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which such establishment, should rent for taking into
consideration waste and OF materials, would be
$1,000 per annum These are his words, REPORT No
29s. pages as and a7) ts
would $4,000 build furnish
sssrSa sas q he asass y suppose ~
5000 year would rent such ss.sl.hmen!
place " psoa over il 10 Keen The
materials nom being unnecessarily injured destroyed =
In the face OF this sta tement. Mr. Rves now comes
forth. and, for the purpose Of gratifying his unnatural
malice, brings forward estimates which make no allow
for rent, waste. and tear in order 10 oiure
who is about to retire private life after having de-
voted nearly hall century TO the vindication OF the
principles Of that party which has rewarded Mr. Riyes
with mun6cent hand for services he never rendered
But thsis not all. The estimate which The sditor az
the Union published Of the cost of the Congy
Globe and Appendir for the first session OF the last
Congress-an estimate which we have shown to
be very much higher than that made by Mr.. Riyes
Tor the Patent Once repon-Mr Rives asserted was
not high enough by one-half. Does this conduct
look like candor or like fair dealing or like COM
mon honesty To enable the public to answer these
questions, we will apply the rules OF calcula
ton by which Mr. Rves attempts to estimate the cost of
the Patent Office report to the copies of the
Globe and Appsndir, which Mr. Rives furnished 10 the
first session Of the last Congress We take The particu
lars from Mr.. Rives's statement contained in the
Daily Globe OF December 81, 1850. AT the bottom Of
the seventh column OF the third page these words may
be found by the curious:
The Congressional Globe and Appendix
s p ass %upsd X S make
ss Der Of p.ss divided y S ssss These, divided BY
page Of the Congressional Globe and AppendiI con-
tans oes3 BREWER ems. and the Congress page contains
2s7o BREWER follows therefore, that Mr. Rivess
gressional pages, fraction less than 81 rs page for
the Congressional Globe and appendix He puts
IS cents when estimating the presswork done
at the Union Office and he allows 10 per cent on the
cost Of paper to all other expenses Now, we have
all the items necessary for purpose which u.s. TO give
Mr.. Rives dose OF his own medicine
Composition, 1896 pages, at 81 rs $6,sls 90
Paper, {, S37 reams, at x3 80 1862 10
Presswork, Z, s37 reams, al 25 cents TOO rs
Add 10 per cent on paper for contingencies 936 81
Total ae- 5000 Sl7s25 So
This is the cost according the principles which Mr.
Rives wishes 10 apply 10 congressional printing. of
$500 copies of the Congressional Globe and 5s2 OF the
Appendir which the House OF Representatives had sub
scrbed for at SO copy-makng in the aggregate Just
S33.552. On the cath day of July, $780, Congress had
aot agreed to give Mr. Rives any gratuy for reporting
and he uhe said Rives) that day score that he pas
losing at the rate Of S16o day a, his establishment
Let us see:
Cost of Congressional Globe and Appeadir
furnished The House, according 10 MIR.
Rivess recent estimate sI7s25 90
Price charged Congress 1882 90
Difference w Si5,726 A
This was the difference between the cost OF printing
and the price paid for itleavng nearly SIT 900 profit
But then, the cost OF reporting TO out OF that
but Mr. Rives has than admitted that the
600 paid him by the first session of the last Congress
made him whole on that score. II that sum made him
whole. and paid him what he ''ea, drank. and wore
out" 1--WE use his expression) leave the public
10 Judge how he to absolute and direct per
jury when he swoe, secret before his friend John
Weniworths committee, that he losing $3.50 day,
when he had reserved fund, according his show
ing, of si5,72o a.
Let US now temize little. Thus
li.lsi copies Congressional Globe and Ap-
pendir, al 80 a copy 500 $50 90
Reporting 1901 %
$50 1913 IS
Cost TO Nh Rives, "a above Sl7,S25 So
Reporting 2,53a columns, at - 10
column l0,3s9 40
2s.2la 90
Net profit s24,33s 29
Such is the ne, profit which Mr.. Rives-according to
the cost he endeavo to ax in the face Of former oahs
m congressional printing--reazed on The copies OF
the Congressional Globe and Appendir furnished the
House OF Representatives. Besides that, he received
about 81 600 for copies OF the works furnished the
Senate for which he had to pay nothing but for paper
presswork. and ink. .-E
Yet be ii remembered that his soms John c. Rtcu
s,rors on hs 2t day Of July, before John Wsnfrorhs
eonrniie. thai he losing al The rate Of si6o day
Our own se-respect will not permit us to designate
properly Mr. Rives's conduct There are many things
in his long career OF IMMUNITY which we have passed
over II would take volumes TO expose fully his twist
ings and iurnings and unravel the complex web OF
his interruptions cunning. We think we have done
enough, however, although we have something yet 10
reserve We are fond OF field sports bu, we cannot
rive all our time TO the chase We have this time been
chasing cunning marauder, whose course and whose
fate we cannot better describe than by using the graphic
words Of somerville;
&c See . he stuils along,
seet at he shepAerSs cost and plump WITH meah
purIon,d SO thrive wicked here below.