Mr. SHERMAN. I do not know thatI ought to say anything in regard to this matter; and probably I should not do so but for the fact that the reporter referred to is clerk to a committee ofwhich I am a member. He was a clerk a long time before he was employed by the Asso ciated Press to send their ispatches as to the proceedings of this body. I regret myself his employment as a reporter of the Associated Press; but, like most of the clerks of committees, he had the leisure, the opportunity, the time, and the ability to make reports for the Associated Press. He was employed for that purpose. There was nothing inconsistent in this employment with the legitimate performance ofhis duty as clerk to a committee; and indeed it is a factknown to us all that very many of the gentlemen connected with the press throughout the country in different States are emploed here in various capacities in connection With our committees, and with offices in the Depts. It has never been held as an o bection. blow, as to the particular complaints that have been made by Senators against the reporter of the Associated Press I can say nothin. Iniust confess that I care butvery little what the papers report of me, and do not pay much attention to them. If injustice has been done to the Senfrom California, it is a propersubject of complaint. I thought when the subject was referred to the ComLibrary, that they would devise some mode by which a legit imate and fair report of our proceedings could be written out for the Associated Press. But it must be remembered that the Associated Press are at liberty to report just what they please. We do not pay them for their reports. They are not our agents; they are not employed by us. They have the right to report just as much and just as little of our proceedings as they choose. Sometimes they may do injustice to Senators. How can we prevent it? Unless you say that nobody shall sit in the gallery and report the proceedings of this body, unless it is some person paid by us and under our surved lance, as a matter of course they are at liberty to report as much or as little as they choose. You cannot control the action of the press. I have felt within the last. 3 or 4 weeks a little sore about the conduct of certain news papers, but I have found it wiser to say nothing about it, with the hope and with the assurance that the people always finally correct an neglects or misapprehensions of the press. thin that if the Senate should undertake to correct the mode and manner of reporting for the As sociated Press, they will undertake that which they cannot accomplish. The better way, it seems to me, is to allow the reporters to write what they please do as they lease. If the Senate think, as a ru c, that no one in the employment of an committee of this body or of congress or o any Dept of the Government, should write for the newspaper press, they ought to put that in the form o a law or resolution, so that we could all know how to act. I will venture to say that there are but very few clerks of the committees of either House of Congress that do not write for news papers. If you desire, however, to prevent your clerks and employee s from writing for newspa pers, you have the power to do that at any moment by a simple resolution; but you cannot control, and you ought not to attemptto control, the reports made by the Associate Press orb any newspaperin the country of the proceeinvs in congress.