The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-05-16
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

visions of that reported by the majority Of the Judiciary
COMMITTEE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
FRIDAY May l5
The Speaker laid before the House a number Of
Executive communications which were read and or
dered to be printed
BUSINESS OF THE DISTRICT or COLUMBIA.
| Mr.. CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS, of Tennss-
see asked leave to submit resolution setting apart
the first Tuesday in June for the consideration
Of the bills relating to the District of Columbia To tho
exclusion of all other business
Objection was made Of course for there are al
ways members iberal enough to resist every PROPOSE
ton intended to benefit the citizens Of this District
Mr. WILLIAMS asked suspension of the rules,
which was rejected So majority refused to give
day to the consideration of matters in which this
District Is concerned
ExrRAvAaAsT EXPENDITURE PUBLIC PRINTING.
The House then resumed the consideration Of the
unfinished business Of "Wednesday, being the reports
Of the majority and minority of the Select Committee
on the Public Printing.
A motion was made for call of the House, and re-
jected
The question then put on the adoption of the
following resolutions reported by the minority, in SUBJ
stution for those Of the majority and decided in the
ncgative--Ayes &c. Nays l07. So the resolutions Of
the minority were rejected
| Resolred That as it appears by the evidence two
offers have been made to execute the public printing
for this House, at the rate of twenty five per cent
less than the prices fixed by the joint resolutions of
March 3, 1879 and the other at the rate of 20 per
cent less than the said prices this House do not deem
it expedient pay the printers thereof higher rate of
compensation than the prices at which other persons
are willing to do the work who competent to per-
form it. Therefore,
Resolved That the printing of the present House
Of Representatives executed since the election of the
printers TO the House, and hereafter to be executed
shall be paid for at reduction from the prices fixed
by the joint resolution passed March Sd 1879 At the
following rates, to wit
Per cent.
For the price for composition Of every page
Of small plea plain work, at reduc-
Of every page of rue-work, small plea, at
| reduction of ~
OF every page of BREWER rue-work, at
reduction Of 80
OF composition of all other kinds at a re-
duction of 10
For the price of presswork of every de-
! scrption including paper, folding, stitch
ing, including all materials and deli
! very at the Capitol, where the ordinary
number of copies are required, at a re-
duction of Is
And where an extra number Of copies, not
exceeding 5000, are required at a re-
duction on the extra numbers OF 80
| And where more than s 900 are required 40
Resolred, That the accounts for printing shall be
made out heretofore at the prices fixed by the
luton of 1919; and in another column, against the
| amounts carried out against each head Of expense
shall be set down the reduction each sum at tho
foregoing and in third column, the nett amount
to be paid agrceably to the foregoing resolution.
Resolred That when the document paper
is printed for both Houses of Congress, and the com
position of the is charged in the Senates print
| ing, charge for composition shall be made in the
House printing, except for such necessary alterations
| of headlines, &c. as Is required
The question was then taken on the adoption ofthe
following resolutions Of the majority, and carried in
| the Affirmative
Resolped, That the printing of Congress, unless
when otherwise specially ordered shall be done in the
following manner and form, and be paid for at the
prices hereinafter set forth.
For the composition of every page of bills So cents
of every page of small plea plain work, IS cents; of
every page Of rulework $l 7O of every page Of bre
vier rulework, So o. and for larger form of bre-
| yier rule work, in proportion
For the presswork of bills, including paper folding
and stitching, for fifty copies, u IA cents per page
for four hundred copies, Isl O6 Ia per page; for the
press-work of tables other than those of the regular
octave form, for six hundred pages, including paper
folding and stitching ss4 81 10 per form; for the
of the Journals of nine hundred copies in
Guiding paper folding, and stitching, IS cents per
page for all other printing in the octave form, of six
hundred copies, including paper, folding and stitch
ing, 4l0 cents per page; and, for larger or smaller
number, in proportion.
Resoired That all the bills shall be printed on cap
or doube-cap sized paper, of quality equal to that
on which bills at present printed and shall contain
not less than 1888 plea joint resolutions shall
be printed the same paper in the same type and cs
tmated in the same way as bills Every octave page
of printing small pica shall be executed paper of
royal or double-roya size of the same quality
used and shall contain not less than 732 ems and
every BREWER page shall correspond with the above in
size and quality and shall contain not less than 5000
ems The orders of the day and calendar shall be
printed in small plea type on cap double cap paper
Of the quality used for bills, and each page shall
contain not less than 1895 ems; the composition
thereof shall be paid for at and after the rate of price
paid for royal octave pages of small plea; and the
thereof shall be paid for at the same rate az
charged for the press-work of bills
Ali plain or figure work shall be set in small plea;
and when there notes side notes, they shall be
set in brerier All rule rue-and-fgure work shall
be set in small plea when 1t can be brought into pa res
in that type and when cannot be brought into pages
in small plea it shall be set in BREWER; and when
cannot be brought into pages with either 1t shall be set
in BREWER broadside.
Observation-Disclosures AND THE POLITICAL PRESS.
The SPEAKER then announced that the next
business the separating the patronage OF the Go
vernment from the political press OF the country.
The report of the majority opposes any separation
| az not only nexpedient but unconstitutional.
The minority recommend the separation and report
a project of bill to effect that object
Mr. GARLAND moved to refer back the whole
subject to the Select Committee with instructions to
report the blI recommended by the minority.
MIR. ATHERTON moved to lay the whole subject
an the table, which was carried in the affirmative:
So The proposition to divorce the Government pa
tronage from the public press was defeated
THE suB-TREAsuRY BILL.
Mr.. JONES, Chairman Of the Committee OF Ways
| and Means, asked the indulgence Of the House TO
! ,usnend the rules ,chch set apart this day for Ira
oorsidsrntion of Pirate BHs to 90 into Committee
| Of the Whole on the state OF the Union nc added
| that should the House 90 into committee ne would
move that the "Independent Treasury o-, DC taken
| uf.r, cDr.yyrp -, H., until the rucs should