Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-19
GOVERNMENT MONEY.
No Chance for Dishonest Employes.
 Washington Correspondence of the New York

No Chance for Dishonest EnpioJes' Washington Correspondence of the New fork
 Evening Post.l
 The first question which naturally arises in the mind of person studying the sys- tenn in the treasury printing office is, what is to prevent pressman from entering into collision with a confederate at the paper-min, possessing himself of few sheets of the distinctive paper, and slip ping them into his press while he is in the course of regular joba
 There are three things to prevent; First, he would have to corrupt his helper, woman whom he has no claim upon, and with whose appointment he has nothing to do. as she comes certified from the civil service commission. Next he would have no assurance of ever being set to work at the reverse side of notes of the same de- nomination as that of which he got the first impression He might print one side | of a fifty dollar note, and the time might never come around when he could get a chance to do the other side. But more potent preventive than either of these is | the little tell-tale automatic register which
 
 which records every single impression, light or heavy, made by his agency. He cannot even see the dial, for it is under 6 locked lid, the key to which is in the pock ct of the officer in charge of the room. Il is noiseless, too; and he has no means oi knowing, till his days work is done and his final tally is taken, what the little mon itor has reported about him. If, there
 fore, he should conceal sheet of papel
 about his person and try to run it througl
 his press. the automatic register would
 show one more impression than the mum
 Der of printed sheets he has turned owe | to the dryers, and he would be arrested
 before leaving the building.
 Another possibility of leak seems, at first glance, to offer itself in the theft o imperfect notes The average citizen is S
 poor judge of fine engraving that not would have to be very bad indeed to caus !, him to reject it; and any one who made oi
 with lot of notes good in every respec
 except perfection of execution would have } it seems, an easy task disposing of them Two preventives apply here. One is tn
 fact that the imperfect notes must be ac counted for just like the rest, sheet b sheet, and carried to the maI eTator, ther l to be ground up and made into pull ' But supposing some means were devise s for "beating" the maceretor; even the : the notes are without the red seal and th blue check number. The number is nc d put on until the note has passed inspe' r tien, and for the seal the note is sent ovt s to the treasury department, passing out ID the custody of the bureau altogethe s These features are so essential to the f
 miliar appearance of the note that the
 absence would be noticed by the mo 'i careless observer if an attempt were mat 't to pass them; and their forgery would ae g. immensely to the dangers of detection m soon as the spurious notes were hand .. across the counter of @ bank.
 u Still, some one asks, why may not platt sd which have been condemned and discai in ed, De stolen occasionally and used to prl