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Lost--one Hundred Millions

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
September
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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We uear n KOoddeaJ now and thcn in the papers of what is nalléd conscicncc money. This name ís given to the sums, for the most part rather inconsiderable, wbich are t'rom time to time sent nnonynously to the Federal Treasury, vith letters setting forth th1 they are paid in acquittul of dues to tho govermnont whicli had been feloniously withheld until il1 oonscience of the debtor refused any lonpinui liini repose. If there be anything approaching to a rvivalot' honesty throughout the country, as we ure som itimes osked to believe there really is, we oughi very shortly to roud of quite the largest sum of ' onney" ever paid into the st o ig box oi tiic ' Por : ome plain, from thestute8. BoutweU, Beoretary of Treasuryi and Genera) Spinner, ifle of more thai lioné of dollafê is missing from ( be Treaèurj of i ; ! States. aro the statements rcferred to : i United States I), tit, .luly 1. 1871 ....$: . 19.1,211,382.2! ■il' Bï Ti:J-ASríJ . United . 0,821.08 : : over Spinnor ... f109,630,611. II Tiiis is i protty serioua disorepanc; Ii Hot r That there is nol now, and long time past basnot been, anything in Injinistrativo aystem f 1 1 1 o Treasury ko t even sei lifficult for sui'li a deficit to bu cv mtly appaars, as e submit, from tin' statement made the other d.iy by r R. W. Taylor as to the milddllars roported lost on tUe (Jolden Rule steamship in May, 180.3. Comproller Xaylor quiei iy announcea that thia groat Bum ot money was sent forward trom the 'i'i'.i' isury ÍOT Bhipm ui. as " ;i ui' lurgu troasury notos, $1)000,000," witli no Btatemenl oithor "of the donomihatione the nuuibers," and ho adds th.it "no record of the donoininations or the numl r w i kopt." That it uhoul I be p ■■-.l! ■ tú foiai even ■ hundied ;md ten millions of nnlawfully issuL'd bonds upon a Xreasnry which disdaina to keep tli.: slightesl record of millions sent oui ' iiu it need surprise no one. And :is thcre is no reauon to espect í ij.it the Badicul majority in Congreas will this year permit that thorough overhauling oi'tho ïreasury aooounts whioh thej li tve herctofore steadily resisted and defeated, v rmitted to the operatione of conscience t'or our only ohance of over seeing these hnndred and ten núlliona of dollars upon which the labor of the country is payine between six and seven millions of

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Old News
Michigan Argus