Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 17, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 October 1908 — Page 7

UNCLE SAM $500,000,000 = WEALTHIER i By ELLIOTT D. YOUNG I | Treasury Officials Coin Great Amount of Emergency Currency. I

OFFICIAL currency I stretchers of the UniI ted States government I have ready $500,000,000 I in emergency notes, I created by the Aldrich- ■ Vreeland law, which " can be put out at an instant’s notice to nip

financial panics in the bud. Great progress was made by the treasury officials in getting the monster bundles of notes into shape to be issued nt a moment’s notice. Hardly had the bill which created this emergency currency passed the gauntlet held up by congress when treasury officials were at work to put

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the notes into such shape that they might be put upon the market. Acting Secretary Coolidge of the treasury overlooked the work and the bureau of engraving and printing which put out the currency was in charge of Superintendent Ralph. Each day Superintendent Ralph delivered into the hands of the treasury officials between -$2,000,000 and $4,000,000 in the new style notes. Before the end of summer there was over SIOO,.ready for delivery to the banks on call. Congress meets again in December and then the legislators will be greeted by the great outlay of cash. If there should be a panic this fall, which is far from likely, officials declare, this great amount of emergency currency would be delivered to the stricken districts within a few’ hours and it is believed the trouble would end with the appearance of the cash. Up to August 1 only one emergency currency association had been formed, but soon organizations began to materialize all over the country and the interest in the new act was heightened to a great extent. The banks of the District of Columbia had their articles of association approved by the secretary of the treasury about the middle of July and to them belongs the honor of being the first members of an organization authorized under the emergency currency law. The banks in New York and other financial centers were not disposed to fully commit themselves pending a de-

termination of the question whether a bank joining an association could withdraw from it after complying with all the requirements of the law. The treasury officials regarded this question as purely academic but they took the matter under consideration and a decision was reached on this point in a very short time. The act itself is entirely silent on the subject. The proposition of putting out such a great amount of currency was one which held the bureau of printing and engraving in its throes for many anxious months, for it was pointed out wffien the measure finally passed congress after a long fight that while it was decidedly improbable that there would be a panic this fall, it was certainly necessary that the currency be ready for deliverance in case unsettled conditions should introduce themselves into Wall street and other big financial centers of the country. Rut if the w’ord of the framers of the AldrichVreeland statute is to be believed no such conditions can arise, simply because of the existence of the emergency currency act. Most readers of congressional news in the daily papers remember well and followed closely the struggle which took place in both the house and senate coincident to the passage of the bill. The senate refused to accept the Vreeland bill, manufactured in the lower branch, while the house of representatives could see nothing but evil things in the Aldrich measure—that is, the majority. Speaker Cannon of the house paid several visits to President Roosevelt at the White House. The executive insisted upon work being done by congress, if it were only this law. Finally the opposition forces met in caucus and then there was another caucus, most of the points in dispute being settled. The bill passed the house with much acclaim from those who had aided in effectthe compromise. Then came the struggle in the senate with Senator LaFollette, Senator Gore, the blind legisla-

WHO BURNED MOSCOW CITY?!

Confession of the Incendiary as Sequel to a Story of Love and Hate. Historians of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia have for more than a century been trying to discover whose hand it was which applb d the torch to Moscow or gave the order for the conflagration which precipitated the French emperor’s retreat, says the Washington Fest. At the time Count 'I m'odore

\ Cash Must De "Ready for Distribution, \Jnder Aldrich-Vreeland Act, Dy the Time Congress Meets—Hobu the XOorK^ of Getting Money in Shape Is Accomplished.

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U k nl xgß tor, and their aides in (Vil the role of the opposing u I minority. Everyone familiar with parliamen- ' tary rules of congress knows that speeches are jOJ " limited in the house, but vZ.. in the Semite a man may hold the floor for months, providing he has something to talk (■■■Bn about. I saraj® Senator La Follette, the man who takes but little rest from his labors, spoke for 18 hours. It was a memorable speech because of its length. Then Senator Gore took his

place and spoke for quite a while longer. All this was done to keep Senator Aldrich and his friends from putting on passage the compro- ] mise measure. It was regarded as a certainty ( that the bill would pass and so the opposition s idea in the beginning was to keep on talking until midnight March 3, 1909, in shifts of eight hours each. Whether it was by prearrangement or by accident, few will ever know, but the fact remains that when one of the filibuster aides neglected 1 his cue, an Aldrich supporter jumped into the breach, secured the floor and made the motion to ' put the bill on passage. It passed and ended one of the most spectacular filibusters which legisla- । five circles of the country have ever recorded. For that reason the United -States now has $500,000,000 in emergency currency ready to put out at an instant’s notice to stem the tide which a panic would bring upon the country. Then came the work of engraving bills of every denomination in the offices of the bureau of engraving and printing. First the rough paper was received. It was cut up into strips upon machines which cut many thousands of notes at one time.

1 Rostopchine was said to have been the incendiary. In 1823, however, he pub- , lished a pamphlet, “The Truth Concerning the Great Fire of Moscow,” in which the blame was laid at the door of French soldiers made mad with vodka. Now. however, the granddaughter । of the governor-general, Countess i Lydie Rostopchine, in a biography of * her grandfather, substantiates the

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I original charge against hi mand says J his denial was due to influence exerted over him by his beautiful wife. Just before the city was taken he had sent her to a distant province for safety and on the evacuation by the French he had implored her to come back “to a husband who worships you and who respects you beyond all others.” At the time the count was 47 and the countess 35. In his letters to her he had frankly admitted that he had given orders to fire the city. When he was accused of the deed by

In the meantime the dies were cast by the engraving bureau This engraving required the greatest care for a single deviation in lines upon the copper plates meant that the bill would be thrown out and the '. entire plate v 3uld necessarily have to be made O'er again. Dozens of experts were |ut to work upon the plates. The dies made, the work of testing ami finally printing was entered into. It was perhaps a month after th? measure was passed before the presses were set in motion in the printing offices turning out notes of great and small denominations. An army of clerks was rendered ♦ r-. IrAzw. lx z-».^ th/. C

necessary to keep tab on the plates, paper and invoice the notes to the treasury department. As fast as the bills were turned out by the department of printing Superintendent Ralph, who is in charge of the entire bureau, personally inspected samples and ordered them turned over to the treasury officials. They were then stored in the vaults in the treasury offices —— —*< and are now ready to be turned out to I'fi banks enrolled in the emergency currency associations. ONE MAN’S MYTHICAL REASON. - ' After Several Hours He Remembered His Dinner Engagement. Dinner had been ready and waiting X7-C?A-x 20 minutes. The wife of the tardy guest was very much embarrassed. || Just to think that her husband was so ru de as to be late at a dinner engagement and keep all the guests waiting! After a while the belated Gne arrived, redfaced and perspiring. SOSSfe*.. .^aaMßaMMas.

“So sorry to keep you waiting,” he said. “But I was detained at the office! with an out-of-town customer. Just couldn’t get away.” The excuse sounded ali right and was accepted by the hostess, but it was a |myth. The truth was: Preoccupied, he had gone home from the office at the isual time and found the house locked, much to Lis surprise. Where in the mischief were his wife and children? he wondered. W’hy didn’t the® tell him they were going away? * He went all around the fiouse and tried the doors, but they were locked. Then he found a piece of iron in the backyard and broke open a window and crowded in. He crowded out through the window for the evening paper and crowded back. He read the paper, and still the wife and children didn’t return. At 6:03 o’clock he remembered the dinner engagement. While he dressed and rode 20 blocks the guests waited. But others have made the same blunder. —Kansas City Star.

the French officers she implored him to deny the accusation. The secret might have been buried with him but for a subsequent discovery that his wife had repudiated the orthodox religion and had become a Roman Catholic. He became embittered and morose under the shock, cut her off in his will and left a sealed package containing the truth about the Moscow fire only to be opened and made public a century after the date of his marriage. This duty has fallen to Countess Lydie Rostopchine to carry out.

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