Excerpt from The Race Problem in the South But I confess that I hardly expected to see a convicted and par domed criminal representing my State as a member of Congress. The committee go on to show the amount expended in bribes to secure the passage of appropriations for the public printing, and the testimony adduced proves that this was Various interesting exhibits are given, sustaining the grave charges of peculation made by the committee, but these are too voluminous to be embodied in this paper. A summary, however, of some of these is given to show the extent of the frauds committed. Under negro rule, from 1868 to 1876, the public printing cost total cost from 1790 to 1868, showing an excess of cost for printing, durin g eight years of Republican administration, over the seventy-eight previous years, of Excess of cost of printing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.