The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-11

Mr.. Smith said he would vote for the
amendment because the south is taxed
| to help pay for the pensions of Union
: soldier veterans, and besides, the poor
old soldiers of. the south were poorer
! than the INDECENT heroes in the north.
As to the olive branch, it was extended
when arms were stacked and hands
clasped over the bloody chasIn. A fur
| tner reason advanced by Mr.. Smith
! was that he desired the south to have
a good opinion of Utah by the seati-
ment he hoped would be expressed by
the passage of the resolution, as
amended
Representative Stewart announced
| that he offered the resolution by re-
quest Of a constituent. A similar reso-
| luton had been adopted in the Indiana
legislature, and he was informed that
! its presentation in other legislatures
| had been accorded favorable considera-
| ton. He believed it would be only right
that deserving, but not disabled soldier
veterans should be given. the fullest
| opportunity to accept a pension if they
! desired the governments favor.
! The amendment was lost, only Repre-
sentatives Bennion, Fullmer. Hansen,
Iyers, Lapish, Larsen, Murdoch, O'Neil,
Parry and Smith voting for it.
The resolution as offered was then
! put upon its passage, but it was killed
/ by the following vote:
Ayes-Cummings Fisher, Fullmer,
Law, Robertson, Roylance, Stewart.
| Noes-Benni0n, Belts, Bywater Cal
lister, Clyde, Cook, Crosby, Farr, For
man, c. Z. Harris, Holmgren, Ivers,
Johnson, Lapish, Larsen, Mansfield,
McQuarrie. Miller, Murdoch. O'Neil,
Redd, Richards, Smith, Welch-24.
Paired-Hansen (yes), n. ]. Harris
| (no), absent.
Absent nd Mot Unfin Dr.ar1 -oII
/! Christianson Greenwood, Mrs. Horne,
Jackson, Lloyd, Parry, Robinson,
Shepard, Sorensor, Taylor, Wheel
, er-12.
NO "CINCH'' CONTRACT HERE.
the state has been mulcted for legis-
lative printing supplies, by way of Sc
quence to the alleged combination of
the Tribune, News and Star Printing
companies, in pursuance of a plan to
secure stiff prices, Chairman Smith, on
behalf of the special committee ap-
pointed to investigate the printing con-
tracts, submitted very significant re-
port.
After stating the prices for the sew
eral classes of printing bid and con-
( tracted for, as mentioned in The Her
aid last Saturday the report continues:
I'VE find that the state board of ex-
aminerS duly advertised for bids for
furnishing said printing, and awarded
/ the contracts TO the lowest bidder, the
Deseret News, Publishing company get
ting the contract for printing the de-
, partment reports, and the Tribune
Publishing company getting the con-
tract for printing the bills and journals
for each house. A,s
According to the secretary of states
estimate of the volume of printing
DOM which -iS hqSpd the nrinfincr
of two years ago, we find that the
News contract will amount to about
$4,000 and the Tribune contract to
about 1900.
The cost per page for printing our
bills is from $3.50 to $2.62, the difference
being whether they are bound or not.
The cost per page for printing our
journals, when completed, is $229. The
cost for printing our state reports is
$2.40 per page.
we submit that the actual cost of
! this printing to the firms (paying
union wages to printers) should not
exceed the following: Legislative bills,
per page, 80 Cents; permanent journals,
per page, $f,15; department reports.
per page, $1.10; making total actual
cost of about $4,000. We submit that
SO 1-3 per cent profit should be satisfac-
tory to the publishing firms, which
would make our printing bill $4,000 in
stead of $1,000 as under the contracts
in force
While we do not feel justified in
censuring the board of examiners (they
having advertised, as provided by law,
and having contracted with the lowest
bidders, still we feel that it was their
duty to have protected the state by
ascertaining the actual cost of the
printing, and, if necessary, should have
made further effort to get bids.
We 10 ricIo
consider the ACCESSIBILITY of creating
the office of state printer and purchas-
ing printing plant, that the state may
have this work done at cost
To make the Importance of the reve-
lations impress itself on the assembly,
Representative Smith said: THE print
ing contractors make a net profit of
SO 1-3 per cent on the states work, but
not content with that they formed a
pool and got q rakc-off from the state
of $1,000 besides
This is an important matter" re-
marked Representative Hansen, land
the serious allegations ought to be
looked into farther. 1 therefore move
that this report on printing be made
the special order for Monday at 2:30
p. m"
Representative n. ]. Harris suggested
that the report should be recommitted
to the special committee with instruc-
| lions TO segregate the recommendation
for the election of a state printer from
the other findings reported.
There are two ways" replied Mr..
Smith, himself an expert printer, ''of
arranging for more economical hand
ling of the states printing business
One is to provide for the appointment
of state printer and designate some
printing office where the work shall be
done under proper regulations, and the
other is elect the public printer and
equip a state printing Office
Mr.. Hansen's motion to make the
subject the special order for Monday
afternoon prevailed without a dissent
ing voice
RELIEF FOR IRON COUNTY.
AS a special order for the afternoon,
the house considered house bill No.