Mr. ANTHONY. Certainly, it will not be continued; but for the present year it will cost a great deal on account of the mustering out of so many men. It is not an annual expend iture but it goes in to make up the $1, 750,000 which is called 2 millions. The next great item is the Treasury Dept; that is $261,000. The printingo the Treasury Dept, of course, must be immensely greater for a revenue of 4 or 500 millions, drawn from every Dept ofindustry and almost every Dept of life, going in and counting a mans silver spoons and requirinr returns of them, than it was for an income of $80,000,000 drawn from customs. This item of $201,000, instead of diminishing will doubtless increase, because the internalrevenue increases, and as the southern States are becoming objects of taxation a large amount of printing will be required for the revenue otheers there, for, [be ieve, whatever dilierences of opinion may exist about admitting the southern States to a share in the representation, the blackest Republican does not mean to deny them the blessings of taxation. The printing for this Dept, therefore, instead) of diminishing will increase. Another item is the postoffice Dept, which is more than $100,000. The Dept of Agriculture is $45,000; the Judiciary is $28,000; the Interior Dept is the modest sum of $25,000. All of these sums I have no reason to doubt are necessary and the amount is economically expended. This reduces the cost for Congress alone, for the 2 Houses, for the printing, paper, and binding, to 8600.000. The cost for the same items for the 33rd, 34 th, and 35th Congresses was $374,000 a year. 690,000 dollars today will not do as much printing as $374,000 would then, nothing like it, and the reason why we can do for $000,000 now what required only $374,000 then is because it is done new mac more economically. There was a large profit to the contractors in the smaller item, and there is none in the larger item. Take the printing alone, leaving out the paperand the binding, of which the prices have risen enormously the amount now paid for the Senate is $50,000, against $07,006 years ago, and the amount for the HoRep is $75,000, against $125,006 years ago, the average of the 6 years precedin the establishment of the Government Printing office. The whole printing now of both Honses of Congress, leaving out the paperand the binding. the printing alone is $125, 311 46, u ainst $102, 782 40 under the old system, when everything was a great deal cheaper than it is now, showing a saving of over 25%. No such documents are printed now as the Pacific Railroad Reports, the Japan Expe dition, and the Mexican Boundary Survey. The Mexican Boundary Survey Report cost $80,000, and the Pacific railroad publication cost 3 quarters of a million. I do not know what the Japan expedition volumes cost, but the money that was expended on these 3 publications would have placed a good library in every congressional district in the U.S. The Treasury blanks, which are printed at the public Printing office, I think might be printed more economically elsewhere, for printing is very high here, but there is a particular reason for having them all printed here. It is very desirable that the blanks should be iden tical; it is very desirable for the detection of errors and frauds that the returns which are made to the Treasury Dept should be precisely the same, such as the clerks are familiar with looking over, all over the country, and many of them are printed in duplicate one set being bound in the Dept and the other set sent out, and when the returns come in it requires less clerical labor for the examination, and the examination can be conducted with a great deal more accuracy, and gives much better opportunities for authenti caung the returns. I have made these remarks, Mr. President, because I did not wish to see conss laboring under the imputation of great ext vagance where it has really induced important econ omy. I need not say after these remarks that I consider the establishment of a Government Printing office as a very economical arrangementfor the Government. I tremble to think what would be the bills brought in upon us if all this printing was done now by contract, if we were at the mercy of contractors for the printing of the various blanks and forms that have been made necessary during the war, the prices of which could not be stipulated for in advance; and I should not do justice to my own feelings and to a very faith ul officer if I did not say that I think the Superintendent of Public Printin is one of the most economical; care ful, an faithful Officers that I ever came in contact with. His whole object is to reduce the expenditures of his Dept as much as possible, and to reduce the amount of printing ordered by Congress, constantly persuading us to do it, and also to print the executive work at the lowest price that is compatible with its accuracy and with the efficiency of the public service. The printing is done now a great deal better than it ever was before and a great deal cheaper. The amendment was agreed to. The resolution, as amended, was adopted.