Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-12-24
PUBLIC PRINTING.
What it Costs-Increase in Work-Rsport
Of John Defrees.

What Costs-lncreasei IN n"ork-heport
Of John Defrees.
WAsHISGToN, December 23-John ID.
Defrees, public printer, in bis annual re.
port shows the actual expenditures on
account OF printing, binding, engraving,
lithographing, &c, for the Government
of the United States for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1850, a. asexecuted at the
Government Printing Office, amounted
to S2,034,750. Value Of stock on hand
at the end OF the fiscal year, S34, 79S.
During the second session OF the Forty.
sixth Congress there were printed for
the Senate l,6i9 bills and joint resolu-
tions, 2l6 executive documents, lOl mis-
cellaneous documents, 725 reports
OF commissioners, IL resolu-
tions and five confidential
documents. For the House there were
printed 3.S0S ails and joint resolutions,
30 executive documents, A. miscel.
laneous documents, Q resolutions, aDd
l,79S reports of committees. During the
year there was received from sales OF
documents, records. waste paper, ETC.,
$l55, 5,i03, which has been deposited in
the treasury.
Regarding the enlargement OF the
building Mr. Deirees says:
The enormous increase OF the public
printing and binding is such as To re-
Quire an enlargement OF the building
in which the work is done. There
is not half room enough to
store the printed matter rs the printing
progresses. Fifty thousand copies OF
the last annual report OF the Commits
soner OF Agriculture have been printed,
but for the want of storage the printing
OF the remaining two hundred and fifty
thousand Icopies has been suspended
until the edition OF fifty thousand now
printed can be bound and delivered.
Other public documents are delayed for
the same reason. AS an evidence OF the
increase OF work in this office, the num-
Der OF blanks printed during the tiscalyear
ending June 30. 1879, exceed those print.
ell during the previous year by 3O,Sj4..
933, and the blank books by 26.5ll, and
the increase OF blanks printed during the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1880. over
those printed in - is ~, $50, and OF
blank hooks 9i,l05. The increase OF
work during the first quarter OF the
present fiscal year il shown by requisi-
tions from the executive department to
exceed that OF the same period last year
by - per cent.
The attention OF Congress is again
called To- the bound and unbound vol
umes OF the Congressional Globe pur-
chased several ears ago by Congress,
which were found to be odd numbers,
there being but two full sets, and entirely
worthless, except for waste paper, un.
ios-, "ij:.:---i --i""ea ,are printed TO
make complete sets. In this cohtetti6n
Defrees submits, for the consideration
CT Congress, that should it be deter.
mined now to direct sufficient number
OF volumes to b. printed to make n make
a specified number Of sets, then TO au.
thorize the sale of the odd volumes,
bound and unbound, at public auction
TO the highest bidder rs waste paper,
and the proceeds thereof to be covered
into the treasury. A statement is given
showing the cost OF printing and bind
iny a sufficient number OF volumes TO
complete sets OF one and two thousand,
which will be Sl49,7Sl.