The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-12-14

We have added in brackets for 600 pages to make
the prices correspond with the rates which Mr. Halliday
was attempting 10 calculate According 70 his manner Of
stating those prices the committed by him in that
single item ia Just $l2 ,205 S54.
Again he says, lpage a:)r aqs as ! +at s.l# +. MI
The established price for folding in mis- city three
LIST session ofthe & Congress sax
d three cents, : sol Is, cost Of folding"
Now. il we know anything OF arithmetic. 1885
sheets, at three cents hundred would amount just
Val q and not to $4e 20 as Mr Haday's arithmetic
Such are the calculations Of Mr. Rivess foreman, re.
vsed perhaps BY that celebrated arhmetcan who, he
calls figure at anything, thinks himself very great in
figures And now beg leave to call the public atten
ton to this new illustration OF the gross injustice which
has been done 70 us by the Hon. John Wentwohs COM
miftee oil investigations We can scarcely lay the sins OF
omission commission either, TO the doors OF s mem
bers Mr. w. moved the resolution Of inquiry, aimed me-
h IVA had
House, the chairman OF the committee The first resou-
Sa forbid amy person pe Sess q
their proceedings, except The witness who under
animation. This resolution, Of course cut us off
EsEs q 5eueps T. sssngs
ing what they had done We appeared, along with Mr.
Burke. who had offered to act counsel to
the rule and politely asked 10 withdraw. after giving Us
the right TO put in our claim in writing We preferred
our claim to be present at their meetings, and
rejected We were further informed that when our inter-
ests personally involved and they had done with the
evidence. why, we might then be permitted to be heard
Weeks and months passed over in this secret inqus
honour affairs constantly brought up by the witnesses
whom the chairman had summoned to testfy-untiI we
informed bytwo honorable and indignant members OF
Congress that they had been summoned before the com
mee and. in manner which dare not designate by
its proper name questions had been put to them, whether
they had been invited TO house whether they had
participated OF hospitality and whether they had ever
been applied to by US in relation TO the public printing
The questions were not very respecuto the witnesses
wards ourselves, as well as untrue and unjust. Upon
hearing OF this nquisitora proceeding repeated
demand 70 appeal BY ourselves Or BY attorney before the
COMMITTEES. The privilege was still withheld from
u.s. until. having exhausted all his stock Of evidence
and but very few days OF the session remaining,
we were literally notified in writing by the honora.
BILE John Wentworth that we might see the evidence
which had been taken-eydence recorded in the most
exceptionabe form--but we were limited to very few
We had lime % The cacuiaons ana Statements
which were shown to Had we been permitted 10 ap-
pear from the commencement of the investigation, we
produced and blow its errors high at the time they
were presented We should also have stopped many OF
those gross Misrepresentation which took wing from the
room, to be sent forth among the gossip Of
Washington, and 10 buzz in the congenial columns Of
the New York Evening Post. But than all this is
this parade Of figures In the dppendir which
be printed for the use OF the House We leave it to the
liberal members OF Mr.. Wentworth's committee, 10 Con-
gress, TO the country seiwho may be pleased 10 take
some little interest in desiny-io decide upon the
manner which have been treated in affair touch
ing character, struggling fortunes, and the
ess Of numerous family But let return from this
DEPRESSION to the argument in hand. ~ IS .tis.
We have already said enough to prove that we lose
money the documents OF which the largest quantity OF
extra numbers is ordered As 10 the regular numbers
have Mr. Rives's evidence that losses must have
been greater on them e t tss. fsa ftsatsE
When the last session adjourned. without taking any &C
ton with regard 10 the printing, left with large
amount of work hand. When the generoussfriend
whom we have already mentioned offered US the means
OF conin ung with the contracts despatched speca
agent "a first rate practical printsr to the North TO
tract Tor the execution OF such work could not
have executed in Washngton, We have before us some
OF the bills which were rendered for the regular mum
bers Those bills are for composition and ptess.work
we omit freight and calage The paper was all Of the
best quality, and was furnished by u.s. Estimating nine
ures 10 the rea, each ream costing 81 75being IS
cents quirehe following figures will show the losses
sustained We were charged 40 cents token for press
work, which is the standard price in all the northern
cities, where labor is lower than in Washington;