On March 11, 1862, the president asked the “watchdog of the Treasury Department,” First Comptroller Elisha Whittlesey, to help him stop the padding of bills: “Once or twice since I have been in this House, accounts have been presented at your Bureau, which were incorrect—I shall be personally and greatly obliged to you if you will carefully scan every account which comes from here; and if in any there shall appear the least semblance wrong, make it known to me directly.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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