New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-24
s6541
SI,J6I 80
Total cost of ago diagrams.............
4 NALAan uLIce nNnr sEALNIN CnnLs OaNh.

Total cost of 800 diagrams. ,56i 80
Average price over SEVENTY cents odch.
From the above it appears that under the COM
mission system the average cost of printing dia-
grams had risen from less than five cents in 1888 70
~ cents under the direction of CuShman, and over
20 under the direction Of Terwiger. 1t further APP
pears that it had become necessary to pay two diff
fcrcnt concerns for engraving two precisely similar
plates from which to produce this worthless chart of
the two Houses. Perhaps Mr.. Terwilger will favor
the public with an affidavit on the subject of 'dia-
grams, and explain how it was that the bills ran mp
from 10 cents in 1860, when he commenced tue period
of his clerkship 10 20 cents in 1865 when he began
to lay up money. Your correspondent has not made
an examination of the bills Of the years intervening
between 1860 and 1867 except for the year 1864 for
the Assembly which il as follows:
COST OF ASSEMBLY DIAGRAMS n 1864, JOSEPH II. CUsH
MAN, CLERK.
Lewis & Goodwin, for engraving plate. $40
GayItt COwell. for engralin plate .....:... $50
Lewis n Goodwin, for printing 4,7sO ~ 10 CTS. l,P3
Gavtt COwell, fOrpiintng 1850, al ~ cents l'SH
Total cost Of O. 7GO dla grams ,4O4
Average price about FORTY 1--WE cents EACH
With regard to the above bill Of Mr.. Cushmans
il deserves to be known that the voucher on file in
the Controllers Office is entirely in that gentcmans
handwriting the signature being plainly in the same
handwriting as the body of the bill. Now whether
the genuine bill of MessTs Gaytt q Cowell was too
small to match that of Lewis & Goodwin, or what
ever may be the explanation, it is certain that the
receipt handed in by CushInan voucher is a
forgery Furthermore the bill Of T. j. Cowell, paid
in 1865 is entirely i'll Cushnans handwriting, except
the signature. This looks though Cushman had
been instuctng his creditors rather the members
of his ring in the process of making out their bills
The suboined figures will serve to show that tn e
diagram swindle inaugurated by Terwilliger and
Cushman, has been kept up by succeeding Clerks
down to the present day. The year 1868 seems to
have been exceptionally bad one for the diagram
ring but even then Terwilliger made the pictures
cost nearly twice what they did IN his first year,
1860.
COST OF SENATE DIAGRAMS IN 1863 JAMES ILRWiLLGkh'
CLERK. o
George W. Lewis engraving Senate diagram. SEQ
George W. Lewis, mounting diagrams on card
board number not specified say 100 at 81 cal iN
Murray Goodwin, printing and mtng 100 dgms' loo
Total cost OF 800 diagrams ................$4i5
Average price, ONE DOLLAR AND THIRTY-EIGHr CkAIs
each.
Where 200 mounted diagrams can have been dis
posed of is a problem tina: puzzles your correspond
ent. Perhaps half dozen might be hung in and
abont the Senate Chamber. In 1865 Terwilliger had
only ten mounted for which bit of pastng the State
was charged S25, 81 80 per diagram. In 1901
when he was more unsOphisticated, he had "a
mounted for S12. la 1869, when he certified to some
extraordinary bills of Weed Parsons IL Co. he paid
George w Lewis 800 for mounting % diagrams
Oh pasteboaTd or FOUR DOLLARS per diagram. Why,
he might have furnished each Republican Senator
with le-sze photograph Of his honest face for less
than that sum. The same year the upright Under
hill contracted for his diagrams with the old firm Of
Weed Parsons & Co, receiving probably the regular
20 per cent
oosr on ASSEMBLY pIAs IN 1869, EDWARD 7. UNDER
NIL, CLLRK.
March tx Weed Parsons 4 Co, engraving and
prin,ng in two colors s,52o diagrams AZ 80
cents each.
Here we see the advantage OF dealing with re-
spectable frm The price charged - only SIX TINES
greater than M Richardson paid 10 years before