three-fifths of a cent for folding, directing and
mailing each copy.
Mr. DAVIS, of Washington. It will cost
three hundred and sixty dollars besides the
postage.
Mr. NEGLEY. I understand that there will
be about two thousand copies delivered daily.
At that rate it would be infinitely cheaper for
the convention to retain its present folder,
and have them sent to members from this
point. The contract with the printer is that he
must deliver these debates herein Annapolis;
the convention is not bound to pay for their
transmission from Baltimore city to this place ;
that is the duty of the printer. It was con-
templated originally, I presume, that the
printing should be done here; at least the
contract was made with the printer in this
place, and of course this is the point where
these documents must be delivered. The con-
vention is not charged with any expense that
is consequent upon their transmission to this
place, and if two thousand copies daily are
to be printed, folded and distributed, it would
be cheaper for the convention to continue the
folder, who says he can do all that. That
would be only four dollars a day, instead of
twelve dollars. The present folder says he
can fold and send to members two thousand
copies a day.
Mr. PUGH. I understand we have only about
a thousand a day now,
Mr. TODD. There will be two forms a day
struck off after the convention adjourns.
Mr. DAVIS, of Charles. I will modify my
amendment, so as to strike out the words
"six dollars" and insert the words "four
dollars."
Mr. MILLER. I think if the debates are kept
up hereafter as they have been heretofore, we
shall want about three hundred dollars to pay
the secretary. I notice that the second vol-
ume of the debates has been commenced. There
were some forty-nine or fifty signatures in the
first volume, and there will probably be as
many in the second volume. Then at the rate
of six dollars a signature of a thousand cop-
ies, there would be paid to the secretary about
three hundred dollars. If we keep the folder
for seventy-five days, and pay him four dol-
lars a day, as we are now paying him, that
will take three hundred dollars, I do not sup-
pose the debates will all be printed short of
seventy-five days. Therefore, as a matter of
economy, it will make very little difference
whether we employ the secretary to do this
work at six dollars a thousand copies, or the
folder at four dollars a day.
Mr. CUSHING. If this amendment prevails.
and the printer requires three dollars a thou-
sand for folding, that will leave only a dol-
lar a thousand for directing and affixing the
stamps. No man would do that work for
that.
Mr. DAVIS, of Washington. I suppose the
gentleman who offered to do the folding for |
three dollars a thousand, expected to make
considerable profit. If the secretary under-
takes to do this work himself, be will have the
dollar a thousand, and aportion of that three
dollars as profit besides.
Mr. DAVIS, of Charles. The gentleman
from Baltimore city (Mr. Cushing) thinks
that a dollar a thousand is not remunera-
tion enough for directing these debates.—
Now the printers have a system of print-
ing the directions, as we all know from the
newspapers we receive) and can furnish them
to the secretary fur a mere trifle, and he
can get off from eight to ten thousand copies
a clay. He will not have to write the name of
every person on the wrapper, merely to paste
on the printed name. The cost of directing
will be a mere trifle.
The question was upon the motion of Mr.
DAVIS, of Charles, to strike out the words
"six dollars," and insert the words "four
dollars" in the substitute of Mr. GREENE.
The question being then taken, upon a di-
vision—ayes 42, noes not counted—the mo-
tion was agreed to.
Mr. NEGLEY moved to amend the substitute
bystriking out the word "secretary," and
inserting the word " folder."
The question being taken, the amendment
was rejected.
The question was then upon agreeing to the
substitute, as amended, which was as fol-
lows :
"Ordered, That the secretary be directed to
provide for the folding, and addressing and
mailing of that portion of the journal of the de-
bates of this convention, which shall not have
been delivered to the member? at its adjourn-
ment line die; and, as in full compensation
for such service, the president is hereby re-
quested to issue his certificates to the said sec-
retary, at the rate of four dollars for each
thousand copies of said journal thus folded,
addressed and mailed.' '
Upon this question Mr. TODD called for the
yeas and nays, and they were ordered.
The question was then taken, by yeas and
nays, and resulted—yeas 50, nays 21—as fol-
lows:
Yeas—Messrs, Goldsborough, President ;
Audoun, Baker, Barron, Belt, Billingsley,
Bond, Brooks, Chambers, Cunningham, Cush-
ing, Dail, Daniel, Davis, of Charles, Dent,
Duvall, Earle, Ecker, Farrow, Greene,
Hatch, Hebb, Hodson, Johnson, Jones, of Ce-
cil, Keefer, Kennard, King, Lansdale, Larsh,
Marbury, Markey, McComas, Mitchell, Miller,
Morgan, Negley, Parker, Pugh, Ridgely, Rus-
sel, Schley, Schlosser, Scott, Smith, of Dor-
chester, Sneary, Stirling, Stockbridge, Sykes,
Thomas—50.
Nays—Messrs. Abbott, Annan, Brown, Car-
ter, Davis, of Washington, Dellinger, Gallo-
way; Henkle, Hoffman, Hollyday, Hopper,
Horsey, Lee, Mullikin, Murray, Nyman, Pe-
ter, Purnell, Todd, Turner, Wilmer—21 |
