The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-12

each year the auditor reporting certain
amount psid for publishing the registra-
ton report. When then did the break
originate so that two reports we're paid for
in 1876? 1t may be that there was such
break somewhere and at some time, but
we submit that the figures, taken as they
are from the annual reports of the auditor,
don't show It,
We have made no charge Of corruption
in this MISTER Of printing and stationery,
but we assert and are prepared to prove,
if committee Of the general assembly de-
sircs it-tlfat a certain publisher stated that
he had been approached by state officer
on the subject OF printing contract and
that, On his refusal to come to terms, the
contract was let to parties who the officer
said had offered him ten per cent. commits
sion. We further say that it is reported
that this same publisher confessed" at a
time when of all others it is to be presumed
he would speak the truth, that he had de-
frauded the state in the matter of printing,
and that the other printers in the state
were doing the same thing. If desired, we
can and will furnish a committee Of the
general assembly with the name of the per-
son to whom the alleged confession" Is
said 10 have been made. We further state,
and are prepared to prove it, that "sealed
"bids" made by one party have found
who hal a liza opff nh Rpd te Of other parties
that thereupon new proposal, were made,
and the contract let on such new proposals.
We do charge that there has been extra.
vagance in this matter, and the mere fact
that S (2,035 39 was raid for legislative
printing and stationery in 1875, and only
| 81 32l.09 in 1S6l-the sessions of the gen.
eral assembly being of the same length OF
both yeare, and the number of members
being the same--proves it. We further
charge that IN the matter of printing the re.
ports of the several state officers there has
been extfavagance-unless you would pre-
fer to call 1t by the ugly name of. "collu
sion or "fraud." This can be seen by ar
examination of the printed reports. Take
those of 1866 and 1876 for instance
The paper for the latter year is inferior il
quality and of much less weight, while thu
matter is ''spread" over great deal more
surface. In the matter of abstracts o.
county clerks orders, for instance, in 1861
there are thir'y-six items to the page, Will,
in 1876, where you can find full page, there
are only twenty-nine, or nearly one-quartel
less; ia the abstract of auditors orders il
1866, full Page averages thirty items o.
more, in 1876 only half as many; tn,
names of eighty.five convicts in the stat,
prison only occupy two pages in 1866
while it takes four pages in 1876 for tn,
names of one hundred and seventeen; tel
pages then sufllce1 for the CLERKS &C
counts, while fourteen pages are required
for precisely the same items now; and 8,
with the report all the way through Ant
yet for this inferior paper and "spread" il
printing, we are paying much more thar
a better quality of paper and more com
pact style of printing would cost.
These, it may be said, are small matters
but straws show which way the win,
blows. We care not whether you cal
these things "eXtravagance, "collusion,
or fraud" they are all wrong and need t
be remedicd. Without curtailing the mum
Der of printed reports, without cutting GU
a word of matter, there can be q saving o
one-third made on the expenses of 1875. !
it not worth the while of the general as
sembly to see that this saving is made