The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-01

Gratis of the House, and among them ore from
a Northern State, who determined on Monday
last that, being resolution day, to offer reso-
luton of enquiry on the subject. He gave
notice previously to the Speaker--but although
the member attempted, throughout the day, to
catch his eye aud ear by rising repeatedly, and
beginning " Mr.. Speaker Speaker never
saw or heard him.
Now, we have no personal prejudice whatever
against Mr.. Speaker BOYD. But he must excuse
US if we explain all the phenomena attending
this printing business. We consider that we
have been personally and politically proscribed'
that the law has been violated, and the public
intert st sacrificed And we confess we feel
more keenly this personal prescription than that
of anybody else, or few or many. We insisted
this printing should be given to the several
offices in town, at fair prices. This was mega.
lived We then insisted, if it was given to
Democrats, we had right to share For we
have done more in securing the success of the
principles now recognized as the creed of the
Democracy, than the Union, and all the Demo
cratic candidates for the Presidency who invited
him to his post, put together-and that is no
great boast. And we determined to make the
question, whether Democrat was to be pro-
scribed for asserting those rights of the South
which it had always before been the duty and
glory of Democracy to assert. Hence, neither
tho paonliar cnursa nf Mr Spaakar RouT, NOR
of the forty who voted against all inquiry into
this matter, shall escape due notice. particularly
as that forty includes a particular portion of
the party making high claims to economy and
to party fealty, are yet ready, as we see, to
surrender hundred thousand dollars to support
Wing as well as Democratic organ, and
to enable both to get up campaign papers.
We see, already, the fruits of this coalition.
The Union of yesterday even displays the
cIoven foot. 1t comes out and throws off the
thin disguise it has hitherto worn, by inserting
and putting an article from the Mobile Adler
User, caving in for General CAss. And it makes
distinct overtures to the Wings who seeded
from the caucus few days ago to join the
Democratic party, promising an endorsement
Of the Compromise at Baltimore as an induce
ment--although that would exclude majority
Of the Democrats from some five or six South
ern States
Our readers may have been somewhat sur
prised and latiguei at the space we have de.
voted to the printing question. But we have
believed from the beginning OF the session that
il was the trueindex Of the course of certain
portion of the Democratic party. Professions
are cheap-bnt actions are not quite so conven-
lent And where party bestows its patronage,
there its affections cluster, and there its real
principles will be disclosed
PROPOSALS OF JOHN T. TOWERS,
FOR SUPPLYING THE PRINTING OF THE SENATE
AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, FOR THE
THIRTY SECOND coEGEEss.
10 The Secretary Of The Senate and Clerk Of he
House Of Representatives of The United States.
The undersigned proposes to supply the Sen.
ate and House of Representatives, respectively.
with the necessary printing for each for the
next ensuing Congress, being the thirty. second
Congress, in conformity with the "joint reso-
luton directing the manner Of procuring the
printing for the two houses Of Congress-" ap
proved the Sd August, 1876, and the advertise
ment Of the Secretary Of the Senate and Clerk
Of the House of Representatives, both of which
are hereunto annexed and made part Of these
proposals, and at the following prices; that is
to say:
FOR THE FIRST CLASS,
Consisting Of bills and joint resolutions of both
Houses: Commit
Towers tees
offer prices
For composition per page so 20 so 80
For the press-work, paper, folding, and stitch.
ing per page
For $50 copies 564 75l
and at the same rate for any greater number not
exceeding ! 900 copies.
FOR THE SECOND CLASS,
Committing Of reports Of eommittees Of both