Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-15
ENDS IN LOVE FEAST.
Plate Printers and Committee
Agree on Compromise.
PARTIAL USE OF POWER
Backs Of Paper Money Only to Be
Printed by New Method.
TO MAKE CHANGE IN SUMNER
Senator Smoot Believes Ultimate
Saving to Government Will Be
100000 Annually.
TO MAKE CHANGE IN SUMNER

The sharp controversy between the
Senate committee on printing and the
plate printers Of the bureau Of engrav-
Ing and printing over the substitution OF
power for hand presses in the printing of
Uncle Sans paper money, ended in
love feast late yesterday afternoon. The
compromise, worked out after patient
conferences between Director ]. e. Ralph,
Senator Smoot and 4. r. Beach Of the
Plate Printers Union. was agreed to by
Attorney j. H. Ralston, for the plate
printers, and by the Senate committee
on printing in behalf of Congress.
| THE adoption of this compromise"
Senator Smoot said today, means that
about $4,000 will be saved at the bu-
reau of engraving and printing next year
and that, at the end of five years when
1T shall have been completely carried into
| effect. about 100000 will be saved an
nually thereafter.
| And I want TO say that believe that
at the end of five years this experience
Will demonstrate to the plate printers
that it is better for them that all
| printing done for the United States
should be done OH power presses. look
for them then to ask that the change
| be made
Controversy Over Power Presses.
The controversy started when the joint
| printing investigation committee Of Con-
| gress recommended the substitution Of
! power presses for hand presses in the
printing Of Uncle Sans paper money,
| and was continued when the Senate COM
mittee on printing ordered a favorable
report on the Smoot printing revision
| bill. authorizing the use Of power instead
| of hand presses. The plate printers en-
| ployed j nthe bureau feared that the
substitution Of power presses for hand
presses would mean the loss of employ
ment by some and would make the paper
| money easier to counterfeit A protract-
| ed fight was still in Prospect
| The compromise, in general, will al
| low the printing of the backs Of paper
money on power presses. but the faces
Will still continue to be printed on hand
presses.
In it's exact terms the compromise
| says, In the form in which both sides
agree it shall be enacted into law:
h,x he 1saS ac the pTov SO of the act
that all bonds, notes and checks shall
be printed on hand-roller presses, shall
not apply to checks, the backs and tints
| of all United States bonds, the backs and
tints Of all United States paper money
and the backs and tints of bonds and
paper money issued by any of the M
sular possessions of the United States
any or all of which shall be printed from
intagio plates and on such plate printing
presses as may be directed by the Secre-
| tary Of the Treasury, said presses to be
operated by plate printers. except that
/ checks and tints may be printed by any
| desired process.
Other Provisions Of Agreement.
Provided further. That the backs of
all United States paper money shall be
printed from four-subject plates and
| the faces of all internal revenue stamps
now printed from intaglio plates on hand
roller or power plate printing presses
| shall continue to be printed from in
| taglio plates on hand or power plate
| Treasury may determine. said presses
| to de operated by plate printers and,
Provided further, That should the Sec
| rotary of the Treasury decide to print on
| the aforesaid power plate printing press
| es any of the classes Of work hereinbe-
| fore permitted to be printed on such
| presses, not more than one-f1fth Of the
| total number of hand-roller presses re-
CURED to produce the estimated guam
tity OF such work in any fiscal year shall
be displaced in such fiscal year, and.
Provided further, That the Secretary
| of the Treasury may. in his discretion,
| apply motors to hand-roller presses that
| are now, or may hereafter be- operated
| in the bureau of engraving and printing
| but such presses, If equipped with mo-
| tors, shall be regarded as hand-roller
presses within the meaning of this act"
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