Mr. MAYNARD. Well, Mr. Chairman, I confess that I do not understand this item. This may be owing to a want of comprehension on my part, but still this is one of various items for which we have never had any reason given except the one that has been given today “it has always been so?' a prescription be yond which the memory of no man now living runneth to the contrary. Now, the Daily Globe is a newspaper published during the session of Congress in the city of Washington, for which a subscription price is charged just as for any other news aper. It derives its interest and importance from the fact that it publishes the proceedings of Congress. One copy of this paper is placed daily upon the desk of each. senator. I am perfectly willing that the subscription price should be paid if gentlemen desire this paper, and perhaps it is well enough to have it, though f presume that generally more gentlemen receive it than read it. The number of copies, however, furnished to Members and Senators would not require an appropriation of one half, hardly one 10th of o. ero provided for. We know that the congressional matter published in the Daily Globe is the same that goes into the Globe, for which we pay, as will be seen by this bill, a very liberal sum in solido for the whole. Then we pay the reporters. Then we pay, according to the number of copies taken, one cent for every 5 pages exceeding 3,000. Thus for the matter contained in the Daily Globe and the Globewe pay 3 or 4 times over. It seems to me that we would pay enough if we paid only for the newspaper as any other subscriber does. This whole subject ought to be overhauled, ought to be reexamined. A proposition was made at the commencement of this Congress to do this; but it was put off; it received the go by for the time, the supposition being that it would be brought up again at some convenient season; but I recollect telling a gentleman here at that time that the convenient season would never arrive. This system has been going on for a very long time. It has been the fugientem Italiam of legislation for a number of years. It is time that the matter should be overhauled. Though I may not be able in dealing with this many headed power to strike at more than one head at a time, I will strike at one at least by moving that lines 58, 59, and 60 be stricken out. If it is desired to pay for the subscription to this newspaper we can bring it in some other way. My amendment is to strike out the following: DaFiolyr reporting and printing the proceedingsin the Globe for the 1st session of the 40th congress, $21, 250.