Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1844-01-26
wATCHMAN & STATE JOURNAL.
FRIDAY, JAN. 26, ls44.
From the Washington Globe.
WHO ARE THE SPOlLSMEN ?

| the following which 1t says is cOpied from the
Vermont Watchmnn and State journal Of Dec
| 18th, the State paper of Vermont and the nc
knowlcdged organ Of the Wing party in that
| State
" The SPorLsMEN REsToRED.-See Congress.
siona proceedings for beautiful specimen of loco
| foco economy. The House has appointed those
old blood-sqckers, Blair g. Rves printers, and
ont of sheer pity, perhaps for these suffering na-
bobs, voted TO pay them 90 per cent. more than
was paid by the late Wing Congress- This need
leSsly takes something like $4,000 year out of
the treasury, and puts it into Blair & Rives' peck.
cts, for party services. Or, is it gin to them i?
DO you remember how sorcly The loco foco editors
complained when Wing Congress directed
President larrison's salary to be paid to his poor
widow? Mark, now, whether these same presses
complain Of making present Of $4,000 to those
nabubs, blair & Riyes."
Every sentence in the above extract is false. to
our certain knowledge, except the one which says,
"a Wing Congress directed President Hafrsoi's
salary to be pud to has poor widow; :" and from
what we have heard We believe that sentence to
be false in stating Mrs. Harrison TO be Il poor"
widow.
Instead Of the House Of Representatives agree.
ing to pay us "20 per cent. mare than wac paid
hy the late Wing Congress" to Gales g. Seaion il
passed II resolution that I'VE should be psd at The
same rate that was paid Tor The Goth Congress
which Is 10 per cent. LESS Than WIS ever paid to
uly olHCT printer OF IIHttFS 10 congress.
But the House, heretofore, has not soppCd at
reducing the prices When we were printers to it,,
but has reduced the quantity Of printing about one
hnIi, as will be seen by the following statement,
which we lake from tho Blue Book except lor the
last Congress, which furnished by The late
Clerk of the House to Gen. Mckay. at The couI-
mencement of the present session. as the amount
that had then been paid to Gales g. Sea,om for
printing for the last Congress; and they have laid
OH the tables OF tho members OF Congress since
them Two very large documents, making together
at least one thousand pages of one of which
they printed $500 extra copies. so, there is no
telling how much the printing Of The last Congress
will amount TO.
Congress, whom Blair & Rvcs elected paicrs,
the 9Th Congress- inclusive,
9th. To Blair 81 Rives, Sl0G2i8 %
18th. Thos. Allen aud Gales
& Seaton S2lG,403 Is
2Gh BIail s. Rives llIl20 II
9th Gales & Seaton, in part lcG7SS 20
1t will be seen, from The above, that the House
o! Representatives not only gets its printing exc
culed for 10 per cent. less when Blair s. lSivc5
are It's printers but that il gets about one half 10
printing executed than when others priu. for il
thereby saving about 100000 per annum or
100000 per Congress, besides The Is per cent.
And This is not all. so Tar the printers are con.
ccrned. There is, we believe, four times as much
profit on 100000 as there is on Sl0S00O Con-
gress printing. The printing requires the same
quantity OF machinery, aud takes the same MINI
Der Of superintendent, and very near the satne
number OF hands, whether there be much or little
OF 1t done. Aud besides, the hands arc never Idle
wien large quantity o! printing is ordered aud
each hand can be put 10 such work as he can best
do.
Notwithstanding the House has reduced our
pay Is per cent below what il pays 10 Others we
are progressing with The printing as fast us we
would ii we got 10 per cent. more than Others
Our hands have worked until half past ten o.
clock every night, except Saturday nights and
Christmas night. Wepay them 20 per cent more
for working at night Than we do for working The
regular hours by day and they cannot do as
much work by about 20 per cent Ut night as in
the day. The prospect now is, that most OF our
hands, Jail who are working plain work l will
be out of work before the week is out. They
work 10y the week; and if they get out Of work.
the loss will fall OH us. But no mater whether
tie House shall give us much or little work, we
will not lay il OH the tables of The next House, a.
though the work would cost US at least 80 per
CEN. less IL we could take own time TO execute
il in, than il has, since the commencement OF this
session of Congress.
Ii is singular fact, and very well worth notice
now, Us reply 10 the Whg Haichman, that Gales
and Sealon have al This moment 3 per cent more
for executing the printing OF the Senate Than we
GET for executing the. same SORT Of work for the
House. win III. Walchn!an call Gales g. Seatuu
old blood suckers? We think not.
We can but he amused al the great hubbub
winch the brief, off baud article of ours, above
quoted by the Globe, has created in the camp of
the spoismen The Argus pu5shcrs-cog
mcned "old hunkers," by portion of the loco
focos themselves for Iheir grcediness Tor treasury
pap.~as if possessing the hundred eyes Of the fab
ulous monster, who served rs Jealous Juno's
watch og,are FIRST TO spy the port, ntnus paragraph,
aud s'raghway they snap it up aud lay it at the
door OF the Globe. The Globe itself WAKES
wralhy, and gives vent to quite storm OF hard
words which, we venture 10 say, are unbecoming
the dignity that ought to charactrrise The ac-
knowedged organ" of u party aspiring to the u.s.
cendancy in the nation. And the angry G ODE is
guilty Of more than lack of dignity Courtesy
required the Globe 10 send us its answer il il
only for the charitable purpose Of setting us right;
but it was left 10 them this case for US, lucky
subseryiency OF the Patriot to defend lis master,
and in this way TO apprse us that we have been
unconsciously bearing the Globe itself upon our
humble shoulders. We have still another fault TO
find with this big organ it is dishonest if not 10
say guilty of down right lying, in its reply-and
Uo lHC iIub REASON luc we
porIunity OF further discussion Was not offered US
But we have got the attack, or Defence Gil it he
such,) Of The Globe and here is our reply.
We penned our original paragraph from mem.
DRY, surprising that we were doing justice TO the
Wings Of the 9Th Congress, as well as to the loco
fucos of The 2Slh, aud intending TO do nothing but
justice. How far ou memory served us, an inves-
tration of the lucts in the case shows ls and WE
shall fla kly show TO our readers.
AT the 26lh Congress select committee was APP
pointed on the subject of printing, and on The 26.h
of March, ls40 majority (ocoioco) and minority
(whg) reports were made From both Of these
reports it turns out that the public printing down
TO iha, date had been done according TO The rates
established by The resolution Of 1919. The locolo-
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