Show THE MINT DIRECTOR PROTESTS aliist tin IteiliictlnnN llndi III I tin lstIi tint for Uliil srriiic WASIUNOTON Fet hihA communication from tho Dirottoi of thu Mint wasj cstorday transmitted to this Houso protesting against tho reduction made in estimates for mint servIce by tho Appropriation Committee of tho failure of the committee to provide for tho operation of the Carson City Mint as un assay office lbs Director having expressed his views to tho committee on the subject bus nothing to say hilt 1 with reference to all other mints ho declares that the estimates were made for the smallest appropriations consistent with tho business in each without II reduction of salaries which ho says It Is well known are not such as can be reasonably reason-ably reduced especially under tho olrcum stances that they aro for services without exception of mote or less of nn expert char actor and ace I AT Till LOWEST 1OINT Consistent with skill efficiency accuracy and fidelity in work whoro these tire indispensl bio requisites Ilio director lakes up the cause of iuaufllcietit appropriation in detail beginning with tho mint at Denver Colorado Colo-rado Hero ho says only one third the amount estimated as absolutely requisite for tho operation of tho mlnton its present basis has been made while thero is every reason to suppose deposits will bo largely in excess during tho next year as compared with those in the previous year Concerning tho assay riffles at Dotes Citu Idaho the director di-rector points to the fact that the nustNrss HAS sloan THAN DOODLED During the past year and Has that the appropriations ap-propriations made by the committee will bo I adequate for tho support of the assay ofllco without closing it depositors toward the duos of this fiscal year In the case of the assay office at Helena attention is called to this facts that deposits tf 1If ti have incieased from 757000 to ijil107000 during tho past two years and that tho committee has reduced tho appropriation for Ito support in tho face of the recommendation recom-mendation tor an mcreaso of compcnsaton to employee Site item of vacos for workmen at the Ness YOtil assay office was reduced I fiOOO Iho director I says that no such re auction can bo made without impairing I the ofllciency of tho olllco in a crv important I field of work whore indeed it would bo more extensively and seriously felt than in am other braneh of the mint service |