New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-19
THE STATE PRINTING.

THE PROFITS OF THE BUSINESS ENORMOUS
SUNS PAID FOR THE woRK-H0W WEED AND
PARSONS MANAGE THE WORK AND GET
THEIR PAY-KICKING AGAINST INNEsrlGA-
HON.
PROM THE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT or TIE TRlBUERl
ALBANY, Jan. 19.-lf there is any one sub
feet that needs investigation by the present Legislature
II is that OF the State printing. Exactly what the State
paws for printing II Is difficult II not impossible to ind
out from the Controllers report. What with contracts
and extra work. and special provisions In the supply BILL
and Jobs in the gift OF he clerks OF the Senate aud AS
eembly, the accounts are jnbed up aud mixed To-
eether that one may search In vain for defue infona
ton The following is a sample OF the way things are
presented by tho Controller In his detailed account OF
the expenditures OF the State On pages 90 and 81 OF
that report there appear sundry amounts
paid Weed, Parsons d Co., The ArguS Com
pauy, and Charles Van Benthuysen Son FOR
printing ordered by the LEGISLATURE footing up sO2i 3d.
On page o. under the head OF Printing for the state,
viii be found the further Of sJ6532 &c. In one iten
for legislative printing, over and above the rouhd
s.! 600 first mentioned. Another item is Sesc paid
Weed Parsons Co., "to liqidate the deductions made
by the State Printers In their account for extra compo
son stereotyping &c" These, with the other items
under tho head of State printing, make total OF
2os23 49, But in addition to the sums already named
we find on page A. these three items: Legislative
Manual s25,559 TO- Clerks and CroswePs Manual, LOO
copies 400 Doth big swindesl Civil List 1870 5000
The aggregate of these is s3959 10, which, added
10 those previously mentioned makes s352s2 &c. HOW
near this comes to the full amount paid for printing by
all the departments there Is no way OF tenlng Dut Is
not probable that the total falls below 100000
The State OF Massachusetts, issues set Of public doeu-
nepts which are greatly superior, both In their matter
and style OF execution, TO those published mere
Among other pieces of information 10 be onhd IN 'he
Massachusetts documents is a minute and carefully d.
gosted account OF the expenditures OF the Common
wealth. from which appears that the printing Tor the
Senate cost 49, the printing for the House OF ep
reseptatves 32 and that for the state sOOSo 49,
making the total cost Of public printing sSS5@ 40
Any member OF Legislature who wants
to zee what Massachusetts got for TINS sum
may satisfy himself by stepping into the state Library
and examining the documents, which he VIII ma IN
every detail OF their execution superior to those when
cost NewYork much dearer 1t is not probable that
the printers work for the Commonwealth OF massa-
cusetts the habit Of employing officers OF the Leg
ature especially charged with the duty Of protecting
neTests OF the State against exorbtant demands W
do their proofreadlng at commission on ths aIhou.o
paid from the public Treasury Nethsf " " I'M
a great prnting house and a clerk OF the SenhIe
had confessed to such an arrangement MAJ
OF Massachusetts would let ts hours 60 ~ wlthCne
tutng an inquiry. And yet Mr. d. b. Hi OF CneInung'
for reminding the honorable Assembly, TINS altrhVVu,
OF this scandaous transaction was savage iepheu ~
MI Alvord of Syracuse and Mr.. Smith OF AiD.ny ,n9t
occupy ing the chair the timej for making
OF the Putations OF distinguished CITIZENS Oh npay
and syracuse There are those here who mean Reform
who say, Let Mr. Terwiliger and the Messrs farsons
and this Legislature look 10 their own repulaons' ao
II lie at their own hands their good na % sours
| have passed, however, a movement viii have TAKEN
shape 10 wake the Legislature from It's letharsy -,
average moral sensi6ty has read the aldav,s o.
Oracle Parsons and TerwilgeT, that neiher " e y
state And this opinion IS freely expressed ny honeht
Iep here oi every stripe OF political cpiiNon'