Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-06
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ment........ 2f7, 567, SAL "a
This table is taken from The official
Finance Reports OF lS70lS7l and makes
comparison between the Secretary 8
and the Registers statements Tor the
various wears named. The Secretary 8
table, which appears in the Finance Re-
port for the first time in 1870, shows a
large increase OF the public debt over
the statement oil the Registers. In
1870, by order OF the Secretary, the Reg
listers office went back nearly forty
years and changed the statement for
each year, from 1888 To 1870, largely in
creasing the amount of the Public Debt
Statement; Tor the year 1862, ten million
dollars in round numbers; for the year
1865, twenty million; for 1864, seventy
five million, while for 1866, 1866, 1867
and 1868. there is a total decrease OF
about twenty-five million, and an in
crease for 1869 OF S99,000,000, and for
lS70Oi S9i.0OO,OO0.
The report OF Senator Edmunds, OF
Vermont, made in 1869, admits that
there are nearly S60,0000O0 OF bonds
and notes, issued by the Treasury De-
partment, unaccounted for.
DR.. Guiliord, an officer oil the Treas
ury Department, testities (see testimony
taken bv the Committee on Treasury
Accounts, pages 81 and 239), that he
was ordered by the Secretary TO add 10
the Reinstatement of 1870, e, 293, S27. %,
which was not on the books, but was
added 10 make the statements harmon
ize.
The testimony taken by the Senate
~ Traoc,,ry Accounts
shows plainly that there arc on the
Led,ers OF the Treasury Department,
thousands of alterations, and changes,
and also on the warrants, involving hun
dreds OF millions OF dollars.
The ensures, alterations and changes
on the day books and journals, are so
/ numerous that We did not undertake to
count them.
The testimony shows, and it is adj
United by all, including Secretary Sher-
man and Treasury officials, that the
Warrant Division OF the Secretary's OF
\ fee issues all warrants, and that no
\ money can go into or out OF the Treas
I ury except on warrant-the Warrant
Division notifies the Comptroller, Treas
urer and Register OF the last warrant is
sued for each month, quarter and year,
and that the four officers named do and
have always compared accounts once
each month, quarter and year, and II
they did not they were made TO agree
this being So, how could the Secre'a-
~, many wears after the books and &C
counts had been closed, and officially
reported to Congress, change or alter
the figures decreasing the revenue, and
largely increasing expenditures, and the
Public Debt.
| might give many more examples oil
the croOkedness OF Treasury accounts
and books, but ought no: to take the
time, believing the facts given are more
than enough 10 satisfy anyone, that
when all Is known. there will be many
millions Of dollars traced to improper
uses and parties. Leta change OF all
ministr,tion come and many develop
ments will follow that will astonish the
country.
FEDERAL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. SEMITIC
WEST VIRGINIA.
Col. Gorham, Secretary OF the Nation
al Executive Republican Committee, IN
1873 testified before the Wallace Conn
mittee, that he collected III 1910 aoout
sos OO0 from Government employees,
and that b. sent $3.50 OF it to the First
Congressional District, and $500 to the
Third Congressional District OF West
Vi.inia-there being no Republican
candidate in the Third District, the $500
mnst have gone to aid the Greenback
candidate showing that the Rspuoii-
cans age giving aid to the Grcenback-
PTS.
INTEREST rAID on PuRLic DEBT.
We have been told and it is generally
believed that the Public Debt is decreas'
inc. aud that less interest is paid than
in former years, but il you examine the
official Finance reports it will be seen
that the Government paid interest as
follows: