The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-02-15

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BY proper application Of the Albany princi-
pies of manipulation, can be doubled in four
years, and give an annual plumber equal to
four hundred millions of dollars. This multi
piled by four, argues Weed, Is sixteen hundred
millions of dollars, q sum which will cover o
multitude Of sins when we get it-and render
our defeat impossible. This is the character of
the cool calculations of the leaders of the black
republicans. For this Seward is content to
strike hands with Wendell Phillips, Wilson ac-
knowledges that the Gamaliel at whose feet he
sat is VIM. Lloyd Garrison, Sherman and Grow
endorse Helper, Greeley canonizes John Brown,
and the whole of them seek to form British
anti-American slavery union and urge de-
structive revolution throughout the Union.
The Printing Conflict In the House OF
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Plumber and
Corruption.
1t will be perceived by reference to DUR
report of the proceedings in Congress that the
election of Printer to the House of Represents
tves is postponed till to-day. From the
report of Mondays proceedings it appeared
that Mitchell. the candidate of Blair and Bates,
had been put almost hors de combat, receiving
only one vote, though in the first caucus of the
republican members he counted majority.
Defrees, the candidate of Seward and Weed,
was in the ascendant, having received eighty
nine votes, and only wanting three to elect
That looks ominous for Greeley's candidate at
the Chicago Presidential Convention, and fore
shadows the supremacy Of Seward and the
triumph Of the "irrepressible conflict" doctrine
in the councils of the republican party. 1t does
not, however follow that Defrees will be elect
ed Printer. The democratic candidate was
only one vote behind him; and as the
plumber is so vast and as Glossbrenner has a
long purse, seeing that he was the man who
supplied the penniless members with funds
when they could not legally draw their pay, it
is possible that weighty and convincing argu-
ments may be presented to four or five men,
bers to induce them to give him their votes
He wanted but four TO elect him on Monday
There is rich placer at stake, which will
amply repay little outlay in clearing away
the rubbish from the shining gold beneath.
The Washington Constitution, owned aud
edited by Bowman, formerly Superintendent OF
the Public Printing, and therefore a man
who is or ought to be well acquainted with all
the details of the subject on which he writes,
ridicules the idea of the public printer being
able to pay " Subsidies" of $4,000, or $4,000,
and of pocketing 100000 profit Does he for
get that Mr.. Wendell has sworn that be paid in
three years 100000 by way of subsidies to
country newspapers? The Constitution says
the total amount paid for the printing of both
houses Of Congress in seven years has been but
ono million and thirtv.three thousand dollars
Sl,033 ,O0O). This Is fallacious statement, and
as Bowman is now the contractor for the print
ing of the Senate, it is his interest to make the
country believe that there Is little or no profit
from the job. Let us test his statement by the
official proceedings Of Congress.
The Select Committee appointed under the
resolution of the House Of Representatives
December 9, 1857, reported April 81, 1885,
through their chairman, Mr.. George Taylor, of
Kings county, that the per centags paid by the
mbcontractor to the various public printers
on the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Con-
gress amounted to $4,000 per month,
and varied but little from S24O,OOO
per year-being mere emoluments Of their
sinecure ofices-while the sub-contractor
realized above that amount handsome re-
serve profit for himself. The per centsge to
the public binder had, up to that time,
amounted, at twenty per cent, to $4,000. The
gross amount of binding for the Thirty-third
Congress is $53s,45s, for the Thirty-fourth
Congress, $3s4,6s6-the per centage on the
former being $l07,69l, and on the latter
being $76,937; and these profits are realized
without any equivalent whatever being rem
dered by the sinecurist. The prices of the
binding done for the departments are still
higher, the blank books costing from thirty to
fifty per cent more than such books can be
procured for. The gross amount of paper pur-
chased for the printing of the Thirty-third
Congress was $500,456, for the Thirty-fourth
Congress, $50, l63-both running up more
than million one hundred thousand dollars
besides $l61, 209 for paper for the departments
in the Thirty.fourth Congress The Congress
sional Globe, for the Thirty third and Thirty
fourth Congresses, cost s497, 444-nearly half a
million of dollars. The cost Of engraving,
ithographing and electrotyping for the Thirty
third Congress is ss29,s5s, for the Thirty fourth
Congress, 1851, S24-amounting for both Con-
crosses, to slls1, 6S2-over million one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
In the appendix to the report of the commit
tee, the grand totals for the cost of printing,
binding and engraving for the two Congresses
are given as follows
Total for Thirty third Congress 025 1877 %
Total for Thirty fourth Congress. 23l ,el1 90
Grand total Tor two Congresses ,l67 ,4ae 81
Thus, for space of four years, the printing,
including binding and engraving amounted to
upwards of five millions one hundred and fifty