New-York tribune., 1872-02-28

sto he furnished 1850 diagrams to the Assembly at
a. oents per copy that year in the following year. or
1s he furnished s7IO diagrams TO Mr. Cushman for the
Assembly paid nothing as commission until tho Dill OF
tbe following year, the percentage for the first year
- Z. souored" by a settlement Of bills after the
-, gas completed; figured up onethrd and paid that
amount TO clerks after the bill had been settled and paid
theproht after the percentage was paid wae ioS'
66i per cent they touch Job, for private
parties for less than per cent? profit often amounts 70
i5O per cent Mr.. Cushman complained about mo per-
20 being paid him in 1862 when he tor settle
his bills in 1904 his partner settled the bill Of 1864 with
Cushuan and then q compromise effected by allow
tpc percentage OF 2 per cent the bills for each YEAR
The Is per cent received by Cushman on bills OF 1868
amounted TO $500 tho price Of diagrams that year was
50 GENTS per copy the firm furnished portion OF the
diagrams in 1864 toOboth Houses supplied Assembly
with 7s0 copies at 40 cents each other parties furnished
A osO comics; paid Cushman 26 per cent commission,
winch amounted about S71O Mr. Terwilliger was paid
about 500 that year Mr.. Cushman furnished with
small amount OF paper and envelopes; per
centage was paid that; in 1858 our
firm furnished 7,lsO diagrams to the Assembly az %
cents per copy; other parties furnished 1880 copies ana
pad S percentage commission that year; the percent
age amounted to about 600 that job we furnished
20 the the year COO diagrams $50 per cent
commission The witness here furnished samples OF
diagrams supplied to each House from 1862 down 10 the
present time and showed that in 1862 they were due
ANAL and printed but and in one color ana no"
tbey had nearly doubled in sze until they contained he
name not only of all the members and officers but nun
list OF all the committees the first time tDat the S' VI
committees put in 1858 in the Assembly NO
increase in size until 1884, when the price % cents
per COPY had heard that other parties pald
IN clerks but knew nothing personally alter Pa'ik
centage In 1865 their profits were not less thah "i
cent. cost more than previous years on account Vi IL
o.f.1o vH 1QfO m
1900 diagrams to the Assembly at 60 cents per COPY
otng paid s percentage that year; did not remember
ANYTHING being said about percentages other nls uu
toon OF the work that year this was the last year
that Cushman was clerk. Weed, Parsons Co. supphed
them tho next year, witness did S40o worm
OF work for the Senate that year. PAID no
commissions; the firm Of Lewis q GOODWIN
Dissolved that year, have since been member OF tne
firm of Murray Goodwin; this firm dld WOIk ioI OUt %
Houses i'm 1885, paid no percentage to the CLERK OF 1e
senate filed two orders for diagrams for the Assembly
in 1865 when c. W. Armstrong, Democrat "as "d Iot
of Is7O copies enlarged with list OF committees on Tt
20 cents per did not pay MI hLsGms am T no
centage or commission, nor make MIN pIeseI.ti Nv
gifts made talks hint about either peroenbsSSf
cOmmssion or presents; furnished Mr. Armstrong hoout
$500 worth OF stationery that year psa no aobv
on that; furnished no diagrams, I,C jor 4bnS vera
supped by other parties did work for several Of tho
state officers that year and year since pau no
graphing bilheads. leterheads SCI the proht ranged
from 80 to 100 per cent i Is nsusi Ior % % 9o er cent
9TOft on portions Of the work. IN lsU, Hneu hI; AI.n
STRONG was Clerk Of the Assembly we neu TWO OrueIsor
diagrams the first lot of 450 copies at ~ cents per COPY
QUESTION How does IL happen that you paid CLERKS per
eeuages in years and not IN others answer. no
paid percenages iu former years under the custom OF
usage: MIR Armstrong and Mr.. Calkns gave us no hnt
that they did business in that way q Ihen they ulo
not keen up the customl A. No, Sir. .. DO you Know
OF any percentage being paid prior to 1862f A. yes s
% Who byq A By ii. L. Pease, in 1850, on diagrams
furnished to the Assembly, when Mr. hlcharoson Was
Clerk: was bookkeeper Mr. Pease, and attended 10
norton OF his outside business percentage OF so per
cent was paid Mr. Richardson on the diagrams Iupnshe9
and that amount entered upon the DOOks mf IenHT1
an with One-thrd commission on tne ene u
in one column of the ledger and charged WIN cash 10 @
same amount on the other de Mr. Pease only lurhsne9
porton of the diagrams that year; the Dl anlouhteu
20 S9o of which sSi per cent sO the amount paid him
O How was il paid check or currency a; Iooh
the hin 10 the Assembly Chamber, ana MT hcnaTusOu
maid II in fun; then told him would see nun the DeX
dav he told me he did want should DrlnR cneck
10 the Assembly Chamber but to bring the currency 70
his house: fixed the time to meet him. ana went hnu
maid hin the SO In bills this was the hrs transaeuOn
that he ever had of the kinds this was Tue het ADV"
edge that he had Of the custom. .,,.,,
the witness was CrOSSeXaInlncu ~
length in regard TO why he paid percentage to Cushman
and Terwilger and 10 Mr.. Armstrong and CaIKns
while they were clerks with the view to see n mr Snsh
man exacted percentages The only point obtained was
flat he never felt like voluntarily Offering percentages
II appeared from the testimony that the Dlls IOr u
by the clerks out OF contingent iunl
VIM NcwCOmb, bookseller ana stationSl5 w. We q, NJ
oaWad. FnTnshed a small amount OF stationery 70 MT
fnderhil when he was Clerk OF the Assembly uu ~, uV
nav him any cOmmissiOni had iurhlsneu SU.o W IA
ffSderwood Clerk of the Assembly, this WINTER ha9
made no Arrangement for percentage; Mr OnueTWoou
sad when he came purchase that he Wahteu W set n
eupphos at a fan market price,