The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1877-08-10
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pyt now sfayiag failcl p make 2
uccessful showing against any q the
,ther departments u the State Govern
ncnt allof which he las attacked the
,litor Of that paper ttiins in bis baaled
rage upon the State Printer and seeks
10 vent his spleen ii that direction.
The OrsYopiaa charges that Che pres
ent State Printer has violated the -aw
IN the Performance ofhis work, and that
The secretaryof State Il equally cnlpa-
bic in allowrgg the measurement and
paying the biifarfJJh these points we
haze only to Jay briefly, tbat # the State
Printer has violated the law himself,
and bondsmen are ancnable thereto,
and ho respectfully asks thc O'TJon'ai'
editor or any other interested citizen to
arrange an investigation at any time
And again, if the editor Of that
paper had been as enthusiastic IN
examining the record as he has been
| in manufacturing charges against the
State Printer he would have known
that for the last four years tho leglsla-
turo has taken this matter out Of the
hands Of the Secretary Of State BY ap.
pointing joint committee on printing
aud authorizing said committee TO en-
ploy q sworn expert to do The measure
ment. In 1874 the expert was he
publican, and in 1876 the expert was
Democrat! III both instances thes'
gentlemen performed their duty undel
their oath honestly and faithfully, ant
their measurement has been allowed
and warrants drawn in favor OF th'
Printer, because the Secretary Of State
even if he had differed (and it is under
stood that he does differ on some points
Of law) with the State Printer relative
to tho work performed, he was .neees
sarily compelled to obey the edicis o.
the Legislature and allow the measure
ment made by the expert appointed by
that body. In this connection, how
ever, it may be well to remark that the
State Printing for the past two years Is
not yet settled up, nor has the Secretary
of State audited and allowed the entire
claim presented by the Printer
We cannot ascribo any fair motive to
the Oyegoaian's attacks since it makes
wholesale onslanghts without exPlalAAI
tons That paper very well knows ttsls
until the present Printer came INTO
office the Legislature consiste@ Of only
GO members, whereas, for the past four
years, under the new apportionment,
there have been 90 members, or one
third of an increase in that body. That
paper also knows that the incidental
printing of the Legislature must natur-
ally accumulate with the increase
of membership, as also that all
sorts of Public Printing must increase
~
with the growth of our State and the
accumulation of business in all the pub
lie departments, Indeed, it may be a
violent assumption, but wc venture to
assert that even the Oregoniam's circula-
ton is now larger than it was in 1850,
when Portland was a little settlement,
and that the cost of running that con-
Germ is now about one hundred times
greater than it was at that time.
The Oregoaidn charges that the State
Printing is "a hogging business" and
that each Printer learns new tricks
from his predecessor, and therefore i'm
proves on the previous porcinc business
This is absolutely untrue, os the record
will show. For instance, from 1864 to
1866 (only two years. Henry L, Pit
took was State Printer, and drew war
rants to the amount of $20,l0l 10, be
sides his little job Of $4,000 for print.
ing that useless and now condemned
tl1mpery, Deady's Code making in all
over hirlycigAt thousand dollars in two
years, or nj the rate of sevcnty-siS
thousand dollars in four years
while the amount drawn by tht
present State Printer for tho past
four years will fall below twenty thous
and dollars Of that amount, with thre,
times the amount Of work performed
For instance the volume Of the Law
and Decisions printed by Pittock il
1864 made ll5 pages, while the sam
book printed by the present Printer i
: 1874 made l,OSS--aeaIy ten times q
much And in 1864 the Messages an
7 Documents printed BY Mr. Pittoc
: made less than 800 pages, while in 1877
(. printed by the present Printer the
6 amomtedtol, ,ls4pOges, noarlyfourtim'
+ as much, and indeed the latter volum
made II more pages than did the cod
printed by Pittock, for which the latte
received eightccn thousand dollar
When our readers are informed tina
; Mr. Pittock is the present proprietor {
the 0rrgoaiaa they will doubtless won
der, as we do, that hc has the inetiisbl
cheek to charge any Of his SUCCESSORS i
office with "hogging,"
Again, the laws and decisions unde
Mr. Pattorsons management, in 1870
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