People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — Shortage Is Admitted [ARTICLE]

Shortage Is Admitted

New York, Aug. 21. —The World publishes a special from Washington to the effect that the report of Expert Myers of the fifth auditor’s office, which has just been presented to Secretary Carlisle, shows that Ainsworth R. Spofford, the venerable librarian of congress, Is behind in his accounts owing to bad methods of bookkeeping. In an interview Mr. Spofford admits the shortage and offers to make it good, bui denies any attempt at robbery.