The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-10-05

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We are reluctant to trouble our readers further about
matters which Individually but feel that
h,v will bear with in view OF the deliberate injustice
,b;eh has been done, and the evidence that we have
,o thus hashy dealt with because Of the which
have thought our duty to pursue with regard to the
.oca questions which have agtated the country. We
M. therefore, offer few comments on the statements
,ooued in production which appears in the Globe Of
Wednesday, purporing to be the Substance Of Mr. Ors
,,marks, delivered on the 25th OF September.
M Orr seemed 10 have felt in the outset the necessity
Il making some apology the House for the he
,.nuated making Of the testimony taken before The
Wentworth committee. BE il remembered that no at.
smut had been made 70 lay the evidence before the
House, although the committee was appointed as long
40 as the month Of April An attempt had been made
ng before the House paper prepared by Mr. Wentworth
which had met the, concurrence, as far as we were
,ble TO learn, OF but three members OF committee Of
being absent The attempt to report, therefore,
xas 4 mere yuse, adopted when the House could not
properly grant for the purpose Of preudicag our posi-
ion when in fact there legal, valid report to be
wessnted Mr. Orr's excuse. therefore, falls to the
mound But we will proceed 10 his statements.
The gentleman from South Carolina. speaking as from
ne ecod-which document was at that time in the pos
ssson Of his ally, Mr.. Marshall OF Kentucky, and had
mayer been submitted the House-stated that the
nc Of Mr. Trenholm and the three contracts OF Mr. Belt
we're taken originally and exclusively for benefit The
record shows no such fact The letter which we adj
dressed TO Mr. Dckins. in March, ls49 before the
cuton Of the contracts commenced, is relied upon TO
prove the gratutous statement OF Mr. Orr. We did
acknowledge in that letter, we have acknowledged
many times since, anu as we acknowledge now,
that we were principally interested in the contracts
and Mr. Orr, by an artful maneuvre, argues as If we
had thereby admitted that were interested as principal
The difference between beng principally interested in
contract with the and being interested
principal is too plain and apparent 10 need comment OF
calculation He that does not il at could not be
made to see it. 5ar
Here we must remark that the contract Of Mr. Tren
holm tour oreman) and the three contracts OF Mr. Bell
are all separate and distinct Mi. Trenholm did, when
invited to reinquish his contract by the Printing Commit
tee agree 10 do If Congress should desire to make
new arrangement bat as Congress delayed any action
on the subject for many MONTHS he Withdrew his consent
to the proposition othe Printing Committee. and notified
/. that he should hold on to his contract These facts
wo ud have appeared the record had not part Of that
record been suppressed; and had they been properly
detood much of the msappehenson OF facts manifested
by Congress would havebeen avoided. We may have
to say this point when come to analyze the
statements OF Mr.. Marshall a
The whole web which the author Of the committee o.
Investigation has attempted 70 draw around us is one o.
himsy sophistry or OF gross misrepresentation W.
have already stated thai the contract not taken fol
The ose Of breaking up the system that no comb
nation formed for that purpose that the declarations
which originally attributed another person wer
authorized to be made BY us; and that in oppo
hon 10 these ALLEGED declarations stands the recorded
feet, that never was 90 much work done in the SAM
dne-never more importunae eagerness to hasten th
work, which never would have been shown, IL Their
h been any plan formed to break mp the contract sys
Il since appears, from the cross-questonng OF thei
witness, that all his original statements have becom
vague and unsatisfactory that instead Of declaration
made, his recoectons turn out 10 be nothing more thar
vague impressions which he had taken up from scrap
Of Conversations OF which, too. were authorizes
BY ourselves II appears, too, that The low terms which
put in were not for the purpose OF breaking up tn
system, but principally 10 give claim TO participation
Of the census which had gone to the printers to Con
uess. sd
The gentleman from South Carolina endeavored to shov
that Congress had not violated the contracts, charges
BY Mr. McClernand Of Illinois, by taking from the publ
printer the printing OF the census returns On that poin
Mr. Orr said
Ta prrtirg Of the rsfpras does not consulate
part Of The wtnaS Of the too hOu'es Of Co-gr" Hfah
AsdsT- The hsad Of department. priHftrg. In iS1 Cor
gre" d1scfd the then crarg Of State 10 contSaet pifh
paies 10 the Irt Coagrsa for the pr~tag Of these rawrn'
a.d 10 conformity ifh that act prafag Q,
seuisd es the prnter 70 Co~gss, a~d rof orpico
Every word Of this is a mistake; and we will prove
not by assertion merely but by reference to the laws
When the first, the second and the third censuses
taken. there was printer to Congress- and we canno
Ind that any provision made print the returns
On the I'D Of March, ni9, Joint resolution was passed
requiring each house to cleo, its printer, and fixing III
compensation for congressional printing
On the i4,h Of March, is2o, the act providing 70
taxing the fourth census approved The last sectio
Of that act provides as follows;
!" Ssc. ~ had bs IL Further snacisd That when IN
Aforesaid meraon shall be com pleed and returned
NE Secretary OF state by the afsnals OF tho States an
Territories. shall direct printers OF Congress to prin
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