Identifier: picturesquewas00moor (find matches)
Title: Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments ..
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Moore, Joseph West
Subjects: Washington (D.C.)
Publisher: Providence : J.A. & R.A. Reid
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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they were inmates of a prison. The Register of the Treasury, who has charge of the account-books wherein all the receipts and expenditures of the governmentare recorded, and the Comptroller of the Currency, who has chargeof the national banks and their circulating notes, are important offi-cials, and their divisions have numerous officials and employes. TheRegister has a salary of $4,000 per year, and the assistant register$2,250; the Comptroller has $5,000, and the deputy-comptroller,$2,800. The departments of Customs and Internal Revenue arevery extensive. The Commissioner of Customs has a salary of$4,000, and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, $6,000. TheDirector of the Mint, who has the supervision of the mints and assayoffices, has a salary of $4,500. A large amount of important and very beneficial work is performedby the Secret Service Office, which is in charge of a chief with a sal-ary of $3,500, who reports to the Solicitor of the Treasury. Counter- THE SECRET SERVICE. 187
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HI II IJI\<, leiting, and the numeiouscunning devices employed to traud-ulently obtain money and landsfrom thegovernment, are investigated by the Secret Service agents,and evidence obtained to convict offenders. The office rooms in theTreasury Building contain an extensive museum of counterfeit bank-notes and coins, and the plates, dies, and moulds used by counter-feiters, and there are also collections of photographs of the fraternity.The office keeps a thorough record of cases and of men, and it canfurnish the fullest information concerning hundreds of persons whoare ranked among the dangerous classes. It is thought that theSecret Service does remarkably good work in the suppression ofcounterfeiting, when the extent of the country and the wide varietyof the government money are considered. Many of the most skilledbank-note counterfeiters have been given long terms of imprison-ment, and those who are at liberty are kept, as far as possible, underclose surveillance. The greatest di

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