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

Man OF +" Right Moral sympathies"
and "Heaven.Born Instincts."
UNsYSTEMATIC STEALING.
An examination of the public printing
bills of WILLIAM R. MARSHALL, which have
been allowed and paid by the State, show
that be has been remarkably systematic in
the tact of stealing, and as remarkably
loose and unsystematic in the manner of it
And this, from the fact that Mr.. MARSHALL
has prided himself on his business qualiica-
tions, has excited our surprise. For in
stance: we find, in many places, legislative
bill of one page charged at 1874, and in
other places, bills of precisely the same
length, set in the same type, of the same
size, and requiring the same amount of
paper and presswork, charged at $8.46.
And the smaller charge is at least twice
above the legal rates, under the most liberal
computation. We find, also, bills of three
pages charged at SLIGO, and other bills of
the same length, precisely like the former,
charged at $l2.38. We find, also, bills of
six pages charged at 1888, and bills of
FIVE pages, (for which, on the single item of
composition, he was entitled to $1.5l less,)
charged at the same price. We find, also,
bill of eighteen pages charged for at
$48.0S, while sixteen page bill is charged
for at $3.50. Mr.. MARsHALL's attention
having been called to this glaring discrep.
ancy, at the Auditors Office, be attempts to
explain it in his paper by assuming that
only part of the latter bill as printed. was
charged for. But, unfortunately for his
veracity, the bill itself is on file, showing it
to be complete, and that it contains only
the sixteen pages charged for at this quad
ripple rate of $3.50. The official records
are stubborn things, and they wont lie, even
to serve the purposes of a man of the fright
moral sympatbles" and "heaven, born in
stincts' of WILLIAM R. MARSHALL.
STATEMENT FROM Mr.. RAMALEY, SHOWING
THAT, INSTEAD OF AN ovERCHARGE BY Us
ON THE LAWS OF 1858, THE STATE STILL
OWES US $1O5.
In reference to Mr.. MARsHALL's charge
that the paper and press work items in our
bill for the Laws of 1858, were erroneous,
we call attention to the following statement
by Mr.. RAMALEY by which it appears,
that, following Mr.. MARsHALL's rule of
wastage, the State is still indebted to this
Office, on account of that job, in the sum OF
$l05. If Mr.. MARsHALL's wastage theory
shall be adopted by the State, we shall ex.
pect an appropriation, for that amount, to
be made by this Legislature. with interest
from October, 1858, to the present. Mr..
RAMALEY's statement follows:
Editors Pioneer and Democrat:
GENTLEMEN: In this mornings Press, l
find certificate by my friend o. q. MILLER,
Esq, which requires an explanation upon
my part.
With respect to the manner of compute
ton upon bills, the custom of measurement
for the type had been, previous to Mr..
MARsHALL's being elected incidental prin.
ter, one line of space, of the same depth
as the type, to one lime Of rsading-
in confederation of which l refer to
GEORGE W. MOORE, ESQ.,, of the late firm of
FOSTER & MOORE, to T. M. NRwsoN, Esq,
and to o. G. MILLER, Esq, who was FORE
man on the State work, in the PIONEER
Office, in 1857 and 1858; and to the bills on
file in the Auditors Office, from the year
1856 up to the year 1860. Taking this as
the basis of computation, upon the items
examined in the bill filed February 10th,
1861, noticed the Bills were set up in
Bourgeois type,-that the lines were so
ems long,-that there was an average ofM
lines of reading matter in page,-which,
allowing "a lines for space, would make 48
lines and 48 lines multiplied by so ems
long, would give 24O0 ems in each SPACE.
Now, it may be replied that this is not the
usual method of computation of type by
printers but IN the case Of Bills, the Gus,
tom was to use Plea type, and Plea reglet
or space lines (; and for Mr.. MARsHALLs
convenience, not having Plea type, prob
ably, be used Bourgeois type. And that 10
adontina this custom with reference ia hills