The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-03-17

SEMI WEEkL sahsefbss win sao sneosed WEEKLY
subscribers with go eaciosd, win be enued eopy
edition they furnish subsc,ILsrs for, svafs.
amendment after the word provided" be stricken out
and that inserted that send 10 the table
"Tha, contracts for material: and printing q said copies
msn) Who shah execute bonds with approved security for
the performance vi the work.
MI. DAWSON Ihave merely word Or two TO say,
SIR want to show that there Is no necessity according
to law for the passage OF any resolution at all upon this
subject II will be ecolected BY many OF US that there
was an unfortunate extra session in the year lS4l Upon
passed he Congress- ii III he United States q ii that bill
they required that this compendium should be printed
for the Congress that should act upon the ratio Of repre-
law passed to have copies Of the compendium
printed but the final law not passed until Septem
@ ns
the time prescribed BY law yet The printing OF 10000
copies was ordered in May 1889 but the
the law passed by Congress directing the Secretary
Of State TO the Of s40 to be condensed into
and sn ordering gAs copies 0 A4.
ing statistics be taken required before, and the
aggregate will be greater than ever has been-fve
times greater, should think than il has been hereto
FORE The cannot be taken and completed, and
returned to Congress- for the next eighteen months and
why should we now before we know the extent 81 tte
compendium undertake to declare how many copies OF
that compendium shall be printed, and who shall pc the
printer The precedent Of September is4i. may be
III
might pass the bill At this time Il we would wish 10
avoid this thing upon which is not necessary for
MI BENTON. The effect Of the motion which was
made by the senator from Arkansas Mr. BoRLANDl to
give this printing 10 relation to the census to the public
printer, the public printers, whichever II may be-
think that is the effect Of the motion have had my at
enton for time past directed to this business OF
public printing from the amenabe fact that now
far advanced in the session without having got those doc
umens which we expected to receive early. vi the
presidential documents copy was laid upon my table,
and thinking should ,h get supply s0Gn gave i
and not supplied yet have seen the public print
ing 80 far behndhand as il is now; and my attention
the public that should be delayed in this
ner And in consequence OF that feeling, when report
was made some days ago Tor the printing q ne compla,
States moved 70 lay tnpon the table, unl we should
consider what should be done with III for had no idea
when he cannot do what he now has on hand; and, ia
thinking il over turned 10 the old act OF 1919 II my
memory was right give my recollection from that
Ine--it contained provision by which each house,
although they were to have public printer retained IN
their own hands control the OF their work
for itself would direct their Secretary or Clerk to have
il done at the expense OF the printer he could not get
done upon the terms Turn to the old statute. nd
find there that my recollection OF il was correct This
is what was executed in the act OF 1919: gsa
.And in any inconvenient delay should be aay
lime experienced BY either House N me devernK Of is
M 70 s%Poy 10y snosG nss % s sssSus . any az poson
in the q such pnnte for executing such york
above what herein allowed 10 the printer guilty such
negligence and delay.
The public convenience the overruling considera-
ton in 1912 To do work. and to do i in time was
the object o. that law understand that the act OF 1919
has been repealed would now S ask the ss1a,G. 1s
while ago. any gentleman who is familiar with that
subject whether the new printing Jaw contains clause
gentleman answer mel Will the chairman OF the com
mitiee answer the question .
It does, though have not examined the subject 80
Mr. BORLAND. viii refer the senator from Mis-
sour Mr. BENroNl to the joint resolution directing the
npe Congress- passed il August g. Is4s in which be viii
nd in the second section OF that resolution, that some
discretion is given to the Committee Printing on the
subject Of the execution OF the contracts It's proper
thai should say, If the senator will indulge this
point that the committee have had the subject under con-
sideraon at several meetings and were M considering
ed out, that the delay has occurred We have looked
into the Of that delay with view OF remedyng i
well understand. that cannot be rsmedied in moment
He will understand another cause OF delay was that long
period was CONSUMED in organizing the other House II
has been ordered bat leaves only the third month";
when, under the peculiar disadvantages OF the public
10 do, al very heavy cost to themselves with no work
on hand and when all at once the work OF the session
commences, and an immense amount OF work is thrown
sion, than they had right TO expect-they could
not expect to 20 on with as little confusion and delay as
under ordinary circumstances.
Then, sir II Is but Justice 10 them 10 say that there
another cause of delay-tha which pointed out the
other day-hat the largest and of the most important
documents which has before very considerably
delayed by corrections made in il alter 1t was printed
Important statistical tables and columns OF figures were
charged and, in fact, the alteration 20 great that
when il printed not the report OF the depart
made here; twas not the report which was sent
to the Senate The printer could not avoid that When
struck of the proofs and sent them 10 the department.
what dones II was not mere correction OF proof,
but almost entire and in instances might be con
sidered RADICAL change in the whole affair. ! mention
these for delay. And in reatoQ 70 the
particular document referred 70 BY the senatohe Pres
this that printed good time But the two houses OF
Congress adopted Joint resolution directing that all the
public documents should be bound. The contract for
doing that imposed upon the Committee on Printing
II was some days before they could find out the proper
manner il was days before they could lind the
proper persons do IT, Then II was given to those who
are now the public printers Let il be given 10 whom
might, they could do the work Immediately, because
extensive preparation had to be made for this large
amount OF work, which no one knew they would nave.
The delay in binding has been 10 consequence o. tnis
preparation not made until this contract was
given out Now, 1 understand the document is IN the
binders hands, and will be delivered next week at the
rate OF two thousand per day ID
Mr. BENTON resumed The object which had in
view in proving TO the Senate the difference between the
act OF isie and the laws under which the Senate s
acting is to show that By the present law, we have lost
the control OF printing and are in the hands OF
the printer And let the cause Of the delay Be what