Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-19
TONS OF GOLD AND SILVER. The Count of The Moneys In The
 United States Treasury.

The Count of The Moneys In The
 United States Treasury.
 WASHINGTON, May 19.-On the 25th of last month the press dispatches announced the appointment of committee to count the moneys in the United States treasurer's office here, and Few days ago it was an nounced that the count was practically com pleted. The report of the committee, which was completed to-day, shows that ex-United States Treasurer Wyman's statement of as sets reported on the 30th ultimo is correct This ''treasury count' is necessitated every time there is change in the office of United States treasurer, so in this case, MT. Jordan having succeeded MT. Wyman, three gentle men, MT. Cassell, representing the outgoing treasurer, MT. Smith, the new treasurer, and MT. Daskam, representing the Secretary of the Treasury, superintended the count. Forty expert counters and as many clerks who kept the count were steadily at work nearly three weeks counting the paper money, bonds, etc., and dozen clerks and as many laborers were hard at work for week or ten days counting the gold and silver coin in the vaults. Some idea of what is involved in a treasury count may be gained by a mere statement of the vast sums of money handled, counted and verified in this recent count The specie han dled aggregated nearly twelve million dollars, about nine million silver dollars and a half million minor silver coins and two millions and half in value of gold coin. The silver coin weighed about 270 tons and the gold coin about Az tons. This hard money, strictly speaking, was not counted, but weighed. The silver dollars when originally placed in the vaults were put in bags, each containing $1, 1000, coin and the bag weighing 5914 pounds; the gold was in bags containing $5,000 each, bag and gold weighing IS 1-2 pounds. An actual count by piece was only made of a few bags the start to ascertain the proper and exact weight of bag of $1 900 in silver or $5 ,000 in gold and afterwards of such bags as wera not satisfactory in weight. But very few bags either of the silver or gold fell short of the standard weight and in such instances actual count showed the re- quired number of coins, but with a few of them sufficiently abraded to account for the deficiency in the weight of the bag and contents. When the last bag was weighed and the record footed up not dollar, not a cent, was missing. So the committee report, predecessor, MT. Wyman, has handed over to him every dollar of hard money that the latter claimed was in the vaults here on April 30. The paper money and securities handled embraced re- serve fund of nearly $164, 900, 900 made up of $31, ,0OO, 900 in United States notes, s104, GOO 900 in gold certificates and about $29, ,000, 900 in silver certificates, also interest checks and coupons aggregating ss,OOo, ,OOO, unissued clearing house certificates amounting to s55 900 900 and bonds aud coupons amounting to $345, ,0O0, 900, total of $572, ,OOO, ,000, which, added to the $12 GOO, 900 in coin, make count, of $5S4, COG, 900 in coin and paper values as the net result of the committees work.
 The count of the paper and securities was as satisfactory as that of the coin. Every item of paper assets, United States notes, bonds, gold and silver certificates were examined and counted piece by piece, and every package found intact and correct, and the aggregate, in some instances running up into the millions, was found to correspond exactly with the records of the books in the reserve, loan and redemption divisions and in the cashiers room of the treasurer's office.