Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-05-25

the same statement, is likewise erroneous, be. |
cause the form must have been already made |
UNI to print the g. 56 copies. Thus We have |
left onIy three items which can be legitimately |
charged as involving any cost in furnishing |
the proposed additional copies, Viz the paper, |
the press-work, and the folding. These, as
every printer and every pubilsher In the coun'
try knows, are the only appropriate items TO DO
estimated by printer in providing for an in
crease of the number of copies of awork ready
for the press In his second statement Mr..
Rives is utterly wrong in charging the entire
amount of his alleged capital and material
against the proposed additional copies. The
capital and material were already provided
and in use, to enable him to execute existing
contracts.
trust that this explanation will mitigate
the displeasure evinced by Mr.. Rives in conse-
quence of my former omission to review his
calculations. So unpleasant task was not
necessary to enable me to put the Senate's
committee in possession of proper information,
and 1 purposely avoided it. But as my for
bearance has been magnifed into misde-
meanor of such Importance as to be thr1ce emu
merated Gin the first second, and eighth col
| umns) among the grievances set forth in Mr..
Rives's newspaper publication, have reluc-
family performed the duty in regard to which
he accuses me of dereliction.
Before passing from this charge, however,
permit me to invite attention to the fact that
on the last occasion Of its being mentioned by
Mr.. Rives, eighth column,) be seems to think
| my coarse the more inexcusable because my
| - now calculations included the SIP copies
of the Congressional Globe and Appendix
| taken by the House, about ahich there waS
| no dispute" as Mr.. Rives says he " had &C
| knowledged all along that he did rot lose
on them, owing to the House taking SO many
copies" In reply l can only say, that if
there was any improperly in including the
| House copies in my estimates, MIR. Rives is
himself responsible for it. If there was no
dispute about the House, why did he state in
his " correct calculation" (above copied that
his ' office will lose on the tVO Houses this
| Congress, by publishing Their proceedings at
{ 81 so column, SIS, ST. Is, of which the
Senate is chargeable with half?" And upon
this basis, it will be seen, ali his calculations
are made, the Senate in each table being
charged only with one half" Will he now
deign to enlighten the world upon a subject
about which he knows so much, by stating to
what body, or to what person, the other ''half y
might be legitimately charged The inform
| alton might hereafter be Of use to some novice
| in these matters.
But this is not the only instance in which
Mr.. Rives abandons: in his newspaper publ
| cation, what he had asserted in his circular
The circular appears to have been printed for
the purpose Of overthrowing the statement Of
Mr.. Towers, which estimated the profit on the
printing of 1920 additional copies at from
SO, 900 to 1924 900. Mr. Rives in his circula
denies this conclusion, and submits the coun-
ter statements above copied, all of which are
so framed as to show at the footing an appar-
ent loss, instead of a profit, although an ex-
animation will make it evident that in these
very statements he indirectly acknowledges a
profit of nearly $4,000, which is covered uI
in the item reimbursing himself for alleged
loss. All this ingenuity, however, has now
been rendered of no avail, by the newspaper
publication of Mr.. Rives, wherein he fhric,
urges an additional subscription upon the Sc
nate on the ground that it will relieve hin
from loss and allow a small profit. (See frs
and fourth columns.) The additional subscrip.
ton thus solicited is for 1920 copies and in
his circular Mr.. Riyes estimates his loss al
$2SS ST.. Now, in the newspaper publication
prepared but little more than month subse
quenuy to the circular, he afirms that he ha
no claim upon the House for any part of thi
loss, and says, in the fourth column, that b,
asks "only that the Senate shall take such al
additional number Of copies as will enabl,
his machinery to make up to him what b,
'loses on manual labor, and leave him a small
profit and then again, a little lower down il
the same column, he repeats that he ask
"only that the Senate, and the Senate only
shall take a sufficient number Of copies !
! save him from the rnineus loss he suffers b.
publishing its proceedings" In view of thes
: clear admissions that the gain on the propose
additional subscription will cover his loss an
leave small profit, l respectfully sugges
greatly overrated his loss, or that the estimat
of profit on lie additional copies made by Nh
Towers was rather under than above the marx
! and Mr.. Rlves may take either horn of thi
dilemma. 1t Is certain that he thus inadyer
tently confesses the correctness of estimate
which he undertook to refute
So much fer Mir. Rives's first complain
be quite formidable. 1t is, that had est
mated the cost of publishing column Of de
bate In the National Intelligencer at $7.5
whilst In my late letter thereto appended)
| state that it will cost only So 40 in the Globe
This circumstance is paraded to my prejudice
and commented upon as evidence of my un
fairness The seeming Inconsistency is YER
easily explained. 1t is, simply, the result @
another oversight of Mr.. Rives himself VIII
probably forgot that page Of the Intelligen
Ger, although rather larger than a page Q
the Globe, contains only sic columns Will
the Globe contains seue2 columns. The fou
: pages OF the Intelligenoer contain but tuentv
Jour columns, while the four pages of the GIob
contain twenty eight columns; and the page
, OF the Globe are about three ems narrowe
than the Intelligencer. Congress pays for it:
debates, not by the page, but by the column
Now, if Mr.. Rives will multiply 81 so by a
he will find the product to be $50: and if b
, Will, In the same manner, multiply Sc. 40 b.
rs, he will obtain product of $179 20-show
ing a difference of eighty cents in four pages
which Is trife less than three cents pe
colHnan; and then il he will allow for tn
additional Width of the pages of the InteIli
gencer, he will find that the two calculation
do not vary half cent per column, which
as near as estimates Of this kind can we'll an
proximate. The fact that the results tim
correspond in calculations made from differen
sheets at different times the one without refer
ence to the other, is conclusive proof of tn
correctness of both. If Mr.. Rives will exam
Inc this matter, he will be surprised at tn
simplicity of his own blunder if not at hi
lndIscretlon in exposing it.
"A word or two more will not BIZ hero ont q
place, in connexion with the preceding com
putation OF the dimensions of the Intelligence
and Globe. 1t shows that whilst the nasrs o
.ue Intelligencer are little the largest. th
Globe receives from Congress Thrift dollar
more, per paper, for publishing the debates
than the Intelligencer did, for the three SEES
sions when its editors published them for tn
Senate. This fact seems also to have beer
overlooked by Mr.. Rives in all his statement
and arguments, as we'll as the yet more inter
estlng tact, SO far as compensation is concerned
that the 1ntelligencer was paid nothing IA
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