The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-01-10
A Second Glance at a Mo nstrous
Swindle- William r.. Marshall Inn
proving ON Acquaintance, as a Man
OF Right Moral sympathies" and
"Heaven.BOrn Instincts.o

STEALING ON THE SESSION LAWS,
We showed in a former article, that
WILLIAM r. MARSHALL had defrauded the
State Treasury out of $424.3O on the vol
ume OF Session Laws for 1861, on the three
items of paper, press work, and indexing,
alone, as follows
In charging for 1917 reams of paper
more than used in printing the edi-
ton, a $40 per ream. $l6l 20
In charging for Il tokens of press work
more than was done on the edition,
a 60 cents. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. IL 60
In charging for indexing, &c. which
the law requires to be done by the
Secretary of State. $50 90
Making total of theft on these three
items, o.. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $4Z4 ~
STEALING ON THE INCIDENTAL PRINTING.
We showed, also, that on 38 items, rem
dered in a single bill, for part Of the Incl
dental printing of the last session, which
items amounted, as charged by Mr.. MAR
SHALL, to the sum of $6l9.32, there was
swindle of $256.l5-the just and legal
charge for these items, according to the
most generous computation, being only
$363.l7. We will give specimen or two
of the stealing on the incidental printing,
just by way OF samples. In the account
filed in the Auditors Office, on the 10th
February, 1861, there is this item
400 per diem certificates. Sill 20
The composition on this per diem certii-
cate, does not amount to over 1000 ems,
which, at the legal rate, comes to 63 cents.
A token of press work is 24O impressions /;
therefore there are two tokens in this job
of 400 copies, which, at the legal rate of
60 cents per token, comes to $1.20. Six
of these certificates are printed on a single
sheet of foolscap paper therefore 81 sheets
of paper were used in printing the 400 GER
tifcates. 81 sheets make less than 3 quires.
But, not to be mean in the computation, we
call it 3 quires, and allow 30 cents per quire,
which is at the rate of Sc a ream for FOOLS
cap. This would make the paper amount
to 80 cents. These three items of compos
sition, press work, and paper, cover all that
is done, or furnished, or can be charged for,
upon these 400 certificates, and they sum up
as follows:
Composition on per diem certificate, 1000
tokens press work, "a 60c............ 1.2O
quires paper, "a SOC. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 80
Total legal charge. .................$2.73
The charge made by Mr.. MARSHALL,
which the State paid, and he received and
receipted for, was, as we have seen, $ll.2O.
OF that SILL 20, therefore, $847 was steal.
ing, for which the State was rendered no
equivalent.
Another charge in the same bill was of
$6.61, for 200 per diem certificates Fol-
lowing the above rule of computation, the
legal charge for this item was $1.S3.
There was steal, therefore, of $478 out
of this little charge of $6.6l.
Another charge was of $1l.14 for $50
yeas and nays for the Senate-the legiti-
mate charge for which was $3.50 making
further steal of 1881.
These are samples enough for Ole days
digestion in the incidental printing line, and
they are of character to justify our high
est admiration for the right moral sympa
thies," and " heaven-born instincts" of the
Public Printer, WILLIAM r. MARSHALL.
STEALING ON THE JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE
AND SENATE.
While our hand was in, we thought we
would just take look at the two volumes
of Journals of the Senate and House of
Representatives, for the last session. The
bill for all the items connected with these
two volumes, except paper, was filed in
the Auditors Office, September Is, 1861.
We found in that bill these two items for
press work
1876 tokens presswork House Journal,
Covers included,)- a go cents. go. .$lll.OO
Presswork, Senate Journal, l49 tokens,
covers included,) "a 60 cents, ...... $40
Total presswork. .......... ........ s2O0.40
The House Journal contains 488 pages.
In that 488 pages, there are 81 forms of 8
pages each. The edition was 300 copies,
and there were, therefore tokens of press
work to each form. This makes 122 tokens
of press work to complete the body of the
House Journal. There are 2 tokens of
press work on the covers-makiDg in all
124 tokens on the completed volume.
By like computation, we ascertained
that the total of tokens of press work on
the Senate Journal, was 100.
1t follows, therefore, that the stealing on
press work, on these two volumes of Jour-
mails, charged to, and paid by the State,
was:
Overcharge on House Journal, 81 to-
kens, q 60 CENTS. ...................$3 $1,000
Overcharge on Senate Journal, 40 to.
kens, a 60 cents Observation-Disclosures. 29.40
Total presswork stealing on Journals $4,000
This $4,000 is stolen out Of gross
.L...o of onlu &Cn0 An which mo +h;nI,