Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-11-10
THE STATE PRINTING FRAUD.

For some time past the APPEAL has been
showing up tho inside Of the fraudulent award.
ing of the State printing contract for which
c. A. V. Putnam, tho State expert, is respon.
sible, but not until we published the bids side
by side thus making the rascality apparent to
the public, did Mr.. Putnam take the trouble
to make any explanation. ltappeared in yes
terday's Enterprise and is as follows:
EDITOR ENTzpPR1sE: As l have been the
subject of persistent misrepresentation in the
Carson APPEAL with regard to State printing
for month or two past, and is the subject is
one Of State interest, l beg space for brief
statement of facts. l have hesitated for long
time to make any statement whatever, for the
reason that knew that my critic knew moth
ing whatever Of the business he was crticlsing;
and, in answering him at all felt it beneath
my dignity. In fact, might use the language
of John Randolph when attacked by green
member of Congress: "Mr. Speaker - 1t
wrenchesme confoundedlyto kick at nothing"
So say now. In all the attacks made upon
me for allowing the bills of Marshall Robinson
and upon myself and the old Board of State
Printing Commissioners for awarding the con-
tract to Marshall Robinson, there never has
been word of truth in the APPEAL. That
paper contained in its Sundays issue what
purported to be the bid of the late Il. r.
Mighels for the State printing two years ago
That bid is bald forgery. No such bid, or
ANYTHING like it, ever came before the Board
of State Printing Commissioners That Board
was composed of jerry Schooling, W. w. Ho-
bart and J. d. Minor. Hobart and School
ing are members el ect Of the State Senate.
They will agree with me that this pretended
bid of n. r. Mighels is fabrication-an I'M
mitigated falsehood As all the ether charges
of the APPEAL, from Alpha to omega, are OF
like character, dismiss the subject and the dis
graceful author of them. c. A. v. PUTNAM,
State Printing Expert.
Yesterday morning the editor of the AP-
PEAL called at the State Controller 8 Office, and
with Mr.. Daugherty, the Deputy Controller,
compared the bids as printed in the APPEAL
with the original bids which had been locked
up in the vault OF. the Controllers office ever
since the printing. contract was awarded, Ev-
cry figure and specification published in the
APPEAL was verified by the record except
where abreviations had been used to simplify
the bids. In order to show the character of
Mr.. Putman's defense, We herewith print GER
tifed copies Of thetw bids verbatim. ct lierotim
that Mr.. Putnam may no longer suffer the
inconvenience of kicking at nothing" The
following are the bids which we ask to be
compared with the bids published in the Ar
PEAL of Sunday morning.
MIcHELs's ED.
CARoN CRY, Nevada, Nov 9th, 1873.
To the Board of State Printing Commission
ers of the State of Nevada:
As per advertisement requesting bids fer
State printing required to be done at Carson
City, for the two years commencing January
LIST, 1879, and ending January 1.., 1881, l sub
NIT the following propositions, namely:
Specification 1st, For printing bill work rs
per directions.
l bid, for composition per one thousand
ems, twenty-five (25) cents
Press work per taken Of two hundred and
fsrty impressions. fifty (5O cents.
For folding and stitching, one.twentieth Of
emo cent Il 2o) per page. s..
Specification 2. For blanks, roll calls,
headiass, receipts, Controllers orders on
Treasury, franks fer books and documents,
licenses, letter headings, endorsements and
all forms not otherwise specified. bid two
(2) dollars per thousand.
For all blanks and other printing required
by the Legislature or State officers. consist.
ing of rule Or figure work, or both,
bid: Figure work per one thousand ems,
eighty (sO) cents. Rule and figure work per
one thousand ems, one ~ dollar
Press work per token, fifty 900 cents.
Folding and stitching, one.twentieth 0-2U
Of one cent per page.
SPECIFICATION j. For all commissions, ton
QO) dollars per thousand .-.
Specification T. For all orders, proclanaa.
tions and advertisements required to be print
ed daily newspaper,
bid For the first insertion per square of
800 ems of nonpAriel type, thirty (3O) cents. |
Each subsequent insertion, twenty (2O) cents,
for the time such advertisement may be
ordered.
Respectfully submitted, Il
(sisned) HENRY r. MIGHELs.
OFFICE OF BOARD OF STATE PRINTING!
COMMISSIONERS,
Carson, Nevada, Nov. 8, 1880.
l, VIM. B. Dasgherty, Clerk of said Board
Of State Printing Commissioners, do hereby
certify that tho within and foregoing is full, |
true and correct copy Of the bid of Fl. r.
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