The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-11-20
THOSE PRINTING BILLS
Long Discussion by the House on Al
legged Excessive Charges.

The house went into committee
Of the whole Tuesday afternoon to
take up the much discussed-bill to pay
certain printers the sum therein
named" The sums named in the bill
were as follows; ST. Adams Messen-
ger company, $1,63S7O; Free Press
association, $1.2S3.SS; futile Co. of
Rutland. $S3235. The state auditor
refused to pay these bills upon adj
vice of the attorney general after an
alleged agreement had been revealed
between seven printing firms which
proposed the dividing up of the state
work.
Mr. Williams of Newport took the
chair and the state auditor, the attor-
uey general, the tax commissioner
representatives of the firms affected
and Printing Commissioner Langley
We're summoned. After a long discus
sion IN which q dozen representatives
or more took part, the various state
officers summoned, w. b. Howe of
the Free Press and Egbert futile of
the futile Co., the object OF the com
mittee OF the whole were declared
accomplished and upon motion of Mr.
Fletcher of Cayendish. the bill was or
dered to lie until Commissioner Lang
ley made further recommendations to
the committee
The claims committee, to whom
was referred the bill recommended
that the following sums be paid: st
Adams Messenger Co., $1,503.43, Free
Press 81 ,233.SS the futile company
1892 Mr. Langley stood on the floor
for nearly an hour answering quest
ions and going into the details of the
various Jobs. He said that the diff
ference between the bills rendered
by the companies and what they
would have been had the jobs been
figured upon the present basis were,
Messenger Co. $l4745, Free Press Co.
Sl59.90, futile Co., $1,503.3S. Several
questions were asked to get compari
son of the bills, especially the job han
died. by the futile Co., the state Off
GERS reports, i'm the various years. II
was hard to get at il as the number of
uouao I'm tho volume tn dfffarout vaa nc
yoTiod and tho nunher nj volumes
furnished also varied.
Mr. futile went into long dis
| course TO show the increased cost of
getting the work done for which the
bill was rendered and described In
detail The cost of helm i'm his pIant
otc lie oIeo toId nf the dimcuIfiee
,,d..r Which be loborod as tbo result
~ INA Gro which deetroved mis- miami
Mr. DeRoer of Noutnelier finally
i,o,,irod into the nurnose of mis-
1ara.n,1pt b.tweop he nriptcrs
| III. Ma .,.,,,.io,,.l,. boon reod and
I ,rhicb sbo,..5 , continuation of m,
r,intnrs A. Jirido mn tba state ion.
/ ana ,,,. corn. ip copcsrr.s a Iitfle NOR,
/ gor r6at nov ,c,nollv did In consid
| .,,t,,r ion, ror biJdirp ag,iue, other
/ concoros f,, Other l1Le tfr HOW,
/ MI tbo Frae Pros stated that tbf
.orne,,,.g, ,c.e tho raeuit off a meet
| mo- of tb. .rriatsr- ,o come fo som,
..,.,.,. .,,r.,.l., tb.,. would mon sll loef
p,n,.y So. said that fbay had cot d,
/ tb. ,cirt ,rbers one firm, would under
liza opotber usf for connections
and las. none, ou IL Each concern
bod.a certain bride I'M holding out
and did mot desire ro do ANYTHING m
fu nm pof together Finally they look
ad INFO the nrirns of printing I'M Other
New ENGLAND states and look the low
ast one of the bunch and made theh
.goIe according to lh3t He said thai
me FREQ Press he'd never robbed Nh,
ststs and that ID vos NOT the uurpost
off tbe combination to rob. but simpl,
to eet "a fair price.
Finally TO hiring the matter 10 8
head Mir DeRoer asked Mr. Langley
/ If he considered the sums named in
the min am honest basis ON which Il
settle and he stated that ne did not
lie was tben asked If he could figure
ont some sum that I'm his opipion
would rapresent am honest hill for Inc
vork rendered and he stated that he
believed mai nv Going over the mat
tor vim Mr. Tnttie he Thought h,
could and that n fair settlement would