Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-12-28
MONEY, MAkERSi
" '95.
FACE |DLENESS
Deficiency Created by De.
maDd for Notes Greater
Than Expected

Washington, D.. c. Dec. 27-Urging the
immediate appropriation of slightly more
thar half a million dollars to keep from
dropping 800 employees Of the bureau OF
engraving and printing for six months
or furloughing $3.50 men for ten weeks
Secretary McAdoo has forwarded the ur
gem recommendations Of Joseph Ralph,
director Of the bureau, to the House Q!
Representatives, where it is now befo,t
the appropriations committee Unless The
expenditure is authorized by Congress
according to Director Ralph, it will be
necessary to lay off. 800 employees for six
months, and the director states thu toe
long a delay in supplying the none vii
result in laying off the entire force Ct
1850 employees engaged in the 'lakmg
of United States notes and & i an.' sill
yer certificates, for the last ten w.cks
OF the present fiscal year..
Other Expenses Of Bureau.
The Secretary of the Treasury asks for
$74,1S2 for distinctive paper 70 United
States securities, which will purchase
Is, $50, 900 sheets, and also pay for tat
salaries of one register, two assistant
registers, five counters five watclllncr
and one skilled laborer. For labor and
expenses of the bureau, for salaries OF
all necessary employees other than plate
printers and plate printers assistants
$96, 072 is asked for; for wages o. plate
printers at piece rates for the remainder
of the fiscal year, an additional S?9Se.7"s
is wanted, and $50, 1928 is estimated as the
supplement- Estimate on plate pointers
and engravers' materials.
The necessity for this urgent Ie;i:ien
cy appropriation is attributed !: THE ~.
creased demand for slnalr lot's, which
is. evidenced by the condition IF tire re.
serves. which showed a total CT 5.1J2 Mc
notes on September Is, 1913, as co!nplr
ed with 31,SS4,00O a year prior.
Director Ralph explains II tn; request
that "laundercd notes" arc l,,t being
washed fast enough Which makes j
necessary to provide for a larger OUTPUT
in the latter half Of the present fiscal
year. and this it is expl.ine |, viii use
up all the note paper and salary ALLOW.
ances far in advance Of previous est
mates.
TOO Busy to &c Waslirl.
He cites as an Illustration that it laG
been represented that 100 0oC notes woult
be available daily for washing in The
s%ub.treasury at New York. when as 4
matter of fact only about 5000 is TIM
daily output, due to the fact that Tho
qlantity Of notes in Giro liari,n is too lin.
tied to permit the banks ID send III more
for laundering.
If the request is den cl. says; D.rec.
tor Ralph, 1T will mean the reduction o.
daily deliveries Of notes :rom 1.v.s.tc(
to 62S, 900 in the remaining six months
Of the fiscal year. This would also nc
cessitate the reduction OF .hc force 4
the extent of about 800 emr'.,.,cs for IS
months of the present fiscal ;4l" Il
action is delayed, and If meantime the
deliveries to the Treasury should have
been continued at the rate of 1,O28, 00O
notes daily as at present until they
amounted to the 24o,O 900, 900 appropriated
for, it would become necessary to dis.
continue entirely the delivery OF notes
to the Treasury in the last zen weeks
of the fiscal year, and it would be absr
lutely necessary to furlough without pay
the force of 1850 employees now en,sag
ed in the manufacture Of United States
notes, gold and silver certificates.