Show senator tillmans tillman s counterfeit bill As the story is told in the south senator benjamin tillman of south carolina received a counterfeit bill in part payment for his lecture on the race question which he delivered in savannah ga he ile deposited it with the financial clerk of the senate in washington and soon after was in formed by letter that it bad had been sent to the treasury department and had been pronounced a counterfeit and punched full of holes A savannah bank from which the bill had been drawn made the loss good to the sen ator |