The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-10
over again during the past two centuries. He
10 . man to awake sectional and ~internecine
feuds and differences.
THE A PRINTING.

Yesterday, In compliance with the re-
quest Of the state Printer, the Legislature
passed resolutions providing for a joint com
mittee to investigate tho accounts Of that
official, and pass upon them. This ID ex-
ceedingly gratifying to the State Printer and
biz associate proprietors of tho DEMOCRAT.
When tho charge Of ~dcfrauding the State
was first made, months ago, by a grand jury,
the State Printer promptly solicited the
Governor to appoint a tribunal to tnvest1-
gate the charges. The Governor held that
hc bad no authority TO appoint such o tri-
bunal. The State Printer then requested tho
Governor TO call the Printing Board together
and institute an Investigation. After confer
ence with the members Of the board In the
city the Governor informed the State Printer
that tho board had no judicial powers, and
could do nothing In the matter.
The courts were closed for the summer and
the State Printer was left powerless TO meet
the defamatory and damaging charges OIL
cially made against him. At the same time
the lottery organs Of this city and malevo-
lent tongues were busy In the circulation Of
the official ISLANDERS Of the grand jury.
More recently the majority Of another
grand jury have renewed these charges. and,
with q venom and malevolence which indi-
Gated that there was some object other than
justice In the report, this latter body in
tructed the district attorney to file infor-
nation against the State Printer. That Off
cial declined to do 20. Time and again the
State Printer has solicited, demanded, almost
pleaded for an investigation and inquiry.
There has been sufficient power In the laws Of
the State to defame and slander him, to put o
blemish upon his good name and TO strike
with nulllty forty-two thousand dollars worth
Of State warrants held by him and his asso-
ciates for work done and delivered 70 the State.
But nowhere In the large powers Of tho Ex-
~ecutive, or Of the Printing Board, or in tho
intricate and wonderful mazes Of tho law, us
e%xpounded In our courts, has there been dis
covered any means by which he could obtain
a hearing; convicted II guilty and e~xonerated
II innocent. OH wonderful 10 the justice In q
State which Is little else than the bound slave
Of q gambling monopoly
At length, however, an opportunity Is Of
fered the State Printer and his associates to
vindicate themselves. A Legislature fresh
from the people has taken up the matter, and
provided for the appointment Of d joint com
mittec. composed Of Democrats and Repub-
licans, to investigate these charges and per-
form that Justice either 10 The State or the
which the judicial and executive
machinery Of the government has been Inn
potent to render to the ono or the other.
The resolutions for a joint committee Of
Investigation have passed the Legislature.
committee. we presume. will be an
nouDced to-day. We have only one request
to make: that is, that the committees shall
hold It's meetings with open doors, hear all
testimony and read all papers In public, 80
that the press and. through the press, the peo-
pie. may hear fully all the facts In the case.
We were about to say that we demand this
but we have too much respect for any COM
OF the present House and Senate 10
make q demand upon II. We do, however. In
the public interest and In justice to ourselves,
earnestly request the committee to sit with
open doors.
And, In the mean time, It will be but justice
the public TO pay no heed to the SANDER
,us and cowardly publications daily made
the State Printer and the DEMocBAr.
u 10 ONiupuCcp WO uO II " hc5ltb 6 W Bay |
will prove, 1. That the State Printer did
,ver forty-lve thousand dollars worth OF
ordered by proper authority, under
he existing laws.
2. That he has received In cash from the
State, for his work, just one thousand nine
hundred dollars.
3. That. accepting the report OF the expert
appointed by the Attorney General to examine
he accusation Of over-charge, the State
'%rlnter's accounts are not seventy-flve dol
ars In excess OF the estimate OF the expert.
4. That there were differences Of opiuion as to
the statute, under which $4,000
worth OF tho printing was done, Is repealed
n not; and that the oplnion OF the Governor
the Attorney General Is that the statuteis
repealed. and hence that the work was
egally performed.
8. That, II the statute is repealed and the
work was Illegally performed, the State has
ost nothing. because the warrants represent
ng the whole years work OF the Printer, with
exception Of $1,000, have been rendered
worthless to him by the one-sided reports OF
he grand jury; the suit instituted against
he DEMOCRAT by tho Lottery Company, and
be failure Of the law officers Of the State TO
'ress the charges Of the grand jury to an is-
'ue; and. finally, that il anybody has been
It has been the State Printer and not
he State, the former having received but $1,000
or $4,000 worth Of printing ordered by the
tate officials.
THE BEAM IN THINE OWN EYE.
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In an editorial OF yesterday entitled "Where