Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-12-03

Commerce and Navigation. For which he received
Sooi extra pay tor compositions which he could not
nave cisimeu ny ms contract public priner which
consisted OF only S04 pages lie was ordered the
3th OF February, to print only thousand copies
tor both Houses About the 2o.h of May, each mem
Der OF the Senate received two COPIES of Ia CO.
pies to whit each member was entitled. The remain
ing ~ COPIES are now, in November just arriving in
bundles, by maii-more than nine months after he re-
ceived the order for printing; time enough to have
Sent it round the world, had he used the dies
patch which he claims have given TO the Presidents
Message.
This document was one of immense importance Ia
the American merchants, wei! rs to- large portion
of other citizens. And the only object which Con
gress had in view, in ordering thousand to be
printed, was that the members might send them out
Immediately to their constituents, that the great
OF The community might be early informed upon these
interesting subjects. Instead of answering that pur
pose, they answer other purpose but to give q
good money job to the public printer whenever he
may ma 1t convenient to execute 1t, and TO encumbel
the mail.
l The Report of the Commissioners of the Navy Fund
tund OF charity by the General Government the
support of disabled and wounded seamen was ordered
to be printed the 5th February, and delivered
in. until the Esd of March; more than months DELAY
D"ring all that time, those meritorious nvads were
starving.
He ordered about the 1st of February to prin,
5000 copies of Mr. Cambreicng report, which were
| not all delivered until the 9Th of March, This repor,
was of more Importance to the Southern States than
any other report that has been made Congress for
the last ten years. 1t proved to demonstrations the
ruinous tendency Of the Tariff system After the Let
few copies delivered, it sen, TO the CITY of
New York; there went through a new edition in
pamphlet form. and returned TO Washington about tho
time General Green vas delivering in his last Copies
There about 10000 copies of the report of the
committee indian Affairs, ordered 10 be printed
time in February. Ills first copies were de.iy.r
cd the Sd of March, the last on the Sd of Anil
This report also of great Importance to The
Whole community and especially 10 the Southern
States. 1t printed in newspapers more than
500 miles from Washington, aud returned and read
there whilst Gen. Green yet delivering out the
originals with sparing hand as he could have de-
!vcre the last leaves of the SibyIlin verses b.
he presided over that relic
These cases make good my charge in my letter. of
winch Gen Green comPiared SO much. that he pro.
g'essed so slowly with the public printing that we
could get no documents to send to constituents =
And they prove more. They prove that Gen. Green
had more public printing to perform than he was able
to despatch, consistent with the public interest, with
out giving him another large and important lob TO lie
on his hands until he could find IA more convenient
season to dispose oft. And if he was f. I'M Febrar,
until November publishing the report on Commerce
and Navigation OF only seven thousand copies of three
hundred and four pages each, when would he finish
twenty two Thousand, five hundred volumes of 500 M
ges each; and execute all the other public printing in
the mean time? Then ask, who would have en-
ployed him at any price, if the work was ever tc be
donel
The delay in publishing these reports entirely de-
feas every object Congress had i'm view Before thev
are finished they published all over the United
states, IN every newspaper Then there no induce
ment Tor members to send them their constituents
And they lie about in piles, stale and useless or are
sent to the post Offices and taken cut unless
for waste paper. The public printer is paid more
than twenty thousand dollars year for printing ,f
this character, THAT nobody reads nor wants we h,ve
had no comments upon this waste of the nuhc ~
MES. took occasion, the motion of MIR Grundv
to rescind the Gales & Seaon resolution to read in
the Senate the complaints of General Green in his let
ter to me, of the delay had imputed to him in nnh
fishing the documents. And adduced the renort of
hr Csmbreieng, and the report of the committee on
Indian affairs, evidence of the correctness of tho
was ant n,I
yet speaking he sent me in pencil, the original of
which the following is copy:
W.T. t'reen requests as An act of justice, that Mr.
Smith should say that the Indian reports and Mr.
Cam6reerss report, were delayed account of the
revision OF the proof by the gentlemen who drew them
"''espec.fu!ly,
Receiving this pencil strange way and unwilling
to DO injustice TO Gen Green determined 10 read il which
willing to repair that injury And if delay had been coca
stoned by the neglect of those those reports hv
Upon his Judge White who drew , ,I 10 na
Report and who neglected duty in any thin rose
The proof at the beginning the work Besides how Could
General Green have sent them in for month if the proofs had
nor oeen mad Did he send proofs and others
WIN proofs Mr. Cambreenss Report had also been dropping
responsibility; hy not say instead trying in the face off
the Senate to shift the responsibility upon Judgo Whe Gene
ana write what he pleased and dare call him TO ac
count or he could have put into This predcamen
ut as ms assertions his nnuerdo and editorial remarks
have exaggerated every thing with the Gales s. Sea
'oh resolution to such nons,roms pitch, evidently TO set the
whoe community against every who to vote for that
resolution have given this fact belonging 10 that res
luton to shev with what grains allowance General
assertions and editorial plausibes that subject are TO be
weighed. '' NV " ="
have already given the Yeas Nays as published by
Green in ls Telegraph Of the 22nd Of January on
r L'vin9sion's motion, that the volumes should
no exceed 30, ponyhich the Yeas 40 and the Nav
ana my name recorded in the affirmative. Which he had
AIKEN literally from tha Senate Journal have by me now the
senate Journal ITSELF of the 2st of January of which his
publication of the 2and is literal copy, which my name is
recorded also among the DO affirmative in defiance
d ms own publication; and in defiance Senate Journal
tse and in defiance OF moral principle General Green
tas istncy asserted four different times four cren,
D MS lengthy letter. addressed by name in the reegraph
d Inc 18th April that Iuotcd against limiting The ,oork 10 O
~,mes Had he only have said oDos il might have been
"u'aoe TO accident, mistake, seems to have been
upon hSnS This fact upon and has wanionly repeated
y ,oua ZINES Aud what is still more extraordinary upoI This
ne makes calculation, that nunbef of copics in
nc Pnoishcd by Gales q Seaon would have bce, go 12
Gnu he sum to be given would nave amounted to one million
es hunreu ana thirteen thousand dollars 4 of which no
IN their favour succeeded ' "'" my No'e
M am perfectly aware that gentlemen who may read
may say, ought not 10 have noticed those
publications. or entered into written controversy with he I