The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-01-29

WA, departure from the terms of the contract There
dminuon IN the size OF the page 20 the ehent Oh
seven or eight per cent lie hoped 'ha' Inc 'e'oa'o"
Mr. WESTCOTT said that he believed he had reason
congratulate himself the vote which he gave when
the proposition to have the public printing executed py
contract was first made lie had protested against IL
then and predicted that the very state OF things now pre-
scented would early in the first session OF Nohg'eSs
But he was willing lend his aid TO any udcious ove
ment for separating the public printing from .he pubic
press although opposed the idea OF hou 10
the lowest bidder who would execute 1t N 6ungllng man
ner and DELAY il so etard the pubhc business lie
was perfectly satisfied that they never would have the
public printing properly executed until they had pub,
fishing Office under the eano, ol a ,om ,hs e
OF the paltry huckserng system OF giving
il out by contract He that this system would
incur the objection that would Increase the PATRONAGE
the only mode in which the public printing could be al
once economically and properly executed With regard
to the present contractors, he did not blame them The
documents annexed 10 the Presidents message this
year exceedingly volumnous they were hve times the
size Of those Of former years It was utterly impossible
for the contractors avoid delay in furnishing these
documents. II they had had public printing Office,
they could have had the work done at the end OF
the first week Of the session. But the contractors
could not have furnished it promptly without losing
all their profits, and thirty forty thousand dollars
besides. AS it was, he believed they would lose by
their contract He thought Congress were as much 10
errors of the press had occurred in the documents 6n ne
would appeal to the chairman OF The COMMITTEE on rh'
nghimself practical priner-whether these inre,aeo
tons in the work not attributable to tne cHeuh
stances under which il was executed he da NOT see
any necessity for the resolution The coniacoIs lheiI
selves were much annoyed by the difficulties IN which
they were placed and Congress certainly ought 10 treat
them in spirit of liberally.
Mr.. CAMERON remarke that the senator from AT
kansas had been appointed member oil the Commi'iee
on Printing but had yet attended any OF its meetings
The committee would have been very happy to have had
the opportunity of avang themselves OF his services
The resolution he repeated, could not do any good; the
committee were already acting IN the matter lie though,
was reasonable mat the CONTRACTORS SHOULD e
q lew uays ~ CoHP,e,e ueu aianse - IA d.,
he WORK naa mus lar oegn ,peieony baa ha. ,a
mark ed The Documents were this wear very voumnous
~ II .I.- ID n,;n,r
Inc riesiuen's Ihesodte anu S ~. h;,h.r,o
h'houn'eu W ec'o"tsen nuiu'Su fHe1', ~ pa.;l,,
they had not exceeded eight hundred pages besides,
there appeared to be combination IN the DISTRICT asas'
the contractors everybody connected Win Pn'i't ~.
H. o wy Th ntrctop" Therefore had right TO some
saon,,hv Iii, no was for keeping them 10 their con-
4ar aIhongh he believed the price to be too low Com
non tndnsss reonred that thew should deal literally
Nth he rnnrcn and af lea s rive them the opportu
r;,v NJ snch ARRANGEMENTS as would enable them