Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-07-02
Grimes, Morris, Sells, Pastee, Morlarty.
Stone d Oo-Tne State frtnGtng. -
0&agtling Exposures

0eaxtling Exposures
We have scarcely room in our paper
for the accounts which pour in upon
us from every section of the State, OF
the frauds and stealing Of the republi-
can officers who control the finances.
We have already published . report of
an Investigating Committee showing a
deficiency in the State Treasury Of one
hundred and ten thousand dollars, and
a statement showing that out OF the
monies of the State, two hundred dol
lars had been paid to DR.. Stone for a
salary as bogus superintendent OF Pub
lie instruction, two hundred and fifty
dollars to 4. Sells for the purpose Of
enabling his excellency, Ex-Governor
Grimes to stump the State of Illinois
for the Republican Ticket and two
hundred dollars, for "the pleasure trip
of the Auditors family and their board
and doctors bill at a water cure estab-
lishment."
To-day We publish a report of a Sen
ate investigating Committee contain
ing startling exposures of the name
in which the State has been defrauded
by the republican State Printer. Twen-
ty thousand dollars of the peoples
moncy-twenty thousand dollars taken
from the pockets of the people by the
tax gather-twenty thousand dollars in
this one department of the State alone,
has been unlawfuIly distracted from
the treasury by the party which N n
Of its resolutions adopted at the last
State Convention, grows %virtuouslv in
dignant over the management Of the
national finances.
The report exposes the facts; that
P. Moriarty, State Printer, neglected
his duty by failing to print the Statutes
of the Session as required by section
twenty two Of the Code; that the Gen
eral Assembly passed a law reducing
the compensation for public printing,
which was approved January %, 1857,
and was to take effect from and after
its publication in two newspapers, one
of which was owned bv the State Prln-
ter; that the State Printer neglected
to publish the lac IN the paper owned
by him, until the greater part Of the
printing had been finished thus pre-
venting the law from taking effect and
enabling him to receive compensation
for the rork performed, at the previous
ertraragant rates; and that the sum OF
seventy cents per thousand ems was
charged to the State by the printer for
publishing the census reports, while he
had procured them to be printed by
other parties at forty cents per thous-
and. The committee also report that
the State Printer has printed and re-
ceived compensation for two large vol
umes of seven hundred and thirty four
pages each, both of aohich contain the
same matter, the only difference being
that one of them is tabled in the title
page Senate Documents and the other
House Documents. For this last men
| toned work the Printer received the
sum of five thousand four hundred and
eighty five dollars and seventy cents,
without authority of law. All of these
illegal claims and swindling charges,
amounting to near twenty thousand
dollars, were paid by NJ. L. Morris, Re-
publican State Treasurer on the war
rant of John Pattee, Republican State
Auditor. 1t may not be inopportune
to remark thai more than a suspicioe
exists that one of these high minded
republican state officers was a partne,
Of the State Printer and received {
share of the plumber.
No explanation has yet been giver
Of these damning facts by the repnbli
can press. They can give zone.
The only answer given is, in thu
words of the Gasette Of yesterday; 9Th,
Eads par ~ had better shut up thei
mouths" Whatever may have bee,
done by DR. Eads, so long as thes'
facts stand uneyulaincd and u~ncontra