny and settlement Of all the ex-
penditures of the Federal Government
and the keeping of the Governments
accounts, Since 1861 over $4,000, ,000-
900 have passed through the Treas.
urys hands.
In 1877 the aGraves Committee,
appointed by Secretary Sherman to
examine the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, reported that in the Treasury
Department especially the efficiency Of
the supervision Of its chief authorities
is greatly impaired by the vastness Of
the field which its administration GOV
ers" In 1874 the Committee of Ways
and Means reported to the House, in
connection with the Sanborn case, that
the responsibility for official acts is
very loose and easily evaded, subordi
mates being able to control matters
supposed to be decided by superiors
Secretary Boutwell, reported in 1855
regarding single branch of the De-
partment that, at is impossible for the
Secretary of the Treasury to give tC
the various questions that arise II
managementof the system, the atten-
tion which is essential to the service.
sINEoUREs BY THE HUNDRED.
In the Bureau Of Engraving anC
Printing 1t was found that shortly be
fore last years elections nearly 3OI
needless employees were put on thu
pay.rolls. Instead of the Bureau cost
ing about $4,000 in tho fiscal yea
1878, as has been publicly represented
it really cost the Government in va
rious ways over s900,000 thus: