People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — Fifty Thousand Lost. [ARTICLE]

Fifty Thousand Lost.

Fifty thousand dollars is a large sum in the country, but it seems to be regarded a very small matter at Washington. The newspapers tell us that a mistake in engraving and printing the new bonds cost the government thissum. The engraving had been made and the bonds printed, but, the papers say, Carlisle had not seen a copy until Wednesday of last week. On that day, Chief Johnson, of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, banded the Secretary a copy. Mr. Carlisle, in a rage, said it was not what he wanted at all. and tore it in pieces. Mr. Johnson tried to explain, but Carlisle cut him off with an order to destroy the xtfhole lot, ans do the work all over, at a loss, say the papers of $50,000. —Exchange.