The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-06-07


made until some principle established, which shall have
general application TO the printing 81 documents and
shall therefore, resist al attempts 10 pnns !epo Of any
fixed law applying 10 the subject. concur entirely
with the honorable senator from Missouri IN the
ladon which he has offered think that will regulate
the whole matter AS the is now and with view
dispose Of the subject for the time being move to lay
Mr. BoRLAND. Will the honorable senator with
draw his motion for moment
Mr. BRIGHT. Certainly
Mr.. BENTON (Mr. BoRLAsD yielding for the pur-
Pose) SAID, want to say word understand that Mr.
Jones finding that he could not wait for the action oil the
government and the government printer which might
qure two years. and having idea of trusting his report
70 the hands q The public printers without being present
oil The work printed at his own expense. Tomorrow
morning shall be able to have with copy Of this
work. and will the style 10 which il done and
il we can ascertain the price at which it was DONE we
shall have abasls upon which to judge oil the approp
ate cost OF the work
Mr.. HAMLlN Mr. President wish to say a single
word. Senators are under great misapprehenson IN
regard to printing these documents They commu-
nicated TO us from the Department. and ordered to be
printed under the ordinary law regulating the price OF
printing, and the style ii which work shall be done
There is doubt about IL The suggestions offered by
the honorable senator from Indiana Mr. BRIcHrl are,
We know precisely what it will cost and precisely
what style II will have to be done I'm. II is like all
other documents interpose no objection to any dispo
son that may be made Of the subjects but do intepose
serious objection against these charges made broad
~ and % entirely without any sufficient ground
MIR. BRIGHT. II the senator will allow me, am
not mistaken IN what say, II the senator from New
Hampshire [ME HALs] right in his declaration, that
the printing OF this document does not within any
q s thai Ss, the s s
cost something more than $3 per volume, when, in
fact, il should have cost less than III,
The senator from New Hampshire is mistaken This is
the very point These papers communicated to by
the department. and BY us ordered to be printed They
come, then, within the terms OF the law, and the terms Of
| MIR. B0RLAND. One remark There is a mistake
here, which avery few words will put right Ths is not
Hampshire, at all This is case in which documents
communicated from the executive departments ordered
to be printed in the usual way and under the ordinary
contrah The alluded to by the honorable senator
from New Hampshire MIR. HALE1 totally differ
emit The document to which he refers is pamphlet
containing certain decisions Of the Supreme Court Of the
United States-a document not contemplated BY the
tract OF all at the time il made provided for by
It's terms and in consequences Of the peculiar reading OF
the resolution which ordered the printing of that doc-
men The public printers supposed that according to the
terms Of that resolution, taken in connection with the
terms Of the contract they had right TO make different
from the Secretary OF the INTERIOR and proposed
De printed comes regularly within the terms of the
tract Ct and nd. is 2 2 different case al,oge,her
that that was OF those unprovided for in that
clause said that became to know if it not
The chairman OF the Committee on Printing tells that
the printing Is provided for in OF the ve classes.
That certainly rue and under the classification Of the
fifth class. charge Of $ss made for the pamphlet
which hold il my hand.
Mr.. HALE. Some says no. I say it is So IN
der the 5h class Of printing to be found the slst
page OF the pamphlet communicated by the Secre-
tay OF the Senate, you find statement OF various kinds
OF printing to be done Then this general clause,
under which provided that any matter not enumera
presswork, etc, not herein specified, 100 copies at 81
per page" Now, the construction was given that !,
meant ~ page for all the hundred copies, giving,
contend, ustexacy one hundred times what the contract
meant am asked if they established that rule for
themselves They did establish that rule and charged
$ssoco. One Of the individuals interested in this mat
ter addressed letter to the Secretary and Clekhe
counting officers by the MISUNDERSTANDING to receive so
large an amount and consentng 10 receive only $2 500
gesied the question whether il did moi come under that
class My impression is that the fair price Of this
Nj 60fE DC os mol rise Tor the purpose Of proong
ing this debate Something will have to be done upon
the subject OF printing generally, for the stated
is not suitable one We have other matters Of more
table. - ''''s "''' = ~ "'' ''''''' :" A'
The question being taken upon the motion to lay the
report OF the Committee Printing on the table, was
agreed to-
OF MEETING
Mr.. BADGER Iis very obvious think, to every men,
Der OF the Senate that the business OF the Senate requires
that we should meet at earlier hour in the morning
than IL o'clock We have now arrived at that period OF
the session when il is the usage OF the Senate
earlier hour That usage is forced upon US by the con-
dtion OF the public business WISH therefore, to SUBJ
init the following order;
Ordered, That from and amer this day the daily hoar of
meeting oil tho Senate shall until otherwise ordered be ii
O'clock a. m.
MIR. CLAY rise, SIR 10 ask that this order be con-
sldered, and passed now by general consent.
Objection being made, the order lies over.
DEBATES OF THE CALIFORNIA CONVENTION.
MIR. WALKER. wish TO offer a resolution with re.
gard TO the business OF the Senate On the 18th OF April
last a resolution adopted by the Senate directing
the Secretary OF the Senate purchase 1000 copies OF
the debates in the California convention with propiso
providing that the same be furnished rate not ex-
ceedng the price which they furnished to subscr
bers and other individuals" There no subscribers
and the publishers say they have sold copies OF the
work There is, therefore, nothing to guide the Secretary
~ his purchase OF this work. The publishers have fixed
me price Of the book at 81 per copy. The Committee
ContingentExpenses have been consulted; and though
believe know the opinion of the members Of the com
mitiee to be- that the price Of the book is extravagany
nigh. have letter from Mr.. Browne, the author.
which concludes in this way
have only to say, in conclusion, that whatever the
may be- and whatever loss might be myself shall fix
my terms, and shall not under any depart
from them.
As amember OF the committee believe the other
members OF the committee concur with mel believe il
is most exorbtan pnce, and that the Senate will not
be justified in paying $4,000 for that number OF copies
With this view, offer the following resolution:
Roiped That the resolution Of the Senate adopted the
18th day OF April last authorizing the purchase from John
Ross Browne of thousand copies OF The the
California convention be and the IL hereby