Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-07-03

nal and ought to be punished severely. 1t
is not business but malfeasance in Office OF
the worst kind. Very accommodating
these conspirators against free ballot and
a fair count were with the peoples money,
even going so far as to rob the Free High
School appropriation to accommodate the
State Binder,!
In order now to show by an
other good and competent witness
how much work Cameron had
done on the Appendix to the Ag-
ricultural Report. when he got the
accommodation of $1,000 for this job. we
copy from the testimony of Mr. S. l..
Boardman as given before the Investigat-
ing Committee. Mr.. Boardman appeared
before the committee March 8. 1880. and
was sworn and examined. Mr.. Board
man had understood, like the public in
general, that the printing of the Agricul-
tural Reports was abolished by the legis-
lature of 1879. But in the latter half of
September of that year he received an or
der from the Secretary of States office to
furnish copy to the printers for the APP
pendix to the Agricultural Report for
1878. We copy his testimony from the
point at which it commences in connec-
ton with this order.
SAMUEL l.. BOARDMAN's TESTIMONY.
Odd you consider the letter and com-
munication. what he said to you. an order
from the Secretary of States office?
Al did.
Q-That was in the latter half ofSeptem-
Der?
A.-Yes.
Q.-IIave you since then furnished to the
Public Printer of that year any or all of the
copy for the abstract or Appendix for the re-
port of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight!
Al have, all of it,
Q.-When did you furnish it?
A-Enough for the printers to commence on,
Immediately after the receipt of the order,
and copy which came in subsequently, at a
later date.
Q-Have you furnished any within the last
three months!
Al have.
Q-When did you furnish the last, or
completion?
Al cannot say definitely, but since JAN
uary.
Q-Have you ever since that time been be-
midland in furnishing whenever the Public
Printer wanted copy, or have you been large
ly ahead?
A-No. They have always had copy in
advance.
Q-What is the course when you furnish
cOpy,-tO whom is the proof returned for cor
rection?
Always to me,-the proof of my re-
port, always has been.
Cor course it goes through the printer
before it goes to the binder?
Ayes.
Q-On the thirty-frst day of December,
eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, the end
of the year, what portion of the copy that
you had furnished for the second part the
Abstract or Appendix for the Report of
eighteen hundred and seventv-eight, had
come back to you from the Public Printer?
A-But very little.
Q-UptO the present time, what portion of
this work has come back to you for correc-
ton, from the Public Printer?
A-So much,-what hold in my hand.
Q-IIow many forms, and how many pages
does that comprehend?
Alive forms l find some of the sheets
are gone.
Q-Eht lol HidhlIiS HOW IlldI1y pages
A-Making eighty pages.
Q-What proportion of that, in your ugd-
ment, had come back to you from the Public
Printer up to the first of January, eighteen
hundren and eighty?
A-Possibly three forms, making forty
eight pages.
'Q-Can the Public Binder do anything in
the way either of stitching or binding on
that work till it all comes into his hands from
the printer?
A-No, he can't stitch it or bind it /; he can
fold it.
Q-SO that the Public Binder cannot, up
to this date, have done any thing in the way
of stitching or binding upon the Abstract or
Appendix to the Report of eighteen hundred
and seventy-eight?
A-No. it is not possible.
Q-Of course he couldn't have done it on
the first of January?
A-No.
Q--What is the only thing the Public
Binder could do on those sheets till he got
them all in?
Ale could fold them from the fiat sheet
to the form of this hold in my hand.
Q-ls that matter of comparatively slight
labor?
Al should judge it was.
OFF he had had. up to the first of Janu-
AIRY, eighteen nunureu ana eighty, forty eight
pages. could it have taken many DAYS work
to have folded those?
Al should think not.
Q-So that really he had not entered into
any extent of the work of the second part,
the Appendix or Abstract of the Report of
eighteen hundred and seventy eight, or the
first day of January, eighteen hundred and
eighty?
Ale had not
Q-So far as the first part of that report of
that year goes. his letter of June discIoses
the condition that was in, so that BY both the
condition Of the whole work is shown?
Al think so, to any one that can under
stand work of this kind
MIR. Boardman's testimony shows that
only forty-eight pages of the Agricultural
Report had been printed, when Cameron
drew his $4,000 for binding it. Practically
nothing was done upon it by the Binder
There was neither bill, voucher nor work
to show for the $4,000 which passed into
Cameron's hand
VITAL STATISTICS. 1t is shown by the re-