The Washington herald., 1908-05-10
House Committee Reopens
Investigation.
RAYNOR, OF AUDIT SYSTEM, UP
General Manager of Concern Which
Cost Printery s1,00O Week on
Stand-COmmittee Seeks Relations
Between stislings ad Concern.
Strange Letter Put In Record.

Printing Office, and former Public Printe
Charles A. Stillngs, the House Commit
tee on Printing yesterday reopened the in
yestigation which resulted in the resigna
ton Of stiliings several months ago.
Willett NJ. Raynor. general manager o
The Audit System, and active head of it
operations in the Government Printing
ONCE, appeared before the committee an,
was subjected TO a long cross-examinatioi
By Chairman Landis. Representative Per
kins, and Representative Finley
From the testimony Of Raynor the com
mittee believes that it has more clearly
established the relations between Tn,
Audit System. the Suffolk Distributing
Company, the Audit System Supplies Com
pany, and perhaps other concerns whiel
f1ocked about 81 Duane street, New York
A letter signed by Raynor. which wai
found in his desk al the Government
Printing Office. after The Audit System
had been thrown out. was placed in the
record by the committee. II shows that
between Raynor and J. F. Handy. presi-
dent OF the Suffolk Distributing Company
there existed some sort Of an understand
ing regarding bids for government work.
No Date Il Set.
The committee has not decided when Il
will take up the hearings again. but it is
the intention 70 gather up all the loose
ends disclosed at the first investigation
and run them down, If possible.
Chairman lands led Raynor back and
forth over the period before and after he
had entered into a contract with suHings
TO put in The Audit System in the Gov
ernment Printing Office. Particularly did
Dir. lands inquire into the number OF
clerks added to The Audit Systems force
after IL secured an additional contract
from Stillings to make a complete inven-
tory Of the printery.
When this contract for the inventory
was signed, The Audit System was to get
TIE additional sum OF $3.50 a week II
was already getting 500 so that under the
new agreement it received the slight sum
OF $3.50 per week.
Raynor said that the system before the
signing Of this remunerative contract was
employing somewhere around six men.
maybe more, maybe less. He said that
he didn't know how many more men were
taken on after the new contract was en-
tered into. He said he wouldn't care 10
say whether IL was one man or two or
fourteen. He said that whatever the con-
tract called for had been given.
Made In april, 1907.
The contract including the slight price
for the inventory work was entered upon
April Is, 1907 Raynor said that he had.
even before that time. done some in
ventory work for the Government Print
Ing Office. rs said that employees of the
in the printery gathered up
the information and The Audit system
did the rest making the analytical de-
duetions which were desired by the Pub
lie Printer for a complete understanding
Of his own Office
Chairman Lands wanted 10 know ex-
aetly how much additional expense had
to The Audit System when II
go, this modest stipend of $3.50 a week
more for taking an inventory part of
which Raynor had admitted had been
worked out by government employees.
was made that his concerns pay roll be
produced. so that the committee might
see exactly how much this additional ex-
pense to the system had been. Ravnor's
attorney. r. Golden Donaldson. objected
Later, however, il was agreed
that Raynor should show the committee
the pay roll in so far as the Washington
end of The Audit System was concerned.
blanks and checks and counter checks
helped the government IN getting out the
work at the Government Printing Office
He said that through It the exact cost of
every piece Of work could be ascertained.
4 check kept on each employe. and the
Public Printer could take up lost mo-
.ion."
Where Ii Was Perfected
He was asked where he had installed
his system previous to his coming to
Washington, and said that he had per
,ected it while doing some work for the
Winthrop Press. Chairman Lands want
ID to know If he had really taken his
IDEAS of a system from the Winthrop
Press. Raynor denied this, but said that
ne had perfected his system while there
He said that he had also installed his
system in the J. w. Pratt Company.
Asked concerning the number of en-
7loyes it took 10 find the 'Iost motion"
or the J. w. Pratt Company, Raynor
aid that he believed there had been four.
he received about 5000 for a whole
ears work for that concern. This is
n contrast with the 500 to 8, $50 a week
hat he received from the Government
Printing once, and. although the COM
nittee didn't say, this was obviously the
ntent of the question.
Raynor was asked If he knew Stillings
'efore he secured the contract for the
uditing OF the Government Printing Off
&c. He said that he had seen the ousted
public Printer at the printers board of
rade In New York. At the time ne Ray
og) was doing some work for this board |
( trade. and Stillings, ne believed, was
IS secretary. This was before Stillings /
Tas made Public Printer.
After Stillings became Public Printer he /
ent for Raynor. When the latter came /
D Washington they talked over the |
uestion OF installing The Audit System /
J the Government Printing Office Later /
he contract was made Stiliings. Raynor. /
nd Deputy Public Printer Brian being /
resent.
As 10 StiIIinEs.
At that time witness did not think Still
ngs had any connection with the Print
rs Board of Trade, He also averred
nat J. F. Handy. president Of the suf-
Dix Distributing Company-one of the
TRANCE bedfellows of The Audit System
was at that time at the head OF the
oard Of trade.
During the course OF the testimony,
ttorney Donaldson took occasion TO in
,rm the committee that the government
i'll owes The Audit System some 5000
. $4,000. which the latter cannot col
ct. apparently. The committee was also
Always the Same
Tha~nsS