Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1859-10-22

Il IyoI ANAkRNo ~ rNNA tfANt-
.srs 10 examine the accounts Pounp Car
penter has alreaGy presented against the
state for printing on bis contract to do ne
State Printing for nothing (ameaneine
already to ncall, forty thousand dollars.)
will find au item as follows:
LaJels for Assembly p. 0. l49 gaires,
l40 tokens, $2o2,6 Ga
These labels, il will be understood, were
the names Of members 10 be pasted for
convenience on the boxes Of tho post Office
kept in the assembly chamber. There
WIS, we presume, 40 names, making 40
labels. Now these flames probably occn-
lpied enc Of most ssso sheets Of paper, we're
probably printed at one or at most tuo
pulls Of the press, and two Or three hours
might have been consumed all told, IN do.
ing the job. Yetit will be seen he has
! chaiged for i4J quires Tor four thousand
jive hundred and serenity SIC sheets Of pa
per- and l49 tokens of press work or what
is equivalent IN the pressing or printing Of
thsrty fire thousand se0en hundred and sir.
ty sheets Of paper, sufficient 70 keep an or
binary steam press running three days
without intermission.
This will doubtless be considered a very
remarkable account, when it is understood
that very promineul feature of the law
under which this contract WAS let, is that
no constructive charges shall be allowed,
but pay shall be made only for work actis-
ally performed and material actually FIR
uished, but it is not more remarkable than
al least one hundred TENS running through
tie account; indeed we might say all the
items composing an account swelling in the
aggregate to nearly forty thousand dol
iarsi
\ One sheet Of paper il will be seen ha:
been magniied into thirty.fve thousand
seven hundred and sirty.fVe sheets; ane
oae pull ofpress a0ork (the labor Of bal
n mlnute) has been magnified into TIRE,
It'll days preSswork Of steam press
| BY decision recently made by the Su
preme Court in the case where Hastings
the Treasurer, refused to pay the accoun
of SAM Crawford, audited BY Secretary
! Jones, discretion has been conferred Of
Hastings in paying such accounts. He i,
now using this discretion in stopping th
wholesale plumber. Very recently an .ac
count has been presented to him Of s75C
duly audited ana allowed BY Secretary
Jones, for printing "the statement Of th,
condition Of the Banks of tho State o
Wisconsin on Monday, July A." such print
ing being ordered by the Bank Comptrol
Ter. Now the law expressly provides tina
such bills shall be paid for by tax on th
banks themselves, and in that way has al
! such printing heretofore been paid th
amount Of such jobs az this, heretofore be
ing taxed at some $4,000. Yet Seclotar
Jones has audited this account as 70
!. blanks at 5000 per quirc--one hundred
and twenty-five quires- $4,000 Th1
work has not the first feature Of blan
about it--no more THAI 4 reprint Of Tia
! first chapter Of Genesis would have
Hastings Of course refused 70 pay il.
We desire to call the attention Of ia,
: payers to this thing. Already has at leas
$50, 100000 been directly stolen from III,
Treasury. Hastings has been authorize,
by the Supreme Court to shut the door
aud he mas done it. tie get him out 9
the way is the first great mission Of tn
plunderers. We have not q particle .
doubt, and we say it ID all candor, that i
! a full democratic board TREASURER includ-
1 ed, can be got into power at Madison,thal
this contract of Carpenters under which
he agreed to do sor whole year the print
ing Of the State for 100000, will b
stretched to take at the very lowest figart
ont Of the treasury, 100000. Mh.Fret
democrat.