The daily union., 1852-09-08
CONGRESSIONAL.
DEFERRED DE ATE.
FRIDAY. AUGUST 81. 1882.
[Is cosTisUArIoS.l
SENATE.

Mf PEAKIE. aware tdt pIOpOSiHoH
was peadng alter The vote upon the appeal from the de-
cision OF The Chair until heard it real second time
had supposed that when the question whether the
decision OF the Chair should stand the judgment OF
The Senate The affirmative could scarcely be maintained
BY lie vote. II had heard the announcement OF the
Chair, should have taken an appeal from that was
And now, cir. what is the proposition before us
Three years ago Mr. Richie contacted TO do the public
printing al certain specified prices, and upon certain spe
cited terms. tie TO furnish paper OF a particular
The printing WAS 10 be OF certain quality &c
For all that he receive the prices for which he had
offered do the work believe is not commended that
he ever refused the prices for which be contracted
10 do H. take il that every dollar due him under the
contract has been paid ready 10 be PAID 70 MN
whenever he chooses demand IL But after he has
entered that coniractaer the period Tor the execu,
ton of il has elapsed he comes before Congress aud
asks--what That Congress will give h'm graluily
over and above that for which he had contracted 10 De
come the printer Of the proceedings OF Congress de
asks gratuiiy from The treasury OF The United Stales
He asks yon do that which never was done before
lie asks that which you have positively refused to DO IN
the case o the for the public printing who
preceded him Wendell & Van Ben,huysen were con-
tractors for Congress before Mr. Richie took The con-
tract After they had completed their work they came
before Congress- made exhibit, and, so lar as know
fair and honest exhibit, of their receipts and expend
,ues, showing loss OF $4,000, and asked Congress
not TO make them large gratuily, but 10 indemnify
them from loss. That, to be sure would have been
graluy but not such one as is asked Tor now.
They asked indemnity for losses and appealed not io
the Justice Of Congress, but TO their liberaity and
what was the answer We turned a deaf ear 10 their
request believe that not single member OF The
Senate favored their petition. Why is it that we thus
make fish of one and flesh of another-that refuse
TO do equity it is called to one party, and shower il
down in superabundan liherality upon another' Why
that who pay tor contract Tor cannon,
powder, or provisions, anything else, than we
s,ipulae for desire to pay to this printer enormous
gratuity What particular merits had he Did he per-
form his contract exceedingly well as TO give him
particular claim upon the beraity of Congress- Recol
lect what said in report made by the special
mtee in the other House upon this subject II may be
asts< thac ha.xl
TO ask the attention OF the Senate TO the facts which
propose to state. part OF Mr Rtches contract was to
furnish paper Of given quality and certain weight per
The testimony OF person employed IN his office
that be did furnish paper OF that quality and weight
for the numbers OF the documents which laid upon
the desks OF the members; but that for The long
bers-ar exceeding in amount those laid upon tables
sometimes hundred old-he furnished inferior paper
costing several dollars less This systematic bus
ness For the number placed upon tables certain
kind OF ink. called {" book INK used which, |
think, forty cents pound but for the long
bers which to be sent TO our constituents through
the country without our inspection for whom any
thing was good enough, twenty nve-cent ink used
Thai tie testimony, and that The sort OF performance
of his con,ract,he eId and farthf performance OF the
contract. ior which he demands this grauity!
The senator from Illinois has asked, how
demn this, who, when some Eine ten years ago,
had majority OF Congress, gave to the printers OF that
Congress a larger amount OF compensation than they
were entitled to will tell you how. The printers in
is4i elected under the joint resolution OF 1919,
which was in every essential the law OF the land
Thus law fixed the at which the printer Congress
should be paid II was alleged, when the resolution 10
which the senator has referred made that the joint
resolution being law, could not be repealed dnn
ished ia force sIeeps iaw had been repealed
by law II is that at the commencement OF the
sion OF s4l had elected printers TO the two houses OF
Congress, and that stipulated that the rates OF con-
pensaton should be twenty per cent. under the prices
OF 1919 That was the stipulation made by the Senate
for itself, and by the House OF Representatives for IL
self But this agreement not in conformity with law
The law oi 1919 still outstanding. | do not deny
that think according the spirit OF fairness and the
ranxement under which The printers were elected, they
ought not have received the twenty cent They had
legal technical claim 10 ii bat also think in fairness,
should have been considered waived, because they
had made special contract for dong the work do not
complain that the senator condemns that transaction;
but what lustg alton does that which pronounced
outrage years ago offer TO what is pronounced 10
be, and is, much greater outrage now Shall set
of one piece OF G4lphnlsn with sno,heri It is common
nova days to talk about GaIphnism, and shall talk
OF il if this resolution passes, with mach more propriey
and force than those who denounce the TRANSACTION
which originated the In that a Of money
paid out OF the treasury IN pursuance OF a law
passed BY Congress- and upon the decision OF the Atior
ney General. large amount OF interest paid (;
and is to be observed in that II OF the par
ties had been individual instead OF the government,
a OF chancery would have enforced the paymen,
OF the in crest. Nay more they would have enforced
compound interest," because there trustee, who held
the fund. who had mlsapplied the fund-wbo bad re-
ceyed The profits Of the fund, and, in all ssch cases,
court OF chancsry holding the party liable would have
made him pay compound interest That is declared 10 be
a monsrous outrage; and Galphinism Is now a cant
word among party men. but ask Whdt Is mere IN
GaIphnism halt Outrageous this proposition. which
is 10 take from the treasury large amount OF money
we know not how much-opon no preience of law,
but in the teeth of contract not mertoriousy per-
formedi The senator from Maine estimates the amount
OF gra,uiy which Mr. Rlche will receive under this
nmandment at S2o0.ooo. do not know whether that ls
too large; bat whether il is so not-wheber the
amount is only hall that sum, If take $50 900 out
OF the ueasuy-nay, il we take anything TO give
contractor who s not entitled 10 II according to the slip
uation of hls conlractno entitled 10 IL because OF any
merlorous performance OF his contraclwe will do that
which is quite serious wrong anything which is
implied in the term Galphnism' II il had been CON.
mon for Congress to make gratuesif il had been
mon for Congress relieve from hard contracts those
who had entered into them unad dvisedy and that cannot
be said in this casetbere would be some sort o justin
cation for this there would be the justification oil preee
dent and usage bu, there such precedent certainly
in the case oil public printers in the case have men.
iioned-hat OF Wendell & Van Bcnthuysen-you refused
the application az had been irflng impertnence
and not a serisus appeal to your liberaity
The honorable senator from Alabama says, where IS
the proof thai this large OF money will be given TO
Mr Rtchie II TINS amendment passes Sir, we can bu
reason IRON what know. Is II reasonable 10 th NIX
less he gel something which he not ept led
!ie dots not pretend that there il any money due bim
which TIE government will not pay. He asks Tor that to
Wnen ne s not entitled and as TO The amount OF H. we
mus ger " IRON competent TO inform Us, u had
expected his debate TO up tonight, should have
psen prepared TO show something about II but have IN
my hand paptr, the " Daily Globe" OF the 26th Of
hugns, from which will read From The. editorial !
read the following:
I'd VIII undertake. establish before any peteni
mp."sl ,nst me heavy caln scarcely less than 500,