Show Coin Shipments Discussion of the method of transfer ring coin from the San Francisco Sub Treasury to that in New York which has been adopted by the Government is now going on in the press and there has been some severe criticism upon the policy of shipping through the mails The Secretary Secre-tary of the Treasury is unwilling to pay r the high rates demanded for transporta tion and insurance by the express companies com-panies and has therefore adopted the plan of having the money sent through the mails at the risk of the Government This is economical but it is not safe Neither is it exactly just to passengers traveling on the railroads for of the vx I trSrdinaV temptations held out to tram wreckers should lead to an attack lives might be sacrificed in the disaster Secretary Sec-retary Manning to whom these objections doubtless occurred was at first inclined to have the money shipped by United States war vessels but the difliculty < of i i getting it safely transported across the i i Isthmus of Pannma caused the abandonment abandon-ment of this plan Besides it would have i 1 been just like one of our illfated naval craft after taking on a cargo of fifty mil ilion i-lion silver dollars to have a collision md sink in midocean There is another plan TshipiSwhich has doubtless occurred ito of i-to shipment many persons as both economical and I to the Government feasible This is for I charter an engine and as many cars asit i needs load the ° coin on this special train i under a the continent and send it across guard of soldiers If there are valid objections propoal they have Dot i jections to this I yet been pointed out11ta Calfornio |