Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-08-07

corruption. Its employees mt Washing
ton and throughout the country are
the retainers Of the secretary of the
treasury through'whom he wields in
fluence and who are paid for their
party work out of the public treasury.
In this connection we have this speci-
fication:
In the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing it was found that shortly be-
fore last years elections nearly 300
needless employees were put on the pay
rolls. Instead of the bureau costing
about sl50,000 in the fcal year 1878,
as has been publicly represented, it
really cost the government in various
ways over 100000.
The cost of the bureau for the six
teen years of its existence is so mixed
in the treasury accounts with other
matters that it could not be precisely
ascertained without the labor of n
number of competent clerks for many
months. According to the best ut.
tainablc information at least SIT 900
600 have been spent Of it, much Of
which has been wasted or stolen. The
report gives list OF expenditures
which are officially shown or admitted
to be needless or fraudulent, n follows:
isc.,. dry printing .................... s-.aoo
i.@-s .S,,- ,"., ".i,r9.sss IT,. 800" ~.
is, a@iSs smpl@ys. =, es.,, 80. i-o5oa8
isii. elaes.l,g prs',.. o. r',nrGf ffasGaaai
,-s,--, y",lsn =, =, .,..,2 y'.
l.,-.s, .ssrs.t,. rus-. 4 fIspsr....-.... aor.o
S,.irs., @as,a,,a.. '.,'. -. iaao
i''e-' :,,,i n9a4'.1'. fractional 'af''no' de- -..
Is55-e us....s.. l7lat.os IN frasf.naI rar,
ISIS. .,s ~ arx la. .f.a. ......... . ... se
m.
l"'7, 'h' report state l. nF no
means inc "ho'e ."ss, n"t SIMPLY what
c'u'u "' "-gSf'a -, tame" III the u'ne "t
c'''''"""' ne amount "NefHiA"h
ana vase" ID iH.S = a.c'F'aih'a from
tue hsuFe7 iuTh''heh ny the ch'ei "i
.,'' IN bureau ,,,t 70 Tue '@i''l'',''' anu iF"'h
t"' "'''> ''''"'t'd ny anu l,a'h |" Tue
nui''" TOT ""fA lot "'her bureaus ut
'"e,o '''"'7
'''tS T., sl,. 't.,' - ''A'''' r,.r.., o,.-,..c.
IIesal '-naer' r'...t-@ ~ = slgl-'2 > uza.l e
n'as go asnss.' ,,' -osii 10 ts,3 .sSs "a. - -
,-.c,.--. .--..-.-.c .-----,- 49, =.
AlI ns~ laaaias
"''--''''''.''-'' .--- - =. b-'' % l.le- .'
Ta'''-.......-s's'.ole % s-s1'-' 50 s5az1a So
In exclamation of the items desrri.
bed above n. "nccdle~.." the report
show. that they were the result or allie.
gcd invention. rurcbascd hv the dc.
partmcnt. of which employc.' in tho
department were mart owner. For
example. the dry printing" fraud was
an effort to print fractional currency
on dry paper by hvdrostatic pressure,
In this attempt $500 900 were wasted
bv n proCe..c1 inventor and !, now
turns ont on inucction Of the secret
archives of tho Patent Office that the
then chicCof the burcau was mart own.
or in the worihle.. patent. The eva.
tcrproo,inr" fraud was n nrctnnce to
make preenbacks and fractional cur.
reucy watarproof hy dipping tho ancr
into n mixture Of wairr sas,ila sban
and some other ingredients This bath
had no GOOD effect and tho mixturc
cost about five cent. n Gallon vbilc
from 80 to 05 cents wa. naid far il
some further facts illustrative or
the MANAGEMENT or n. engray;py Ian.
rcau are givep in detail.
The prInting &C bank no,c. ha. hccn
taken from The comn,ruller &c Tho chr.
rcpov in v;ola,;o, nf Tho law ond nm,
into hi. corrupt bnreau The pript.
ing of the backs oC greenbncks frac.
tioual currency and bonds has ho.n
taken from rcsponsiblo and sk;llGnl
cpgravcrs--also In disrcgorJ and yio.
lation of law--and i now ali done in
that concern; and the revised statutes
have been hammered with !, male !,
so.n, Lawful rL;s c,,.or,r,,;n,, .c