Show tiie the salt lake mail greeley writing from the south pass of 0 the rocky mountains says A word on the hie salt lake mail of the bap on vil which liell I 1 have ridden for thelast the last better belter at least sixteen are filled with large bound books main mainly y patent office reports I 1 ludge judge but all ail all them undoubtedly works ordered printed at the public cost cos your our cost readell by and now on their way to certain favored mormons cormons Mor mons and franked by proxy pub doc dc free J al bernaise Bern hise al 11 C 11 I 1 do riot not blame blaine mr r baor B for clutching his share of this public plit plunder a and n i distributing it to go as to hi increase crease his own popularity slid and im importance ce but I 1 do protest against this bui business of p printing binting books by mEole wholesale sale at the cost ot of the whole people for free but on to a art only it is is every ever way wrong andler and pernicious niclous ot of the per annum pak paid for carrying the salt lake mail nine te tenths I 1 la s absorbed in the ost cat of carrying these franked documents to people who contribute little or nothing to the support or of government in in any way la Is this fair each patent office report will have cost the treasury four or five dollars by the time it reaches its irs destination and will not be b valued bythe by the receiver at tw twenty enty five cents centi why should this business go on oil 1 why not reform it altogether let congress print whatever nhat eier are needed tor for its own information and leave the people to choose and buy for themselves I 1 have spent four days arid and five nights in close contact with the sharp edges of mr Bernhisel a I 1 pub doe doc have bave done my very ut utmost mosi to mae make them present a smooth or at least endurable surface at ai d I 1 a am di sure sur there is is no slumber to be extracted unless by reading them a es resort which no rational person would recommend for all practical purposes they might as well wel now that tile the printer has been paid for them be where I 1 heartily wish they were w ere in in the bottom of the sea aea |