The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-10-30
Burlington, VI, June 27, 1904.
The Waterman Co..
Mnntpelier, VT.


The Waterman Co..
Montpelier, Vt.
Dear Sir. Enclosed find copy of agree
ment entered into by the following
printers at meeting held in Montpelier,
June goth: Tuttle Co; Free Press As.
sociation; st. Albans Messenger; Watch
man Co.: Argus & Patriot Co.; Ii. +.
Parker; The Caledonian.
IL is agreed that none OF these print
ers will bid except on the items assigned
to himself, and that in no case win he
bid at a higher scale than 40 cts. for
plain and so cts. for double price com
position, $3.50 for the first thousand of
los with Sl.00 for each additional thou
sand impressions; nor will he increase
the scale Of binding from prices on his
bid Of two years previous. except that
the rate for extra signatures, If any,
shall be II cent; but he will in all cases
figure the price Of paper to the state at
cts. per pound for No. ! machine finish,
and 5&i cts per pound for the grade Of
paper which the state itself has been
furnishing for the last four years; half
tone cuts, Is cts. a square inch; au-
thors changes 40 cts an hour.
It is further agreed that on House
and Senate bills that the Watchman
and Argus will not bid more than 70
cts. a page, and that all printers seeur-
ing state printing under this agreement,
the Watehman and Argus, will
be assessed pro rata in proportion to
work done to make up the difference
between Is and 95 cts, a page on House
and Senate bills. The Messenger Co,
will also be assessed on the r. II. Com.
report which IL is now working on. and
il is understood that during the next
two years the other printers will not
compete with the Messenger for this
work.
The Work win be assigned as follows:
The Watchman, Senate bills and Legis
lative Manual,
Argus g. Patriot, House bills, state
geologist report
III. Il, Parker, inventory blanks, supt.
Of education report. Parker to pay
Ropes 10 cts. for plain and 20 cts. for
tabular on ed, report.l
The Caledonian, hbary com. report and
insurance com.
The Messenger, House and Senate
journals, r. r. Com. report. They to
pay Atkins SIS in addition to assessment
on Fl. and S. bills.)
The Free Press, session laws and ag-
ricultural reports.
The Tuttle Co., state officers reports,
school registers and grand list.
Yours very truly,
(Signedl w b. Howe, Secretary.
While this paper refers to 1904, it is
claimed there was a similar understand
ing in 1906, and the printers assert it
was to protect rather than for the pur-
pose of iniuring the state, and that straw
bids were submitted on printing because
no one state office could handle alt-the
state work and get it out on time. On
the other hand there is this to say;
The Tuttle CO., which charged $6,353l5
for printing the public documents in
1906 did the same work in 1908 for
g, ,36002, or almost a third less.
Failing to secure settlement from
he auditor, the printers affected have
iow taken their case to the legislature.
Senate Does Juggling Act.
The Senate to-day did some juggling
with House bill l20 which allows voting
It the State House on election day, next
tuesday. On Thursday the House re
used to concur in the joint resolution |
'manating from the Senate, which pro-
rided for an adjournment to-day until |
wednesday morning. The House put it. |
elf on record a second time in favor |
Il coming pack on Monday. and also ad |
7aneed TO third reading the bin allow |
ne legislators and employees at the State
Iouse to vote here. This morning in /
he House this voting bill was passed (
md came into the Senate
1t was evident that the Senate wanted /
o show the House it knew a thing or
wo and knew that by killing this bill /
he vote of the House to come back /
Monday would really be defeated, for Of /
curse the legislators would not sacrifice /
heir privilege Of voting by being here /
or Mondays business.
So when Senator Lewis Of Lamoille I
-oted a suspension of rules to pass the 4
,ill before adjournment. this move was
opposed by Senators Finn Of Windsor
nd Gibson of Windham. They intimat-