The southern press., 1851-04-04

bers. In The passage as given ] say what the
proht would be on the number of copies "re-
qttred for The leg sislation Of Congress" and this
shows that my testimony was then confined to
the regular numbers ordered for that use but
subsequently, in part of nv evidence sup
pressed by the Union, make this clear by say
ing: "The printing Of extra copies is great
source Of profit to the printer, because it brings
into use extra presses, which he is obliged to
purchase and keep manned during the session
for the sole purpose Of printing such copies with
despatch when ordered" And in my testimony
of 1916, in which refer to that Of 1910, ana
make it part of that then given, (malSlng alto
gether thirty seven printed pages,) sum up the
whole thus "Al my testimony may be com
pressed in few words, which will not write.
If the printers to Congress shall be required
and compelled to execute the printing in good
time, and on good paper, then on the necessary
amount of printing he cannot, in my opinion,
make an unreasonable profit, on the prices of
1919, 30 per cent. off. But if Congress shall
order an unusual and unnecessary quantity of
printing, and most oft in extra copies of docu-
ments, and shall permit the printers to take their
own time to do it in, and do it on thin, flimsy,
cotton paper, then the printers will make exor-
bitant profit"
Now if, as the Union intimates, the passage it
quotes makes a case of flat perjury against me,
think the explanation now give would make
the garbng of the Union, in Dogberry's phrase,
a case of Gas flat burglary as was ever commit
ted" What would not n man do who would
garbe the testimony of another to make it ap-
| pear that he had sworn falsely!
The fact is, the prices of 1919, when the docu-
ments are printed as | then said in my testi-
mony they should be, did not afford excessive
profits, including the extra NUMBER of that day,
which then stated was "a great source Of profit
to the printer" because there were comparatively
few extras then ordered. The Patent Office re-
port then made sixty pages, and only one thous-
and extra copies Of it were ordered to be printed
during the Congress in which my testimony was
giyen--the 26th. These, at the full prices of
1919, amount to S87 So The extras on the
Patent Office reports, ordered to be printed by
the last Congress, estimating the one recently
ordered to be printed to make as many pages ms
the one of the previous SESSION. at the prices of
1919, would amount to $323,575 90. 1t takes
a. ,445 reams and $50 sheets of paper to print
them. 1t has been proved, and admitted by Mr.
Ritchie, that the pater on which he prints the
extra numbers, costs him SSl AS a ream less than
that on which he prints the regular numbers, al
though his contract requires him to print the
extra numbers on the same kind of paper that
he prints the regular ones. He thus saves on
the paper of the extra numbers, for this docu-
ment alone $2O,945 10.
The extra number of documents ordered by
the last Congress is near thousand per cent
more than the extra numbers ordered by the
26th Congress, the only one when Blair &
Rives were printers for both Houses,) as will
prove when the extras Of the last Congress shall
have been printed. Ihave prepared tables show
ing all the extra numbers ordered by both
Houses during the 26th Congress, when Blair
q Rives were printers, and all the extra num-
bers ordered during the last Congress, when Mr.
Richie was printer; and these tables show that
the extras which he has printed up to this time,
together with the Patent Office report of the
last session, which is estimated for exceed the
number printed by Blair IL Rives 857t per cent
Those not printed, which are described in the
table below, will, think, swell it to near l,00O
per cent.
The extras already printedby Mr.. Ritchie, in
GLIDING the Patent Office report for the las,
session, which have estimated for, make 1856,
100000 pages, and, being reduced to reams
make 81 ,955 reams, and 100 sheets which, al
81 AS a ream, which Mr. Ritchie saves" by
printing the extras on paper inferior to that men
toned in his contract, amounts to $3l,635 05
The extras ordered ~ the Senate, which have
not yet been printed, (or were not few days
ago, when caused an examination to be made, J
are as follows:
and I'd sessions Of the 2la Congress, aud the speci-
al session, Of documents, the number of pages il,
each Of ohich could not be ascertained, supposed
| 10 be IN process of printing