The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-15
Voorhees, Committee Shows
How a Country Editor
Got Rich on State
Money.
FRAUDS IN THE ELECTRIC PLANT
rbin Says That Twenty-Five
/ Cent for Someone Was
kAdded to Each Bill.
E,eciol 10 the Jerseu City Nelrs.

If was Yesterday over the disclo-
made by the voorhees, Committee.
greater part of this no doubt was
4 by the sweeping charge which
e Gumrnere delivered to the Grand
vesterday morning The local even
ine, naners printed the charge in full, and
ali Yesterday afternoon and evening men
stood about corners discussing the
Judges structures and specializing as TO
whom the judicial lightning would strike.
The general impression is that stormy
times are ahead for every one VINO mas
been in the least smirched by the COM
mittee's disclosures. The Grand Jury Is
looked upon as an indicting jury. The
Rev. Thomas Hanlon, d. d., Prlnclpai
of the Pennington Seminary, who mas
been suffering for years from an acute
attack of Democratphobia, a jealous
leader in the Law and Order League
which waged such a. vigorous and sue
cessful warfare upon the race track
laws. and a firm believer in the gen.
eral political depravity of everyone VINO
/has filled an office in the State House
r for some years back, is prominent
member of the jury Another is Well
ing Rickel. late candidate for the Re-
publican lIayoralty nomination of Tren-
III.
Republican leaders of Trenton, sits near
him. The Others with one or two excep-
tions are all thrifty agriculturalists
from the farming districts, whose chief
recommendation to the position is their
steadfast loyalty to all things Republi-
can.
1t is such facts as these which lead
to the prevailing opinion that everyone
is to be indicted and obliged to stand
trial. But on the question of their ulti-
mate conviction opinion varied.
JOSEPH MARS DOWNFALL.
Another factor in Trenton's agitation
was the vivid searching light which
the committee threw upon Mr.. Joseph
L. Naar, the owner, publisher and os-
tensible editor of the True American.
OF late years Mr.. Naar has been posing
pure in social and political life, and de-
voting his peculiar genius to making
every one agree with HIM His methods
were a little reprehensible. but in the
cause of political and commercial mo-
rality no doubt exeusable. He is a man
entirely devoid of all those. instincts and
considerations which men in active life
generally entertain toward those with
whom they come in contact, and when
ever Mr.. Naar encountered sinner in
one of the State departments or munich
pal boards of Trenton who was so po-
GffcaiIy dishonest and corrupt as to en-
tertain the idea that there was ANOTHER
printing establishment capable of doing
the State or city printing as well as the
diateiy proceeded to convert him by
heaping upon him the most scurrilous
abuse and inyective his pen could dig
language. Mr.. Naar has also been a
most ardent defender of everyone whom
the committee has shown to have de-
Eoade apparent yesterday. In this way
Naar came. to be, perhaps: the, most
spised man in Trenton, although the
T. lr n q lan \ W
from openly expressing their contempt
But when it was, shown yesterday that
this public spirited citizen had been max
ing $4,000 to $4,000 a year out of the
State by means which Mr.. Corbin said
in his opinion rendered him. liable to
Naar could not help indulging in unholy
WHAT PRINTING. COSTS IN TREN-
After Mr.. Naaar had made an exhi7
bition of himself on the witness stand
yesterday, Mr.. Corbin placed Edwin
F'itzgeorge, an expert printer, upon the
stand.
How do job printers pay their men
week?'' asked Mr.. Corbin.
by the week and the wages paid are
$14 per week"
list of corporations. What did it cost
to print that book?"
-Four hundred and sixty-eight dollars
and seventeen cents"
What is a fair profit?"
..Thirty-three and one-th:rd per gent" :"
x hnndred and fSI' VI 1te dollars
and nineteen cents"
well, the State paid s1,74,.7 or 27
ed Mr.. Corbin. Look at this book of
1891. What is the actual cost of setting
the type with profit, of thirty-three
zone hundred and thirty-six dollars:
The State, paid 1851 for that book =
said Mr.. Corbin, Which is 2S3 per cent
bat this OF
sTwo hundred dollars,
s.or 251 per cent profit. Here is the an
nuaI list of 1892 What is it worth on
the same basis?"
Three hundred and ninety-eig1t dol
lars and eighty-six cents.
For this said Mr.. Corbin, "The State
paid the sum of s1.s4os5. or ca Mar, Day
Take this pamphlet of 1893. What did
Three hundred and twenty-four dol
THE State paid ss5l:s7," intsrjscteas
290 pages, containing list of corpor-
atoms form 1916 to 7Ssl; what would it
Zone thousand, two hundred and fifty
thirty-three and one-thsrd per cent.
profit would make the amount s1,67960 :"
The State, paid S45s5, Or a profit Of
Mr.. MARS ExoRBITANT PROFITS.
Then summarizing, he said that for
those reports the State had paid a total
of So 397, and the actual cost of the work
was only S. 530.47, at fair profit, show
ing a percentage to the printer of 26S
per cent
At the afternoon session Mr.. Corbin
dat a previous smeeting laid be-
fore the committee the cost of the State
printing, and I will run over f IeW w years 5acs
In 1891 it was STA ,694; 1892. $17799S; 1893,
slS6, 1888; 1894, s19l. S35. I furthermore stat
ed that the printing in total would
amount to at least $500, 900; that is due to
the fact that the Secretary of State pays
many bills which do not appear upon the
Comptroller'S report
Senator SkirTn asked why it did not.
Mr.. Corbin said because he had expend-
ed the money irregularly, and if it was
allowed to extend there was no telling
where it would end. II think the remedy
lies with the Legislature which should
specify the duty of the officers. I have
in my hand a schedule showing Naar,
Day & Naar took between $4,000 and
Sc, 900 per year more than the contract
printers got"
Naar. Day & Naar.'' answered Mr..
why" continued the Senator from
Newark, in Essex alone we got 1000
copies of that law.' :.
@You need instruction over there"
calculated Senator DAILY.
you don't in Hudson, retorted Sem