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Show l'iuuey nud the Sliut. San Francisco, 21. This afternoon the treasury commissiou began the examination of charges preferred by George M. Pinuey against Lagrange, superintendent ol the mint. Pumey'a evidence was to the etiect that when he was employed in the mint the fund to pay employes was very low, and the fund for the purchase of supplies aud material full; that be by the direction of Lagrange, in purchasing purchas-ing supplies, would make out bills largely in excess of the amounts due, and the surplus, after paying the bills, hu would return to La-race, La-race, but whether the latter accounted account-ed to government for such amounts or converted them to his own uae witness was unable to Bay. In general, gen-eral, his testimony was not of a conclusive con-clusive nature. |