The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-07-09

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with one another
1t is reported that the com
committee will report upon the Peru
Chilian investigation next week.
The conference committee on the legis
lative, executive and judicial appropria.
stion bin met this morning but made little
progress.
FoIGER's REPORT
/ Secretary Folger. in his report on the
Doyle government bond counterfeit case
after explaining the method by which the
Treasury guards against taking inacounter-
feits, says that no duplicate bond has yet
heen presented. and therefore no counter
felt has been present. Two or three OF
these spurious bonds were taken from
Doyle at Chicago, and it afterwards ap-
peared that9hree spurious bonds had been
| before that pledged as collateral with a
bank at Peoria, H. There were then taken
from him in all 204 spurious bonds with
one thirty dollar coupon attached to each
bond, and fourteen detached coupons of
the same kind and denomination, and the
three bonds that had been thus pledged
were afterwards surrendered to the officers
of the secret service force of the govern
ment making in all 207 bonds. It has
been stated in public prints that $22, &C.,
600 in nominal amount of spurious bonds
were struck off by the counterfeiters
and that many of them had been put in
circulation. The record book disproves
this for all out 278, eco of the bonds of
this denomination had been presented for
payment. Surely if $4,000, 600 of the
bonds or tithe of it had been placed in
! the hands of the innocent holders long ago
some of the bonds would have been offered
for redemption The story of large
amount being printed and put in circular
| ton IS believed therefore to be baseless.
| It has also been stated in the same way
that more than 204 of these spurious bonds
were found on Doyle and that by act or
connivance of some one employed in the
secret service some of excess over that
number had been sent af1oat, promising
that the 204 found on Doyle and the three
pledged with Illinois bank bonds and cou-
pons attached to them and the fourteen
detached coupons are now in the custody
of the government and by actual count are
shown to be there. 1t is further true that
| the belief that ne more exist than as above
| stated rests upon official report of officers
of the secret service made on oath and
upon the investigation lately had. 1t is
almost certain that no more were ever in
the possession of Doyle than 207
In regard TO the statement that the
plate from which the spurious bonds were
struck was either itself genuine or was re-
produced from genuine dies and work and
that means of doing it were furnished by
someone inside the department. l am
satisfied that these allegations are entirely
unfounded. Doyle was brought to trial
the second time at Chicago, May Cd, last.
Shortly after that, Samuel M. Felker, a
department IN behalf of Doyle and offered
to surrender the plate from which the spu-
rious bonds were struck and proof that
twas genuine work from which real good
bonds were struck or that twas produced
by work that genuine work
or use of it was had by completely
with officers and employees of the govern
ment. / have no reason to suspect that
Felker was not sincere in the matter. He |
did put the plate into possession of this
department and promise was given him
that an effort would be made to get suspen
sion of sentence upon Doyle, and an assur- |
ance of clemency if through his means it
should be proven that matter from which |
the spurious bonds were produced was
procured from officers or suboEdinates of
the treasury department, The purpose of
this was to convict men who had proved
recreant te the trust confided in them by
the government Nothing has been shown
to this department tending to prove that
any official or employe of the government
had anything to do with the
production of spurious bonds or
of plates, dies or any part |
thereof, from which the spurious bonds
were struck The plan of parts of it were
furnished to Brockway or Spencer by Chas.
L. ACiCIoIOtC uud1i
suspicion of completely with counterfeiters,
and whose employment by the bank note
companies and by the government has given
him facilities for the improper exercise of
his skill 1t is not known that more than
one die of those that made up the genuine
plate, from which this denomination of
bonds were printed, is now in existence |
Though the records of the Office are not as
complete as desirable, he mentions various
expert opinions which have been rendered I
at his solicitation, and says that each re
port declares the Doyle bonds were spuri-
GUS, and so unlike the genuine as to be de
tected by the inspection of an expert, that
ne part of the counterfeit plate was taken
from genuine; that the whole and every |
part of the plates are spurious, differing in
many details from the genuine.
The export reports are then given in
full Lee pronounees all the plates coun-
terfeit, and enumerates many differences
between the genuine and false. He is
very positive, and sees no reason why any
bond expert could ever be deceived. Mr.
Rhodes, another expert, gives a scientific