Mr. FARNSWORTH. I move to amend by adding at the end of the paragraph just read the following: Provided, That no further appropriations shall be made for supplying completesets of Globe and Appendix to membersof any succeeding Congress. I understand that under the requirement of 2 years' notice we cannot refuse this appropriation to furnish these volumes to the new members of the 40th Congress, but we can declare by law that we will make no further appropriation for providing members of succeeding Congresses with sets of I remember very well that 2 years ago when the ComPrintg presented the proposition for the purchase of these vol. umes, the House in the 1st instance negatived it; but afterward it somehow went through. The law as then passed P.for supplying to every new member of Congress a complete set of Globe and Appendix from the beginning of the publication to the time of his taking his seat. Gentlemen can see how this system, if continued, will grow in proportions from year to year. We all know that there are very few new members elected to the next Congress; yet it requires an appropriation of nearly $50,000 to furnish these volumes to new Members and Senators of the 40th Congress. It is obvious that if the system be continued we shall before many years find it necessary to appropriate half a million dollars, then a million; and thus as time goes on the expense will constantly increase. If the furnishing of these volumes be in tended as a sort of subsidy to members of Congress I can only say that it seems to me we are already receiving pay enough. If it is intended as a benefit to . publishers of the Globe, and Iso suppose it was originally, if it is a gift to them, I do not know the Government is under any obligation, to keep it up. e provide that there shall be deposited 100 copies of the Globe in the Library of Congress. 100 copies is enough for the members of Congress. But then in addition we give members 24 copies each. It seems to me high time that we should stop it. These leaks are growing in proportion every year. These amounts are constantly increasing, and there is no telling to what sum they will reach if we do not stop them. It is easy toingraft them on the Government, but it is almost impossible afterward to get rid of them. I propose by my amendment to give the 2 years' notice that we will not, for the 40th Congress, provide members with complete sets of the to.