The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20

| An important reform has airead been ac.
com plished in the printing branch OF the
/ State service, which will save the people
| many thousand of dollars the present ses.
| sion. Profting 6y or exposures Of the q>ast.
committed at The last tt1O sessions 10 Ee1isZa-
t1e has easily diminished !:s orders for print
| ing documents at the corresponding peri
! Oh FOR these sessions, documents were being
sent up by the cart load by order of the
! Legislature, and thoUsaudswnich have been
| PAID for by the people, are even now living
vase in the CapitOl-their printing hav-
ing been ordered by the tens of thousand
as IN the case of the Governors lnnumera-
| bic Messages to crafty the vanity of the
Eminent Man or 10 foster partisan press.
These abuses are done away with and be-
sides several measures ara pending having
ior thelr object the reduction of the rates
In the senate bills have been introduced
with this view by Mr.. Packer (Radical) and
Mr. Duncan (Democrat) and n resolution
has passed both houses without onposition
to appoint joint special committee to in
thereon.
In the House, the Judiciary COMMITTEE
nave agreed to report a bill and we sunpose
1t will be presented without delay,
An these indications Go:eboTe speedy
action on the subject, by concurrence or
both parties. The Radicals cannot rec.,sa
10 Follow the suggestion after Gov. Powers
alter repeated admissions that the nrrsent
rates are "exorbitant;" and Lhe Democrats
anu conservative sJe committed by all their
PSedgeS and ;AetT anoaiying record 10 effect re-
tor'9' "~t only IN this 6m IN every matter.
with the exhibition of this disposition on
ooth Sues there i nothing in the way Of a
satisfactory adjustment of :he gIestion
1872. &c" 20
These extracts from the CLARION will
snow what 1t said and what it did and what
the Democratic members stood prepared to
DO during the session of 1872, after the ar
rangement which had been advised and rat
lhed, was entered upon. And now for the
result
Cost of printing in 1871 ..........s I27.s4s
cost OF printing in 1872 .......... 50 79l
Reduction. Observation-Disclosures. 5s.O57
This saving to the Taxpayers in a single
branch OF the service, where the opportuni-
Ties for reform were no greater than in the
other departments, were attributable to the |
exposures which had been made by the
CLARIoN,and to the arrangement which was |
preoIcated on the basis of reducing prices.
Inc above extract, quoted from the files of |
Ihe paper and the figures extracted from |
the Official reports will show the fidelity |
OIL our labors and the results which have at |
tended them. While we have claimed he |
same right of the lawyer, the physician, the 4
mechanic, or any other protest. on, to en-
ploy as we choose our good will, material
aqd capital In the prosecution of our bust
ness, there has never been an hour since
ls'o' that we have relaxed our energies in
he cause OF Reform. The needle has NOT
oeen more true to the pole than we have
oeen to that cause under all circumstances.
we never can be, ana RsVer nope to be, in
leraAitsea Ia peeuDiary point of view, for
he capital and labor that we have expend-
"a without money and without price i'm the
PREPARATION and circulation of documents in
he long night of Radical misruIe, exposing
he abuses which the people OF Mississippi
unereds ard no pecunlary indemnity could
hord us the same unalloyed satisfaction as
hat which We have derived from the con-
of our unwearied labOrs in that
'ehait and the results that nave followed,