Mr. HALE. If the Gentfrom Tennessee will allow me, I will explain very briefly what I understand about the effect of this Globe contract. I had occasion a year ago or more to examine this subject and then made myself somewhat familiar with it. The details of it are now gone from my recollection, but I know the substance. There is something in the na ture of a contract, to say the least of it. By a resolution of the 2 Houses a JtResolution I think and by the filing of a bond given by John C. Rives, the former proprietor of the Globe, an arrangement has been made betweenCongress and the proprietors of the Globe for the reporting of publishing of the debates at a certain rate of compensation by the column in the Daily Globe, for the daily publication; and in addition to that the proprietors of the the Globe engage to furnish to each member of the House and Senate a certain number of copies of the Globe at a stipulated price; the payment for the reporting by the column and for the volumes as delivered being both parts of the same contract and going to make up the compensation of the proprie tors of the Globe. Now, I do not come here to vindicate the propriety of this arrangement or the desirability of its continuance, but so long as it stands, and until it is terminated pursuant to the provisions of the contract itself, or the resolution whatever it was under which this understanding was arrived at, and which provided that it might be terminated by giving notice until that is done, it seems to me we are bound in good faith to pursue the terms of the contract on our part. And I suggest to the consideration of the ComPrintg and of the members of the House that when it shall be found advisable to depart from this contract or terminate it and pursue some different method of reporting and publishing the debates, according to my humble judgment, an improvement will not be found in transferring this work to the Public Printers, for I believe there it will cost much more than it costs now, but rather in abandoning the whole matter of publishing the debates of this House to private competition and leaving it free to everybody and anybody to publish the reports so far as they see fit and get their payin j. ordinary way; thus getting rid of the cost of supplying copies of the Globe to members of the House, washing our own hands of the whole thing, and leaving it a direct personal matter between publisher and purchaser.