Mr. ANTHONY. By the original contract, or at least the contract that existed when I 1st became connected with the public printing, the publishers of the Globe were entitled to deliver to each new member of Congress the back numbers of the Globe from the beginning of the publication, and they were also entitled to the allowance of one cent for every 5 pages exceeding 3,000 pages for the long session and 1500 pages for the short session, including the indexes and laws in the Globe. Congress, however, failed to make the necessary appropriations to carry out these 2 provisions, and at the same time the expense of the publication increased enormously, and the publisher of the Globe stated to me and to many other Senators that it was impossible for him to continue the publication at the price which Congress paid, although he was willing to go on with it at what he always held to be the contract price. He held that these 2 provisions for the supplying of the back numbers of the Globe and the additional compensation when the whole volume exceeded 3,000 pages for the long session and 1500 for the short, were part of the original contract; and he also said that Congress was equitably bound to pay him the money for the time it had refused to make the appropriation. By the act approved July 4, 1864, these 2 provisions were restored. I thought at the time that the publishers of the Globe were entitled to additional compensation. Certainly if anything like a fair price had been paid in the beginning they were entitled to a very considerable addition, because there was an enormous increase in the expenses of publication. Paper was more than double, and has been 3 times the original price, and everything else was at least double. But I did not like that provision of paying one cent for every 5 pages, for no one knew how much it came to. It was a good deal like the sum we used to have in Dabolfs Arithmetic about buying a horse, and paying one cent for the 1st nail in his shoe, 2 for the 2nd, and going on in arithmetical or geometrical progression.