New Orleans Republican., 1871-09-28

| It is nice little game, Mr.. Dugan. that
the stumptails are trying to play, with you
for the stool pigeon, but You can't chaff the
| peacock up this way. Come in some i'm
penetrable disguise, thou facetious Dngan
| we've dug an attempt at imposition out OF
| your last one.
THE BEE ASKS A QUESTION OR TWO.
The Bee keeps up lively skirmishing
against the Governor, and drags into the
controversy the names of a number of
third parties. The following paragraph
is a sample:
Does the REPUBLICAN wish us to refer to
the printing billl The State paid the last
year, whether in bonds or certificates OF
Indebtedness, six hundred thousand dollars,
of which one-half went to the REPUBLICAN,.
Now, one of our contemporaries has SAID.
without contradiction, that the Governor
owned . half interest in the REPUBLICAN.
We know several editors Of country jour
mails who have had the public printing and
who have had to submit to considerable
discount ON their bills against the State to
obtain payment Of them. Who received
this discount! The REPUBLICAN can tell
better than We can. 1t is impossible to deny
that the Governor has not benefited largely
by this public printing as he has by other
mOnop0lies.
We reply:
l. We have no objection to reference
to the printing bill as often as the Bee
may desire it, But a correct knowledge
of any subject is good thing and indis-
pensable to one who wishes to explain it.
2. If the State paid 5000, GOO for print
ing last year the REPUBLICAN did not get
one-half of that amount. We know that
a number of certificates and warrants, is
sued in 1869 to the REPUBLICAN were car
ried over into the next year and paid out
Of our appropriation of sl25,oOo. Ac-
cordingly, this approE ration fell short,
and another amount was carried over into
1871. The REPUBLICAN has never re-
ceived 90 great an amount as 100000 in
any one year for public printing. The
public has been told that our contract
was worth million and half year, and
the journals that spread abroad such re-
port have not yet thought it worth while
to apologize to their readers for their ig-
norance of Typography and finance.
Again, one-half of 5000, 900 in warrants
and certificates, if it went to the REPUB-
L1cAN, would be worth to our bank ad-
count about s1SO,OOO. Deduct from this
sum the amount paid for labor, material,
ETC., and the profit is not excessive.
3. Governor Warmoth does not own,
and never did own, one-half of the Re-
PUBLICAN, the statement of any contem-
porary to the contrary Notwithstanding.
We do not consider it necessary or proper
to notice every insinustion of the kind
that appears in the columns of our amia-
BILE contemporaries. We trust the Bee
will accept our assurances that our state
ment is strictly true.
4. We also know of several editors Of
country journals who have had to submit
to considerable discount. But the loss
was on the State warrants, which
they sold to brokers at such prices as
they could get, or say from fifty to sixty
FIVE cents on the dollar. Since the
passage of act No. 6, 1870 all journals
have been paid uniform price for pub
fishing the laws. Every account has
been carefully examined at this office,
and the correct amount certified to. The
Governor, Lieutenant Governor and
Speaker of the House then further ex-
anime the accounts, and if they find them
correct they approve them. They are
then taken to the Auditor, who issues
his warrant. Up to this stage in the pro-
proceeding there is no demand for dis
count. But when the payee presents his
warrant at the Treasury, the troubles be-
gin. Mr.. Dubuclet shakeshis head as q
sign of impecuneositH and the holder of
The warrant has no other course left but
to sell it for what it will bring. Here
comes in the discount. ANY New Or
leans journal that has a reporter out
IN Change every day ought to know these
Eacts as well as We do, and we are sur
prised at the implied confession of igno-
:ance on the part of the Bee.
We have not thought it necessary to
consider the insinuation that the country
EDITORS were required to pay the State
,ficers for auditing their bills. Neither
Governor Warmoth, Lieutenant Governor
Dunn, Speaker Carter nor Auditor Graham
would stoop to such an action. Wickliffe
ried the practice, but made failure.
Finally, if the Bee finds it necessary
lereafter to refer to the printing bill and
he business of the REPUBLICAN, we hope
will endeavor to avoid gross errors, as
Injuries itself by its inaccuracies more
han 1t does those whom it assails.
THE TIBER EXPLORATIONS.
From intelligence received from Italy,
appears that the government of that
ountry is about to enter upon an in
estlgatlon of the bed of the Tiber, with