The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-01-17

devoted, more than half of it, to legislative
business, that the Governor selects to put in
contrast to the year 1861, with legisla.
tive session Of only sixty days.
Now, the amount OF printing done on &C.
count of the current business OF 1858, the
appropriations for which are found in the
volume of General Laws, for 1858, at the
pages specified, was as follows
l. Incidental printing and binding,
page "a, E. 8. Goodrich, printer Sic, 100000
z. Session Laws, and Journals of
Senate and House, page Sc, E. s.
Goodrich printer. 100000
;. Publishing in paper the laws en-.
acted before the recess. page57,
Goodrich, Somers Il Co ........ 234.75
4. Additional incidental printing and
binding, page l09--E. 3. Good.
rich. -. ............... 10000
s. For printing, binding and adver-
Using Except incidental print.
ing,) for the years 1858 and 1859,
page lO9. :.........:..:....... 100000
6. Pub ishing in paper the laws en-
acted after the recess, page 100,
Goodrich, SOmerS d CO... l6O0 90
Total appropriations. .......... $40 334.75
The fifth item of the above table, for
$4,000, was for the printing, binding, and
advertising, not otherwise provided for,
and viii h might accrue from the adjourn>
ment of the First Session in August, 1858,
to the meeting of the Second Session in
December, 1859. Of this appropriation,
there remained unexpended, en- the LIST JAM
uary, 1861, and still remains upexpended,
the sum of $5,379.23. The larger part of
the portion expended of this appropriation,
was received by E. 8. Goodrich, and
GOODRICH, SoMERs & Co.. though consid-
cradle sums went to other parties through
the State, for advertising, and the like.
Deductiug the unexpended part OF this ap-
preparation from the total above given, and
we have left the amount properly charge.
able to 1858, on account of it's current
printing expenses, as follows:
Total appropriation. ..............s 49,334. IS
Unexpended balance. ............. $3.50 %
Total printing .chargeable to 1858, s43, 955.52
Not another cent can be justly charged
to the year 1858, when the printing ex.
penses of that year are to be put in com.
parison with any other year; for in that
amount is comprised ali the ordinary, reg
ular printing done from year to year.
There were, however, other appropriations,
amounting in the aggregate to some
$28 900 more and OF these
|. TO Goodrich, Somers e. Co., for
Supreme Court Reports ordered
| in 1851. $500 co
2. Goodrich, Somers & Co., on &C.
| count of printing, &c, Tor the
Regular and Extra Sessions of
1851. 4,Z2l 10
3. Goodrich, Somers 4 Co., assign
ees of NJ. II. ABBOTT. Territorial
Binder. for the Binding of 1857. 974 so
| 4. Goodrich, Somers T. Co., on &C.
count of the Debates and Jour.
mails of the Constitutional Con.
venlion, presided over by H. II.
| Sibley. in 1851. $500 90
5. Foster & Moore (Minnesotian Of
| fice,) on account of debates and
journals of Constitutional Con.
| ventiOn, presided over by st. A.
D. BalcOmbe, in lS57........- 100000
s. Owens q Moore. assignees of
| ThOs. Foster, balance on incl.
dental printing of h. of f., 1857 ,8Ol.02
| Z. W. A. HOtchklss, for balance due
| on account of the Journals and
Session Laws of 1855 ......... 4,7O4.O3
8. G. l.. Emerson, for balance due
on account o. incidental print
| ing OF 1890. 4,55ZOo
Total appropriations for print
ing of 1855 and 1857. ......... 2s,252, 70
From this is to be deducted amounts
| uneXpended-On item l, $97.l4,
and on item 4, $2l52.......... 1856
Total expenditure for printiug---
| Of 1885 and 1857. S26, ia W
Another item which the Governor brings
in as part of the printing chargeable to
the year 1858, is the cost of the edition of
the Compiled Statutes Of the State. This
publication was necessary one, the cost Of
which will not have to be incurred again
for ten or a dozen years and no just man
would include such an item among the req
ular printing expenses Of any one year, Tor
the purpose of institutiDg an invidious COM
parison. But, to save ali possible cavil, we
will add the cost of the Compiled Statutes
to the printing expenses OF 1858, and we
have
Legitimate expenses of 1858. ...... $43 955, 80
| Compiled Statutes. 10000. 90
Total of Expenditures on account
| of public printing OF 1851. $54, 1852
These are the figures to which Governor
RAMsEY's "wasteful annual expenditure of
nearly $50 coo for printing" dwindle, when
the official records of the State are applied
to his reckless assertions and they
are figures that demonstrate his Ex-
ecutive statement in this respect to