Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-01-24

For printing index private claims $500. 1879 40
For printing for Coast Survey. ......... 1921 80
1885,, so4 80
During the last session of Congress Senator
Johnston, chairman of the Senate Committee
on Printing, made the following statement
eve are paying for the public printing OF this
Congress 81, 100000 For the Departments, SO
far their printing has been done under the law,
the cost has been 100000 All the public print
ing which has yet been subjected to the general
printing law has cost $4,000, 000."
From these statements the reader can readily
estimate the cost of the public printing
The paper and printing for the Executive
departments is set down at $146,5oO For the
year 1854 it cost $22,355 SO, as shown by
official documents, and was not then, as now,
under the control Of the Superintendent of
Public Printing. This item of public expen-
diture, like many others has increased seven
fold under the supervision of A. j. Seaman
Superintendent of Public Printing.
Again, according to a statement published
by the Union, December 10, 1856, Messrs
o.a~~ q, f's'-t-- -eu1ived during the year 1856,
$l80,770 90 from the government for the
/" Register of Debates and /" Annals of Con
gress." All the above items of expenditure are
independent of the government advertising,
which species Of government patronage has
been bestowed upon the Intelligencer, Union,
and Star, of this city, and upon the admins
tratlon presses generally throughout the
country. We have the list of the newspapers,
and shall at an early day publish some portions
oft, by way of exhibiting new method of es-
timating the intensity of the love of some Of
the papers for the administration. Those who
have brawled the lowdest have, Of course, been
most literally fed, while the small fry. to
whom have been cast only the crumbs, which
others refused, have whined most piteously
over the precious morsel, and crayenly beg for
more
The whole amount of money expended du-
ring thepast year for advertising was S246.-
200 10, ofwhich $40, 7s9 "a was paid to the In
teIligencer, $21, 61O 30 was paid to the Star.
and $2l 500 60 was paid to the Union. These
amounts are independent of the amount paid
each for advertising proposals for naval sup
plies, proposals for live oak, proposals for sup
plies to docks and yards, proposals for naval
clothing and small stores, which amounted in
the aggregate Ia. $780, "a, Of which amount
we suppose that each of these three papers re-
ceived onc-third l$4,53o 91.) The aggregate
amount received by these three papers for pub
fishing government advertisements is ST., 283
80; or, to take another view the government
of the United States pays three papers in the
city Of Washington more than $25 900 each,
annually, for inserting the same advertisements.
We have only included in the above calcutta
ton the advertisements which have been paid
for, there are many bills yet remaining unpaid,
the amount of which we cannot ascertain.
To recaptulate !
Congressional printing and paper, Department print
ing and paper, including Binding
and engraving ............-...... 1851, 90S 90
Government advertising. ........... 246,200 10
Blanks, drafts, stamps, 6c.......... 2S2.S04 80
Paid Intelligencer for books ....... I30,770 90
81 ,407, 6S2 AZ
This is the amount expended by the govern
ment during the year 1855 for the purposes
mentioned.
We have obtained this information from an
official document, published in pursuance Of a
law Of Congress, by "a. o. P. Nicholson, pub
lie printer" and paid for by the government,
and for which we paid bookseller in this city
SO So We presume this is one of the per-
quisites Of the Office Of public printer!