The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-08-13


party papers here, paying to The Psnnsyl-
ronsdn ten or fifteen thousand dollars, and
to the Philadelphia argus five thousand
dollars more? Was it from the kindness OF
his heart, and the lberality of the man
That is a pretty large sum TO pay.
i VOICE. You say you have the docu-
ment there-why don't you read 1t, 80 that
we can Judge for ourselves aud be satisded
Laughter.
Mr.. TRUMsULL. | waut you to be salts
fed want you to be satisfied that the
money of this Government has been used
in your own city to corrupt the ballot-box.
EXCITED GESILEHAN IL THE CRowo. No,
sir, that amt so
Cries of Put him out! " put him out
and feeble sensation, which soon subsidized.
Mr.. TRUMBULL. Mr.. Heart, the superin-
tendent of the public printing, testified be-
fore that committee, that there had been
elected since 1852 eight persons as printers
to Congress. He says of these but three
/ had the requisite buildings and materials to
do the work, and that the work was farmed
out, and the difference on the entire amount
paid by the publicity you, fellow-ci'izens,
and collected out of your pockets in common
with the pockets of the people of the whole
country. The difference between the sum
Ddiu puDllC plIhtSlSs anu INC gum pun
| BY them TO those who did the work was
S4O0,o 900. And for this 100000, no equiv
slent services were rendered, the actual
printer generally having power of attor-
pey from the nominal one and req resenting
him in every particular. The amount paid
for printing was some 81, 100, 600 and AGO.
900 more was paid by the public than the
men paid for having the work done. Mr..
! Wendell, who did this work, contributed
largely for party purposes, and when asked
how he came to pay these sums he testified
that he made some of them by direction of
the Executive-at the request of the PreSi-
dent himself He said the President had
control over the Executive printing, includ
| ing that of the Post Office blanks, the print
| ing OF which was given out in such way
| that the printer, as the testimony shows,
was able to make more than ninety three
per cent. of profit. EXCITED GENTLEMAN
IN THE CEowD.1 Read from the document
itself, and then we can see for ourselves
! Loud cries of "put him out" which was
quickly done.
l now want to show you how this work
| was done, and wish to make this point
clear to you On one day six orders were
given for printing Post Office blanks. The
| question was asked, could the printing
have beer executed if this printing ntain-
| ed in six orders had been contained in one
| order? Answer: Yes, sir. Question; Just
as well2 Answer: Much more economical
| ly to the Government but not so proftably
| to the printer. A voice, lab, ha and
laughter.) Question Can you convenient
| ly state the difference ia the price for these
six orders, computing them as separate or
! ders, and computing them as one order p
/ fIoo Ion for
composition these Six orders would have
cost $13l5, their sc'nal costw as SCI Is p
Now do you understand how it was that
they managed to give Mr.. Wendell $9l Is
for work which could have been done for
| Sl3.l5?
| A VOICE. Tell US the way, MIR. Trumbull.
| Mr.. =. The way was this They gave out
the printing, for instance, of fifty Post Office
blanks, and the printer charged for compo-
sition for setting up the type. That order
was given, say at O'Clock in the morning,
| and half an hour after a second order comes
for printing fifty more Post Office blanks
and the printer charged for setting up the
| type a second time. At ten o clock another
order is given for Fifty more, aud the print
| er charges for setting up the type a third
| time. And so on the orders are multiplied
and III one day six separate orders for Post
Office blanks were given, swelling the eX-
pense of printing them, from thirteen dol
lars and fifteen cents or, if one compost
ton is included, from twenty-six dollars aud
fifteen cents TO ninety-one dollars aud IF
teen cents. (Hear, hear.) And that is the
! way your Government is managed, and that
is the way the expenditures of your Govern
men. have been doubled, and moro than
doubled, during the rule of the party which
has been in power since 1882. cannot
| detain you on this question in this rain. This
| is but one illustration; the same sort Of exc
| cution of the law runs through the army
| contracts, and through the navy contracts
Some of you know something about the
manner in which i've oak was purchased
for the navy, and you know something about
the coal contracts, and in this way the
money was raised to corrupt the ballot box
and cheat the people. Now, fellow citizens
are YEA for retaining in power party guilty
of such acts as these. "No"1 The diff
Guilty ia not in the law, but in It's execution
The price for the public printing is fixed
but who would have supposed that public
officer would be guilty of such an outrage
as to give separate orders for each Post OF
fee blank he wanted in order to swell the
profits of the printer.
A VOICE. Nobody.
Mr.. TRUMBCLL. think Jon would fine
sufficient cause for change of Admi nistra
ton in the depression of the industrial in
terests of the country, in the extravaganza,
! of the party in power, its profiigacy and il
; the corruptions which prevail, if there were
, no other cause that should impel you It
, hurl them from Office. The great question
! however at issue is the slavery question.
cannot go into that, because it would take
too long. / would have been glad to have
run over the position of this so-calIed Dem
, oeratic party upon that subject; to have
stated its principles. or rather its want 0
principles, for it seems to have none. The
idea in the South seems to be that the Con
stitution of the United States, carries sla
very into all the Territories and protects i
there so long as the Territorial existenc,
T continues and the idea in the North seem.
to be that slaves are the same as any Other
species of property-U mean the idea o
the Northern Democracy and has the
same right in the Territories, but that tn,
people by some sort of unfrendly legisla.
tion may turu IT ont Or in ut hnr words II