Mr. ANTHONY. The Senfrom Wisconsin has referred to the fact that at the last Congress this subject was entertained by the Senate and referred to the ComPrintg. I will state to the Senate what disposition that committee made of it. We addressed letters to the representatives of the Associated Press and to some of the leading newspapers to ascertain if they would take an official report of the proceedings of the Senate if furnished to them by our own reporters but they declined to do it. The ground which they stated was that it would place the toss in the power of the Senate, that they wished to have their own reports. I suppose one reason was an aprehension that the expense would be much heavier than their present arrangement. I suppose there is another reason. Some of the very large and exceedingly rich newspaperestablishments in NewYork are not particularly desirous that the report of the Associated Press shall be very Ion, so that it may be necessary for the public to had a more extended report in the special dispatches which a they can afford to pay for, and which the weaker papers cannot aford to pay for. But I think it is only justice to those who report the proceedings of the Senate to state that after this inquiry which we made the reports were very much improved. It is the object of the press of course, it is the object of any newspaperthat undertakes to print the proceedings of Congress, to print them as accurately as possible; and the accuracies of which Senators very justly complain, I have no doubt, are inadvertent, and are inseparable from the system of making an abstract of a debate as it goes in. No man can do that. As the Senfrom Iowa has observed, when a Senator sets up to speak the reporter does not know whether he is to speak 5 minutes or 2 hours and if he makes an abstract and sends 06 a little at time as the speaker goes on, he may find at the conclusion that he has sent off, the least important part of the speech, and then there is no time or the more important. Then, again, a speech that is made in the early art of the day been much better chance to be reported than one that is made late; and for the benefit of those Senators who are in the habit of detaining us pretty late here I beg to suggest that their speeches are not near as apt to be reported, and cannot be as accurately reported, as they would be if they spoke in the early part of the day and allowed us to adjourn about dinner time. [Laughter.] The only way to make an accurate report of the proceedings of a legislative body is to commence after the body has adjourned and then make the abstract. If the Senate will appoint reporters to do that duty, snncosessssrosn GEOFF); l I. Dec 1b l" B3! that report, the newspapers would all be very glad to take it; but otherwise I do not see how we can get much improvement upon the present system. While I am up, I will say a word upon the practice to which my friendfrom Maineal ihdedI believe he disavowed any intention to 5 stigmatize it as improper on the part of some and will also pay the expenses of telegraphing Senators to give a streets of their speeches to the reporters. As I never make speeches, of course I need make no disavowal of such a practice on my part; but I think it is a good practice. If a gentleman makes a speech here, he of course desires that if reported at all it shall be reported correctly. He may be indifferent to its being reported at all; but he does not want to be reported (as the Senfrom Maine says he has been) as having said the reverse of what he did say. I think it is a very excellent on for a Senator to write 8 or 10 lines giving the substance of what he said, or at least the side upon which he spoke or the points he made, an hand that to the telegraphic reporter in which case I have no doubt it would a ways be forwarded.