The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-01-21
HOUSE REPORT IN DETAIL.
Printing Committee Instructed to
Make nm Investig ntien of the
State Printing Office.

Special Dispatch TO the st-Iate.lgencsr.
OILY MPfA, Jan. ao.-Soms interesting
facts concerning tho state printing office
and rs administration by the present In
eumbent, fswln Hicks. are likely 10 be pre-
sentsd to the house by ths committee en-
printing and supplies. C'oT piaints CON
eernlng the quality OF the supplies furnish
al the legislature by the state printer ard
the governors reference to the excessive
cost % the state printing under the yres-
ent regime have brought the printing office
into notoriety which must he anything
but agreeabls 70 Afr. Hicks.
This morning k.ngsbury Of Chehalls Of
fersi thu following resolution:
Whereas. The expenses OF the state 81
the printing department ara out If All pro,
portion 10 those Of the other departing ants.
therefore. be IL
Resolved That the committee on print
ing and supplies be requested % thorough
y Investigate the whole suhiees with
view 10 curtslling expenses in that depart
ment. AMI report THAR findings 70 tais
house ia the form of 6 bill"
This resolution was taken up and pase ea
by the house without a dissenting Saice.
It's passage WAS had simply for the pur-
pose Of giving the committee en- psintiag
ana supplies formal Instructions ~ iDves-
tiFats The workings of RE state printing
cffice for - nsaDy complaints had veacr.
90 the supplies furnished the house that
actiou bee.ssUs, necessary.
Under the Law which PRINTER Hicks had
passed by tas last legislature hg nss
practical monopoly 0f the ptlrr3sas.. astd
dsstTihaEt3en ~ stationery Ter BANK forms
ARD hiaak books. as wei ~ fuk rpueisaEe.
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