The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-03-02
CORRUPTION N CONGRESSIONAL PaISlhxd
REPORT OF TIE SELECT COMMITTED
COnspirccics 10 The Contracts with Engraver'
Lilhographes and Paper Merchants.
Seaman and Wendell tho PrinCipd
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asst but the committee not announced until the l7
day Of January On the 18th day Of January the commit
&c organized, and In pursuance OF resolution Of tht
House, appointed Theodore r. Andrews their clerk and
stenoerspher. III
Your committee began their examination by calling th
present George W. Bowman before rheu
in order TO ascertain how tho office OF superintendent
organized II rs proper here TO state that tho Office q
superintendent was created by the act OF August
The fret superintendent died within year after his APP
poinment ana Mr. Seaman, whose accounts your com nit
tee we're directed TO Investigate was appointed In tue
Of 1853 He was eappointed IN Dcembr 1885, and coa
tioued IN Office until December, 1857, AZ which tme hf
was succeeded by tho prtseot Superintendent.
Inc committee nave confined TIER EXAMINATION "a near
~ as possible TO the period OF Mr. Seaman
cy-that ", fom December 1893, - December, 1851
Much irrelevant testimony mas been tasen oy reason ~
posed upon the committee 10 resort 10 every expedeat
cord presented for the consideration Of the House. th
committee osse tner report upon sucn laos only ~ nav
been established BY direct and competent testimony
Your committee have given 10 the subject entrusted %
them as horough an examination their united time
lowed And they believe that as many material facts
been developed as was possible under the and
ba'rssspg circumstances under which they haze acted
They deem IL proper here to state that both with rcfo
renee TO tho attendance Of witnesses (~o OF
whom they felt obliged u report specially to the House
for contumacy), and with reference TO the extreme d
Guilty experienced In obtaining from some OF the w,tness
no hair knnv aiva
that the investigator has been attended with difficulties
no ordinary characters and that owing 70 these difficulties
many material matters are suggested 10 the evidence
which 1t has not been IN the power oil the committee fully
TO discoee
HOW TIE ACCOUNTS or rHB SUPERINTENDENT WE'RE Kkpr.
bas beef found that the books OF The late Supefntcn
dent have been kept in manner 60 loose and neggeat
as TO make almost impossible TO ascertain, with aay
proper correctness the condition Of the accounts between
his ofhce and the government
The testimony OF Dr. Quail shows that 1t cannot be a.
certaned from these BOOKS, wtnin some hundreds Of
reams how much paper was received nor how much was
delivered 10 the Public Printer and that neither these
nor the accoun! OF paper on hand can DO
Large invoices OF paper were received without any nspec
ton sometimes by an irresponsible party the Oloy
OF the Public Printer laborer or watchman in Mr. Wed
dens o;e appears TO have had TO very great extent
the charge OF the delivery or the paper TO the Public
Printer His memorandums were kept on loose slips ot
paper afterwards sen 70 the clerk whose duty was to s
perintend this matter From these slips the official receipts
were made up monthly but as IN the case OF the other
accounts Inc ocal receipts and the slips DO not agree
Those slips have been collected and pasted into Book
Tor by the present some paper
described in them Is not covered by any official receipt
In Iufner Illustration OF the manner IN woicn the BOOKS
were Kept your committee would refer 70 The accounts
Tor paper 70 the binders Tor waste leaves Prior
10 ne Isl OF april 1906 paper Tor nose leaves was fur
nshed by the superintendent OF Public Printing The
Dnders charged the same 10 the senate ana House, and
was paid for at prices out Of the contingent fund
OF the two houses then became the duty OF the binders
to pay back the amount SO collected TO the Superintendent
OF Public Printing to close his account for the paper sup
phed Inc accounts kept Dy the superintendent with the
public binders appears 10 nave been closed by double red
ines drawn underneath them Some instances occur OF
lateral lines drawn across the page below with the words
carried forward" IN whch reference 70 the pages 70
which eucn accounts are severaiy proessody carried
SHOWS no palance really carried Forward am these &C
counts therefore, show no balances due 10 the govern
ment.
Upon an investigation, the present superintendent e.
w. bowman, ascertaned THESE facts, that accounts pur
porting to be closed had not been in fact closed and that
large Quantities Of paper furnished to bn1ers prior 10 his
appointment had not been paid for These accounts thus
shog were maze out ana sent 10 the binders Tor pay
ment Ihe largest amount, no II, was due from Mr.
Arnold, OK Phiadeipnia when Mr. Arnold was spoken TO
on the subject he said the account had boon settled by
way OF loan TO Mr. Seaman that he bad refused 70 make
the lean until Mr. Seaman promised TO arrange It 10 the
sette OF MS waste eai account rms however was
lot COne and Mr. Arnold paid the amount Mr. 30