New-York daily tribune., 1858-12-29

the establishment aud maintenance Of separate
Offices arising from the fact that large portion OF
the composition" or type-setting - eAecuNu
bat once, and Is pad for twice or ~ IL mas oc-
Cured in some cases and viii again occuf' Pa'd
for four tin,o-being twice for eseh holSe Ihe
loss TO tho National Treasury By TINS s"indle is to
be measured by hundreds OF fnousahds OF domrs
The Superintendent grSnnbe', as it is his moral
If NOT b;s no,t;cal duy 10 do, that the heads Of
Deps,tments reouir BIS office to furnish them
with extra cooes Of documents, ordered to be
printed bv etber House Of Congress, when there
A no law phateyer saoctiOniug TINS their claim.
With u,ene occasion does he timidly murmur that
tbe sccOsnts with the Public Printers for paper
frpsbet them have not been settled yearly, and
are not rettled yearly, as is required by law. He
bss speot much time, and has hired the time of a
gang Of ofbookbeepers, besdes to ascertain how much
paper tbeSefe have pad, and how much money
they ought to be char ID with Vain labor, oh
Superintendent You may well say that your In
sestigaon I" did no. result satisfactoriy-the fact
"being developed that, for great length of time,
"the paper purchased for the printing Of Congress,
amounting in value to hundreds Of Thousands of
"dollars, had been received from the contractors
"and delivered to the public printers by persons
"not employed BY and wholly irresponsible to your
" Office for the proper performance of that inpor-
g tant duty-persons whose very crude memoran-
(" dums in pencil often appear to be the only iu-
" formation upon which entries have been msde in
" the books Of the Office, and which have proved
" TO be unreliable"
The Democratic binders too, have for FIVE years
been allowed TO leave their accounts for paper,
furDifhed for 90 waste leaves" in an unsettled,
and, what is worse, an uUinteligble condition.
Diligent aid sharp bookkeeping inquiry, by double
entry and by sil gle entry, has failed to make head
or tail of them. 4" Indeed" says the Superintend-
ent, Z" from the uuintelligibe and erratic form of
" entries-the record appearing frequently in pen
" Gil mark, in instances in dupGcate-it
" seems Impossible to arrive at an accurate con-
/" clusOn touching the matter. Up to January,
1884, the binders furnished The paper required
" for waste leaves receiving pay per volume at the
" rate of from one-half to threeiourths of cent
" for Octayos, and from one cent to one cent and
" half for quartos. Finding the paper thus fur
" Dshed of an inferior quality to that used for
"-printing it was deemed proper, for the sake of
" uniformity, that the paper should be furnished
"by my Office. This would have been PLAN and
simple transaction, had it not been for the fact
" that, at the same time the binders we're receiy
" ing paper from this Office, they continued to
receive pay for waste leaves from the Secretary
of the Senate aud the Clerk Of the House, thus
l. nA
dollars in cash ,ohet they had already reoeired in
poper The books Of the office show occasional
payments made by the binders, but as an evil
dence of the unreliability of tho entries need
only mention the fact that one OF the binders Inc
produced receipts for several thousand dolarsfor
"wbich he had received no credit
Over and over does this barrassed and amaz zngly
frank official scoli about the Democratic habit of
ordering, for the bebeit of the Public Printing CO.
partnership at Washington, the publication OF
bully documents long b.tore they have been
written and communicated to Congress. VIII not
the people listen to h's complaints, and demand Of
their representatives TO forthwith abate the
necessity for them The practice is as scandslous
as it is wasteful.
Out of the wilderness Of figures showing the
cost of printing our public documents (for private
emoument) for the first session of the AAAVth
Congress (lo57), ordered by the Senate and the
House at the same time We gather the items OF
the cost of that stupendOusly foolish and wasefu
competition which the Government meahy wages
sgainst the publishers of agricultural newspapers
and magaznes-pe mean the Patent Otfce Re-
port. Its printing, engraving, and binding, cost
the people S26l, l95 %. How enormous sum
for book that by the judgment OF the whole
country, is substantially worthless
The reosp,tulation OF the report of the Super
intendent. surely should arouse the attention of
our feeced people 10 the monstrous robbery that
has been legsllzed in the business OF the Public
Printing IL is as follows:
RECAPITJLATION.
apr@srs the preceding stenents that the cost ~ e
,bl, pntur binding fsr they be-n sNeented
this office, from the passage " TIE Thhs ao VI 1919 "
. Abe presei is as fol.w vs.;
Ptintipk fcI Congress. bl uSooe9 20
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