The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1839-01-10
We demanded to know how the following could be

We demanded to know how the following could be
justified in The contingent expenses OF the House
" Blair & Rves, printing for committee 1888 90
Blair g. Riyes printing loo %
Mr.. Riyes answers
/. "The first item Of 1858 SO, was for printing done
\ for the Dasiiag Commhiee" He says he was elect
ed" "eoafdeatiaI" printer 10 that committee, upon
the recommendation Of Mr.. WISE We have only
TO say that, IL one committee can do this, all the
other committees may do the same and thus the
Printer Of the House be illegitimatey dvesied OF
his rights under, at least an implied, contract
" The Sl06 80 was for printing done by Blair and
Rives Tor the House of Representatives, while they
were printers Of that body, which was not paid for
! until Thomas Allen was elected in their stead"
We stated that the Globe had received from the
Senate, doubtless, $4,000" The Senate paid for
printing, 1888, $751;, 1913 o. Mr.. Rives answer diff
/, fers slightly, TO wit:
81 believe we have received about ISL ,sl4 GA
from the Senate for printing SO Mr.. Allen is little
under the mark for onceW
And we may add, that this sum for one winters
session, exceeds by Sl3, l66 The whole paid
Gales and Seaton for printing for the Senate during
the whole 24th Congress.
Mr. r, continues:
"We received from the Treasury Department in
the year 1888 for printing 81 366 a. most of It for
work done in 1887. cannot imagine where Mr..
Allen gets the sum of $3.50 72-perhaps Il is
msprint, and The frst3 and should change places"
The sum Of $3.50 70 was for Globe newspaper,
&c, and including printing. Fine imaginations"
and good memories are seldom united in the same
person.
We stated our belief that the several other ex-
'cutive departments paid them in 1888, to judge
rom the past, about $4,000 Mr.. R. says the War
and Navy Departments have paid them nothing, and
hat the Post Office Department paid them 81, 527 25
or printing done in 1887 They are charged in the
:" Blue Book" published 10 1898, with having re-
ceived from the departments, during the biennial
term ending September 80, 1887, for printing &c,
the sum OF 1875, l0l 90 (E. E) OF this sum il is
ported In the same book that the compensation" of
bar and Rives for advertising and blanks during
Me year ending Sept. 30 1887 was 1868 05 from
the Post ONCE Department alone! All these we think
considering the increase of business furnished lust
ground 10 estimate the patronage OF 1888, at $l5-
600. Mr.. R. acknowledges that some work done tor
\ these departments is unpaid for.
We now place two of Mr. Rves' statements in
| juYta position, so that the reader may compare
them, and judge whether their father is wortAy to
have salt in his porridge.
We rcceired from the The payment of what
Post Office Department we do for the Post Office
| on the 18th OF November, Department is withheld
| 1888, S2,527 25, all of from Blair and Ripes TO
achlch irdS for printing pay the delinquency Of
done IN 1887 former Postmaster in
| Kentucky for whom F.
p. Blair entered as sure
ty about twenty years
| ago.
The payment is withheld, and yet the money is
received ''
/ 1t is acknowledged that General Jackson gave
an imperative order 10 all the executive depart
ments for their entire printing" to be given to the
Globe But the order, Mr. r. says, was given dur
ing paxic times and since the old hero has departed
has been sadly broken and disregarded, and grown
as obsolete as Mr.. Blair thinks the lawful disclo-
| sures' are.
4 But We now come to precious admission, worthy
| OF the eandor of an honest salt If we had paid
debt of 900 with $780, we should experience a
great dread of stocks and if we once got into them
in consequences we should expect to be quite up if
the stocks down. and "down 10 almost no.
thing" if the stocks were up pretty tight. Hear the
financial oracle of the Globe:
"Our business Is affected as much by the political
atmosphere as Biddles stocks but il affects us diff
ferently-when the stocks are up our business is
down, and rice rerM. Last spring and summer.
when United States Bank stock up 10 l25, our
business was down to almost nothing. Now, when
United States Bank stock is down to 1874, we do
pretty fair business" .". ." ...... ... r..
To carry out the spirit Of the smile which vain
| ly turks under unmeanng guise, (for Mr.. Biddle
| has longer any controversies with the Go
vernment) the business of the Globe Office, which is,
TO fulfil its allegiance to the administration, by exc
cutting, the partisan duties it assigns, sinks as the
country prospers, and prospers as the country is
depressed. That is the true exposition of the para
ble-that is just what we have always supposed and
truly alleged. Verify, "murder will OUT