New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-03-24
The Globe Contract.

A New York Tribune Washington special
says:
The proprietors of the Congressional
f,Iob, have been issuing that valuable and
worthy publication, and serving it regu-
LARRY to congressman, ever since the fourth
of March, 1871, without authority of law
and, consequently, without dollar OF pay.
They did not make much effort tor re-
newal OF their contract, in the early part OF
this session, or much complaint aoout the
hardship of working so long without pay,
because they knew that the longer they
would be getting their old prices con
tiuued. About three weeks ago they
nropOsed TO the Joint committee on printing
to renew their expired contract. at the rate
paid during the last Congress. emitting
the reduplicated index, which has hereto
fore been printed in every oiume, and
giving but one index for the whole set of
Globes for each Congress, and deductlng on
this amount $50, 900 from the gross compen-
sation The Senate members Of the joint com
mittee agreed to this proposition, but the
House members did not, the chairman Mr..
Beatty, of Ohio being an earnest advocate
of some reforms that would lessen the cost
of the Globe, and believing the present to
be the best time to yet about 1t. On the first
of March the Senate passed bill directing
the congressional printer to contract with
klVeS q Daley IoI tuC PuuiiSdtiou VI luo
Globe for two years from March !. 1871, in
accordance with their offer to the Senate
members of the Printing Committee. To-
day Mr. Kelley made an effort to take the
bill from the Speakers table and pass it.
He got the rules suspended so as to bring it
before the House in spite of the vehement
protest of Mr.. Beatty, continued in the
midst of the deafening clatter of the Speak
er's hammer Tapping to call him to order
II IL o1x tha tf,af
the Globe proprietOrs had gone on with the
publication Of the debates for more than a
year, without pay, borrowing the money to
carry on the work. at high rates OF
interest; that the debt of the govern
ment to them was increasing at the
rate of moro than $1,000 day, and that
they ought to be paid, and had an equitable
claim to the same compensation they re-
ceived under their old contract. Mr.. Beatty,
in reply. made IA powerful attack upon the
Globe, abused and exposed the manner in
which it is perpetuated from Congress to
Congress. and all reform prevented. He
declared that Rives & Bailey made sl53.0n1
profit from their contract in the torty-irst
Congress- and that he would res On his seat
if he could not prove that they would make
$4,000 in'this Congress. If the bill should
pass renewing it; that their game'was TO go
on without a contract for half the Congress.
the House, to come in, pleading for sym
pathy as martyrs, and have bill rushed
through paying them what they wanted:
that their plan of emitting the reduplcated
indexes was a fraud. because they received
So, 900 for these indexes in the last Con
gress. and they only proposed to deduct
$4,000 for leaving them out; they meant to
pocket 1000. without doing dollars
worth OF work for il; that they claimed the
r.I,t 10 bn EIIn ,ca nd
bonus for giving it up, although It had
never been authorized. and had, in all. cost
the government more than SJOo.OOO,
lSO0O.Uo0 pages of useless index matter
having been printed in the last nine Con
crosses: that be had offered to pay them up
to March /. and they had refused; that lie
had offered to pass a bill. paying them
500, 600 on account, to meet their wants
until Congress could authorize a new con
tract and they had refused this: that they
had refused to allow him to verify their
statement of the costs of printing the Giobc,
and that they had made false statements in
an article published in the Globe of Satur-
day. Mr.. Kelley made no reply to these
charges, except to refer the House TO the
very article in the Globe which Mr., Beatty
had been attacking, as sufficient
answer to the latter's remarks. Mr..
Garfield demanded that the contract
proposed bv Riyes i Bailey. which
the bill directed should be accepted,
should be read before the House voted
away 100000 Nobody could or would
produce it, and Mr.. Kelley demanded the
previous question and stopped the debate.
1t was evident that the House had been
thoroughly canvassed for the bill, and that
large majority were pledged TO vote for
it. On ordering the previous question
which was the test vote, the yeas were lO2,
and the nays y. Nearly all the Democrats
voted yea. a circumstance which it would
! be hard to account for, in view OF their thor
ough opposition. this session. TO everything
savoring OF extravaganza or iobherv. We're
it not for the fact that the Globe proprietors
are themselves Democrats. Finding the
odds were too great against them to hope to
defeat the bill, and Mr.. Kelley refus ing to
permit any amendments to be offered.
Messrs Beatty, Dawes. Garfield Farms
worth and other Republicans led the mi
nority in tilibustering until dinner time
came, and the House consented to adjourn.