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House at the opening session Of the 2sh Congress- would
nave heen to save $S6340 II the prices 1919 and


SeA ~ prices actually raid the Is per cent
reoucuon ana FLO 7s6 03 over 20 per cent reduction
such ss now in force The average annual saving
and above the saving 20 per cent reduction would
Tore be more than $4,000 There would be at least
BIO 700 simsrly saved on the Senate printing Then
taking into consideration the great dminuion which
would probably from the of the print
ing from the party press we very reasonably anticipate
item OF public expenditure. sc. Thus for instance
Document No 3 which comprises the Presidents annual
message and accompanying papers, usually makes an
aggregate o something under 500 pages. Allowing 770
pages 20 900 extra copies, IA number which is but
reasonable to expect in the present OF our foreign
Telsons) will yield, sfer striking of 20 per from
the prices of 1919, q clear profit OF iaOe 900 dol
lars The extra copies of the agricultural portion of the
Patent once Report ordered by both houses the last
session were about eighty thousand amounting to cost
Of more than fftyseven thousand dollars The terms
which we propose II in operation, would therefore have
saved in the printing Of that single document twenty
cesdn the annual compensation OF the President Of the
United States and yet had executed the work upon
the terms herein specified should have realized lu
cratlve profit besides


These are certainly strong views in the item OF


:. retrenchment and reform;' but we apprehend


they will have been presented to Congress too late
In the day The decision respecting the House
printing is, we take IT, irrevocably fixed tor party
AT prices not lower than 20 per cent reduction upon


the terms of 1919; and if that is found insufficient
TO satisfy the bene tcary, why, sir there is nething
easier than TO vote an extra douceur OF forty fifty
thousand dollars, IN the form of an Incidental item
IN the bill OF general appropriations


IL is useless 10 talk OF economy and practical
printers, and experience in Congressional work, if
these considerations are urged in opposition to the
party press and It's claims upon the party in the as
cendant. Our friends had better at once relinoush
the idea OF securing the public printing through rep
RESERVATIONS OF mere expediency and economy sp-
posed to the principle OF distributing the loaves TO
the faithful.