The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-07-17

of the light vessels, beacons, buoys, sec
marks, fog signals. and of the arrange
ments for saving lives during shipwrecks
along the entire coast river and lake III
the United States, including 600 pilots,
engineers, ETC.; hospitals and physicians
for 2S 900 sick or disabled seamen, loca'
ted at New York. San Francisco, Balti'
more, New Orleans, Lonisville, Boston,
| Chicago, Mobile, Detroit Key West
Portland, Me-; Pittsburgh, Norfolk Poll
adelphia. 81. Louis, Cincinnati, Calves
ton, Cairo, Savannah, Washington. Ev'
Ansville, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Bipg
anton and Newbern; the U. s Coast
/ Survey, whose operations exteud over
the interior and along the northerI
lakes; the supervision of the seal fish
cries and other matters in Alaska; the
registration, enrolment, documenting
and mortgaging of $4,000 American yes
sells, the entry and clearance of 81 00C
vessels yearly from and for foreign conn
tries, and the admeasurement and ton
mage of all these; twenty Especial agents
engaged in detection of smuggling and
frauds q "Secret Service" employing
many persons professedly in detection
of fcounterieiting. The Treasury is charg.
ed with the custody of funds held 10
trust by the Government for Indian
tribes with the organization, supervis.
ion and winding up of 1000 national
banks; the publication of charts Of the
"Coast Pilot;" the custody and manu-
faclufe of standard weights and meas
ures; the engraving, printing, issue, re-
demption, destruction and entire man.
agement OF over $4,000, 900 900 of public
debt and 500 900 ono of paper currency ;
the coinage of S0000,00 gold and silver
dollars yearly; the construction and
custody of nearly all public buildings !;
the preparation of the statistics of com
merCe and navigation; the collection of
hundreds of millions of customs and
internal revenue yearly from the people;
the final scrutiny and settlement Of all
the expenditures of the Federal Govern.
ment aud the keeping of the Govern.
ments accounts. Since 1851 over $l9,
100000 900 have passed through the
Treasury's hands.
In 1877 the Graves Committee" ap.
pointed by Secretary Sherman to exam
inc the Bureau of EngraVing and Print.
ing, reported that sin the Treasury
Department especially that 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 on Ways
aud Means reported to the House, in
connection with the Ssnborn case, that
the responsibility for official acts is very
loose and easily evaded, snbOrdinates
being able TO control matters supposed
to be decided by superiors. Secretary
Boutwell, reported in 1859 regarding
single breach of the Department that,
ut is i'm possible for the Secretary of the
Treasury to give to the various questions
that arise in the management of the sys
ten the attention which is essential to
the service" f "
sINEcUREs BY THE HUNDRED.
In the Bureau of E 1graving and Print
ing it was found that shortly before last
years elections nearly 300 needless en-
ployes were put on the pay-rolls. Instead
Of the Bureau costing about $l50,000 in
The fiscal year 1873, as has been publicly
represented, it really cost the Govern.
nent in various ways over $500, 900, thus
Aggregate expense Of operating the
Bureau" Chiefs report) sci SO
Paper used. 1926 81
Material In stores, dimuDiuOn Ofstock. 81 $50 l5
Working MaCerator ator......................... 1900
aent made necessary ary..................... T. 90 90
lite for pew building ...-................ 1856 0J
interest on value Of machinery and
lO,ZZ9 o9
interest on value of dies aud rolls..... II 1893 Al
interest on value OF plates............... 39S7 SO
interest on value OF material aud stores
carrled',..., ZOoh w
interest on value Of paper curried.....,.. 5000 0J
interest on cost Of unfinished securities
carried. 2056 80
Approximate aggregate cost ".,,....,SSS2,52S so
About million and quarter of pub
ic money is permanently invested in the
Bureau, thus:
distinctive paper on hand May /. 1877. S9O0,0O0 90
pace occupied In Treasury BUILDING. ZIG 666 GO
iaChlnefy and .............,....... 3 65l %
lOo y47 Do
'ee huu IOlB..''. 1bb OJT 30
Engraved steel plates Go 632 %
iachiDe shop and site 5000 OO
Unfinished notes, bonds and stamps
carried and on hand. ..,..,,,.u,.,...... 656-817
Approximate nvestment"."........"8l 2A, ,339 98 |
$270000 900 WASTED AND STOLEN.
Wherever approximate figures are gi.