Show I Tlic SalJTrci ur Shortage I WASHINGTON June firhe Secretary of the Treasury today received a telegram from J A Sample of the United States Treasurers office at present engaged in investigating in-vestigating the affairs of the Assistant Treasurers office ot New Orleans reporting that the shortage so far discovered in the accounts of the mutilated currency and United States notes deposited for redemption re-demption amounts to 25000 It was also reported that the redemption clerk J F I Aufdemonte who is suspected of defalcation has disappeared and efforts to arrest him have proved unsuccessful In speaking of the defalcation today the Treasurer said he proposed to make a full and complete examination exam-ination of the affairs of the subTreasury and to that end has stilt two clerks to New Oilcans to assist Messrs Sample and Crog gon now there The Treasurer says it is possible that the total shortage may be increased in-creased tJ WOOl and intimates that Aufdemonte is not the only person concerned con-cerned in the transactions I |