Mr. GRIMES. This resolution is simply a resolution of inquiry, directin the ComLibrary on the part of the Senate to as certain whether some steps may not be taken 12)secure accurate reports of t ie proceedings of the Senate. I suppose it is known to every body1 that the 1st impressions that are created on the public mind as to our transactions here are created by the short telegraphie dispatches that are sent to the press of NewYork and also published in our city papers here; for, as I understand, the reports that arepublished in the morning papers of Washington are the same that are sent forward the preceding evening to be published in the papersin Baltimore Philadelphia, NewYork, and elsewhere. I need not remind Senators that those reports are exceedingly inaccurate, that they give no proper idea whatever to the public as to what business is transacted here, or as to what may have been the arguments that were submitted by gentlemen who were for or against any given proposition. I thinkI need do no more to convince anybody of that fact than to refer to the telegraph the dispatches that were sent from this city Inst night as to the proceedings of Congress yesterday. I confess that I voted yesterday with the majority of the Senate on the question then before us; but the arguments submitted by Senators who advocated the side with which I voted for I was a silent member then as I am usually seem to have been withheld, while arguments that were submitted by other gentlemen are very copiously given. I do not say that this was in consequence of any improper conduct on the part oft etelegraphic reporter; I do not believe that it was, for Ipdo not believe that any man can sit here in our gallery and undertake to give an abstract of a speech that a Senator is dgelivering here, because he cannot tell what is the drift and scope of the speech, what it is likely to be, whether it is to be one minute long or 30 minutes long, and he may put down upon his paperthat part of the remarks that may be most immaterial, and that is sent forwa to NewYork and elsewhere as being the drift and scope and extent of the speech; whereas if we could make an arran ement with a competent reporter to take upt e speeches after they have been delivered during the day and make out an abstract from them, taking awhole speech together, havingheard the whole of it, then we might convey to the public mind some proper idea of what was said and what was done icre.