Mr. SHERMAN. But still, if we are bound to take the Globe at the next Congress we may as well appropriate in the ordinary way, and the amendment would be idle, to say the least of it, if the Senator's view of the law is correct; but I do not so see it. I remember that the bill of 1864 was introduced at the close of the session by the Senfrom RhdIsland merely to provide against a temporary exigency. It was then claimed by the Senfrom RhdIsland, rePresenting the ComPrintg, that Mr. Rives could not continue the publication of the Globe in the then condition of affairs on account of the high price of paper and the high price of labor. That bill was intended to give him relief. It was not to provide for the publication of the Globe, but to give him relief 1st on account of the large size of the Globe, it having extended be ji.1,000 pages at a long session; and next, because on account of the absence of members from the southern States the number of Globes taken had fallen off. The old custom of giving to every new member of Congress a set of certain documents had been discontinued. In this condition of affairs he was not receiving what he had formerly received under more favorable circumstances. The equity of the claim seemed to be so strong as to carry it through without a division, 1 think. It seems to me that the notice required by the 4th section of that law simply relates to the additional price provided for by it. For instance, suppose the Globe was going on in the ordinary way, reaching its 3,000 pages, if we intended to discontinue that we ought to give Mr. Rives reasonable notice, so that he might condense, if possible, the Globe within 3,000 pages, because up to 3,000 pages he is paid in a different way, by the subscription of Congress to the publication of the Globe. The provision in the 2nd section of the act of 1864 was simply intended to pay him for the additional expense caused by the swelling of the Globe beyond 3,000 pages; and the other provision requiring a full set of the Globe to be given to new members was to compensate for the condition of affairs in which we were then placed, by which he was not required to supply so great a number of Globes to members as before. It seems to me that the 4th section of that act does not require any notice for a change of the original contract. The original contract for the publication of the Globe is in certain resolutions passed from time to time by the 2 Houses of Congress directing the manner of publishing the Globe. if I remember aright, when I examined the question, there were 8 or ten of them, perhaps more. They have been varied from time to time. Many of the appropriation bills varied them. That contract was simply a continuing contract at the pleas ure of either party, the one to publish the Globe and the other to pay a certain rate for reporting and a certain rate for the volumes that were published. The 4th section did not affect that contract at all; it did not change the right of either party to discontinue that contract at any moment. It simply provided that this extra compensation should be paid as long as the work was continued, and if we thought the extra compensation should not be aid we should give 2 years' notice so. that Rives might exercise his right under the original contract to discontinue the work. It seems to me that is the meaning of the law, taking into view all the facts connected with it. Full force can be given to the 4th section by confining it to the construction I ive to it; and it seems to me that is. the entire of it. The original contract for the publication of the Globe depended upon the pleas ure of both parties. The stipulation about extra pay for the increased size of the volume, and also about the back volumes to the new members was a new contract, not for years embraced in the appropriations. The appropriation for the additional sets was discontinued in 1860, if I remember aright, and for years Mr. Rives did not get this extra compensation. The 4th section was intended simply to give him this extra compensation for a period of time without changing the original contract, or the terms of the original contract, except as to the extra compensation, and that this extra compensation should be paid until 2 years' notice was given for its discontinuance. It seems to me that notice applies only to the extra compensation and does not extend to the original contract. Either party is at liberty to abandon the original contract, and as a matter of course the furnishing of additional volumes and the extra pay for the additional size of the volumes would fall with the falling of the original contract. So it seems to me, and I think also from the statements which have been made, that a change ought to occur in regard to the publication of the Globe. Since the Globe was organized we have established a Public Printing Bureau. In consequence of the struggles for political patron age and political power, the distribution of the printing of Congress became a disgusting spec: tacle. Those who remember the contest for it during the 3 years from 1857 to 1860 will remember that there was the most disgusting spectacle Presented in the action of Congress. he public printing was a matter of barter and sale; the profits arising from the public print:ing were distributed for political purposes and political objects. To put an end to this both parties, under the lead of one of our colleagues from Ohio, now dead, thought it wise at a time when the Senate was one way politically and the House the other, to adopt the system of severing Congress from the public printing, throwing the whole matter into a bureau organized under the control of Congress and in the power of Congress, but in such a way that no part of the public money could go to the Superintendent of Public Printing. A colleague of mine in the House, who took great interest in the matter in connection with the chairman of the ComPrintg of the Senate, framed the bill organizing this bureeau with a view to separate entirely from polities the printing of Congress and the Depts. It was not carried out as far as the Globe was concerned, though the transfer of the Globe to the Public Printing Office was then talked about, and the reason was this: it was said that the buildings were not large enough; but it was even then contemplated that the whole printing of Congress, including the printing of the Globe, should be done at the Government Printing Office. Under Present circumstances it seems to me we ought to carry out that design. Since then the returns of the Superintendent of Public Printing show that something near 3 or 400,000 dollars a year are saved in the publication of the matter ordered by Conress. We ought to carry out the original design in this respect unless we are prevented from doing so by some contract. In the view I take of this law I do not think it is a case of contract. If it is a contract, Mr. Rives will be entitled to damages. If the proper court should hold that this was in the nature of a contract he would have a fair claim for damages, and if I believed he had a contract which was binding on Ius would certainly be the last man to violate it to save 2 or 300,000 dollars a year.