Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1842-05-27

Ietler paper 987 49, report and on
Velope paper 2,Il4 IS; drawing paper
81 %6; tape 2,l32 0G; waters and wax
9Sl 45; sand 202 3S; blanks l2 500 IS;
knives 433 "a; checks and certificates
800 20; ink 70l SO and sundry other
items not enumerated, four thousand |
seven hundred and six dollars and three
cents; making IN all tho gross amount
OF HItyone thousand seven hundred Il |
three dollars and twenty two cents
The rePor', after enumeratng the
boVe expenditures. produces a tabular
statement TO show the difference be
tween their actual market price and
the price paid for them at the custom
house. We will extract o few instan.
ces from this table, which will suffice 10
show that great favoritism, 10 make the
least oi II, was extended 10 the parlIcu
lar manufacturers and statesmen.
Paid by Mr. Hoyt for cash books,
qures each, 20, market value dolls,
tor imPosI books, Two quires unbound s
dollars, market price 10 dollars 50 cts
for book Of fifteen quires bound, bond
books l5 dollars each, store price FIVE
dollars each, Treasury notes books 6
dollars each, market price, A dollars each
masters oath 2 on a sheet Sl2 per
ream, market price 81 per ream, pens
by the card largest and best 81 85 mar
ket price 80 cents by the card or S6 by
tho gross, letter paper So per resm,
market price S3 so per ream, foolscap
SO per ream, market price 81 per ream,
abstract paper SI40 per ream, market
price S47 per ream, sand SO 50 a peck,
market price % cents per peck.
Thus in the same extravogant ratio
do we find every article purchased for
public use under the administration OF
Mr.. Hoyt. During the last quarter Of
Mr.. loyPs coiIeclorship, including 90
days while J. Morgan was in office, and
few days before the commencement
ofthe second quarter, the expenditure,
under various heads Of books, stationary
and printing, amounted to the enormous
sum Of S8,72l 60. $5,4l6 II cents Of
this sum was debited to the COLLECTOR 8
and storekeepers Offices. in which there
was 79 clerks, making an average o!
S2D5 76 per annum for stationary for
each person attached 10 these Offices -
For the single item Of steel pens and
qniIIs, Of the latter Of which were or
dered and hardly worth mentioning,
there was paid during the three years
of Mr. iioyt's administration the sum Of
$500 l6 the price Of which was char.
ged in the bills rendered aud paid By
Mr.. lioyt, at the minimum of 50 to the
mailman Of S22 per gross, when the
same article agreeably to the testimony
of David Felt, +. ]. Emo and Joseph
Hayden, large dealers in the article
could have been supplied at 4 dollars 50
cents per gross or card al 2 dollars Is
cents Ia boxes.
The teport states that Mr. Emo offered
to supply Mr.. Hoyt such pens az he paid
dollars per gross, lorst 81 50 per
gross. but he declined The offer so deci
dedIy as to prevent repetition Of
The report further states, it is wor-
thy Of remark that all the supplies for
the custom house were furnished at sec
ond hand by individuals in it named Sc
Iected by Mr.. Hoyt to whom the oppor
lunIty was afforded Of purchasing al The
rates or even lower than The estimates
contained in the deposition of Davil
Felt and the increased price paid lc
them by Mr., Hoyt constituted an enor,
nous profit whiIsiitis manifest that lhC
wholesale dealers would have supplieC
the same arllc es at the reduced ratel
, mentioned by Mr., Felt, the winess. OF
; which he statesthere would have beer
TO the statloDer clear prof, from 25 II
80 and a third per cent. This system
, Of lavorilism so inconsistent with tn,
public interest and fair dealing. wa
uniformly extended TO The most vioen
. part'zans who earned their favor b,
their devotion 10 the hands from whicl
they received it. The aggregate sun
} of Sl2,S69 IS was paid for printing va
rious descriptions Of blanks during thr
. term of Mr.. Hoyt, which is estimated
at one half more than the same wou|t
have been done on contract by a regu
=, lar printer. The sum paid 10 suppl,
= the persons employed al the store OF
$ Staten Island from which the qurran
] tine ground Of New York was supple
: with stationary in 1889, 40 and part Q
8 Al, is put down at 1883 dollars 81 CT
d 1t is shown that such an amount of sld
t tionary was neither furnished as pre
= tended nor used by the storekeeper sn
!. his clerk the only persons employed 0
Q that place
d 1t seems also that Mr.. Hoyt rented
}, on his own private account, five store
l. winch were used for the purpose Of de
If posting goods belonging 10 tho govern
Vt ment, and after paying the expenses il