The New York herald., 1879-08-10
MR.. GLOVER'S OWN COIN.
CHARGED WITH HAVING AN AXE TO GRIND IN
HIS CONGRESSIONAL INvEsIIGATIoN--AS OPEN
LETTER FROM MIR. MPaEIsoN

CAAlsGLD Win haNANu nv AAE ~ IN
HIS CONGRESSIONAL INvEsIIGATIoN--AN OPEN
LETTER FROM MR.. MPaEGsoN.
PHILADELPHIA, August s, 1879.
Mr.. Edward Mcpherson, of Philadelphia. formerly
the head OF the government Bureau of Engraving
and Printing has written open letter to Congress-
man John NJ Glover, OF Missouri in reply to str.c-
lures and charges contained in the report of his
celebrated "Giover Committee presented the last
Congress. This document is pungent and spicy III
its language and Drstes with lively personal allu
sions mainly the The following passage
is specimen OF the style and OF the let
teri
A COUNTER CHARGE.
Carefully reading your report" understand the
cause OF the nialignity you show III it, You have
to grind You wish to restore to the bank
corporation tie work now done by the bureau for
nopoly OF 1t. and they received from the United
States the enormous sum OF sil,sie.OOJ for work
don,. These corporations miss this work. Their
DIVIDENDS have ocon small. 1t any, since they lost
IL. 1 regret that their private work has
not proved profitable, but they are not sim
guar in depression OF profits. Last Con-
gress they tired to regain tue iost government
work lney proposed to abolish the bureau and
divide among themselves its work. They employed
for counsel man emine nee aud several OF
renown. The Committee ON BluAilg aud Currency,
OF wh,ch your able colleague, Judge Buckner Was
chairman. were specially charged by tine House with
the Investigation ot this question. They heard 1t
patiently; heard. what you never do, DOth
judgment, aud dccided against tho cain
ana in OF the continuance OF the Bu-
reaus work. Beaten before ono committee, the
corporations sought another Repeled by Judge
Buckuers committed. they sought Mr.. GlOyers
committee, somehow got inside or it. anu your ere
port" is the consequence. In IL You distinctly
recommend the precise project winch they pre-
sentcd to the House aud lost in the Committcc
BANKING and CURRENCY What their publicly
plo. ed and announced counsel were unable N get
from the committee 10 whom the House rcerred
the question, you have given them from u commit
tee to whom the House did not refer the question.
a RIGHT TO HONEST INQUIRY.
In concluding Mr. Mcpherson says:--
have thus noticed every allusion, believe, which
you have made To me. concede that public officers
have no right to complain OF criticism. but they
have right to honest inquiry as condition prsce
dent ana to be judged by the facts, not the peryer
sions OF the case. You dare not deny that, the
first time in many years, the bureau oi Engraving
and Printing is business footing; that only
those who render service paid; that every
paid according to the value OF his work that
penses have been largely reduced that only the
ciiicicnt sober and useful have been retained
promoted that only the least efficient have been
discharged; that, as admitted by Governor Bout
well, i'll argument for the bank note companies be-
fore the Committee on Banking and Currency, mo
where In the word is there ~ stem OF checks so
bureau: that the recent work OF the bureau is so
superior defy the counterieiters and that thus
economy, safety and perfection, the three great
scntias. secured as they have been before.
Nor can YOU put your nngcr single dollar Ot
pcndlturc while WAS III charge of the Bureau Tor
which the government did not receive equiya-
lent.