The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-01

changes in our city charters which have taken
place during the last two and a quarter
centuries, and will well repay perusal 1t is
the only complete history of our local gov
eminent that has yet been given to the
public.
The Printing Swindle at Albany and tho
TerwilIiger Case-some Points for Inves-
tigation.
A very pretty little game is being played at
Albany to befog, mystlfy and cover up the
enormous printing frauds by which the people
have been bled to the amount of nearly half
million dollars a year for several years past
by the enterprising printers and journalists at
the State capital, led by the firm of which
Thurlow Weed is the head. Several days ago
the HERALD showed that in the supply bill of
1871, Weed, Parsons & Co., of Albany, figured
for the neat sum total of one hundred and
eighty thousand dollars, mainly for worthless
books ordered by the Legislature and bogus
claims for extra composition, extra litho-
graphing and the like, while, In the same year,
the whole amount expended upon department
and legislative printing reached between four
and five hundred thousand dollars. Since
then an investigation, now going on before
legislative committee into the management
of the State Insurance Bureau. has developed
the fact that, to secure the printing Of
that department, Thurlow Weed and his
partners paid to an agent, named South
wick, twenty-five per cent of the amount
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of course, made up by overcharges to the
State The Legislature, unable to close its
eyes to these disgraceful operations, moved for
an inquiry into the contracts existing and the
amounts expended for State printing last year;
but the Senate refused to extend the investiga-
ton into the printing operations of 1869 and
1870, and in the Assembly the subject was
referred to the Printing Committee parlia-
mentary method of smothering it altogether or
of submitting very dirty piece of business to
whitewashing process.
The game now is to raise great deal Of
political smoke over certain charges of
paltry character brought against the Senate
Clerk, James Terwiliger, for receiving the
sum of four thousand dollars from Weed,
Parsons & Co. for proof-reading or other
services, and, under cover Of this, to evade
all inquiry into the plumber of nearly half
million dollars year from the State Treas
ury by these Albany cormorants. The
Terwilliger business is o picayune affair."
not worthy of consideration, and should
not be permitted to divert attention from the
principal peculators. It has already been
proved that Weed, Parsons Co. paid
twenty-five per cent to secure the printing of
the Insurance Department report, and this in
direct violation of the law creating the bu-
reau (chap. 366, sec. 3. Laws of 1889, which
provides that such report "shall be printed by
the printer employed to print legislative docu-
ments" Now let the Committee drop the
how much percentage Weed, Parsons IL Co.
have paid to the State Engineer and Survey
or's Department for the printing jobs, map
lthographing, &C., obtained from that office.
While upon this subject let them inquire
whether, in 1869, the State Engineer and Sur
veyors report was twice printed-once under
the regular legislative printing contract of the
Argus Company and again by the enterprising
firm of Thurlow Weed & Co. To aid their
investigation we will supply them with the
following points I'm 1869 Truman G. Young
love was Speaker of the Assembly.
The State Engineers report was printed
by the Argus Company, the legislative
printers holding the contract After the
printed report had been supplied to the men,
beers a resolution was adopted by the Assem-
bly, ordering some five thousand extra copies
to be furnished under direction of the Speaker.
Now let the Legislative Committee inquire
whether Speaker Younglove, although the re-
port was already in print gave the order to
reprint IL to the firm of Weed, Parsons & Co.;
whether that firm did the work, using over
again the maps they had previously supplied
to the Argus Company, and been paid for by
the State; whether Weed, Parsons h Co. got
into the Supply bill Of 1870 two items-one
for printing and binding four thousand seven
hundred copies of the State Engineers report
for 1869, amounting to &c. 3l SO, and the
other for lithographing maps for said re-
port 81, 800; and finally, whether any per.
centage was paid by Weed, Parsons & Co.
on this steal, and, if so, to whom?
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