Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1865-08-17
The County Printing Again.

The County Printing Again.
Ia our last Issue, ws In reply to an ar
ties written By the man who stole q pa
per from the Clerks oRee and pablisbed
in ths koapartil, Nc admitted that
Bafks's bid was lower than ours ; but at
thai time We did not know that be vas
swindling In the oouas-that be counted
tweasy-foRr blanks for a Quire. when tbs
bids gore for quirss s'Fools Cap Size"
By his gay of counting where eight blanks
wess GRATED ca one fools cap sheet, BE
used aud counted bot three sheets for a
quire, when no should hare used and
coanted faeenigf oar &hsets according to
bis bid. Such being ths manner Of his
couasing, bis bid was over three hundred
and hfty per eent higher than ours
Thus, Burke furnishes The County Twen-
ty four Treasursr's Tax receipts for IS
cents, and ws proposed TO furnish ainsty
SIR for 50 cents. Our blanks would cost
ths county s Ia mills each. Burke's
blanks cest the county 3 8 cents each.
Barke's Treasursr's receipts cost ths
county nearly four times as much as ours.
Burke furnishes the county twenty four
shsFiPs Deeds for one dollar. We pro-
posed to fzrnish forty eight for the same
msney-0ur Sherif's Deeds would cost
the County 2 l-2 cents each. Barke's
Deeds costs the coaa.y 1 1-6 cents each.
We proposed to furnish &c subF@e%#s Far
IS cents. Burke furnishes "a for 70
csnta. Our Subpnnas would cost the
eoaaty q htsle over I mills each
BuEke's subpacuas costs the county al
MOST 8 cents each, and being over 200
per cent higher than cur subpGnas.
Barke furnishes the County twenty
four small blanks--four to the half sheet
f5oIs cap for 60 cents. We proposed to
fxaish oEe hundred and ninety two Of
tho same kind Of blanks for IS cents.
Our blanks would cost the county q
little over four mills each.
Rarke's blanks costs the comfy 2 I2
zach, being almost six times as high as
odrs.
We proposed to publish the proeeeI-
ings Of the Board Of Supervisors and the
reports Of the Clerk and Treasurer fer
10 sents per 1000 ems. Burke gets =
cents per square for tie sumo work, being
almost four times as much as vi propos.
ed TO charge the county for il.
For Publishing the report Of claims al
lawed against The county Published on the
22d Of July, Burke, according to the rec
ord, il entitled to fourteen dollars and
eighty cents far the drst Insertion. We
proposed to do tho same work fer three
dollars and eighty-four cents. For pub
lishing the Treasnrer's Report Burke viii
get over ffly dollars. We would have
published IL for fourteen dollars
It's proper to remark that for this
printing, Burke, II paid by tho record
wiIl reeeiYe between sixty and seventy
dollars, whfe il our bid had been accept
cd, ftwouia baye cost the county less
than eighteen dollars. And it is proper
further to remark, that Burke gets this
seventy dollars BY the stealing Of his bid.
Ia which be- proposed to do this printing
for Nothing.
notwithstanding these facts burke
claims that his bid vas twenty-five PEI
eensiower than ours, and on some things i
xas provided be had counted qaires ac
cording to the bids put mi s. "Fools
Cap Sizs," and proyi lei further, that b
hsd not, or somo one for him, stolei
his bid and substituted another viii
hagass EguFes la It's place, from vhieI
the record was made up.
We state thcss facts, and make thi
showing 10 stter to show che people BIO,
tbes are sw9ndled By those who claim a
ts honesty aud patriotism 10 the land
Se all not say that tho Board Of Super
sisss sac responsible for this sxindIs
bat wswTifrsy shas certain efEcisls Al
afairg ana abcttiug It, and that 80 Ion
asahag remsia in szea the eou7ty will
ssisdisa. Let tho people remedy to
msatss nc The pext election.
The Pohtiae laiioh.) Jaeksoata
faily endorses tie movement OF Messr
Lsrx. Corr aud otbffs, Of Ohio, In form
d. State Sovereignty Party: