Mr. HENDRICKS. I am opposed to the amendment, because I am a friend of the Globe. For a great number of years the proceedings of Congress have been very satisfactorily published. No man, I believe, has ever com. plained, of the manner in which the proceedings of Congress have been published there. The contract under which this publication has taken place, or rather the arrangement, was made many years ago, as I understand. The price was fixed a great number of years ago, and has not been increased except as the legislation of 1864 has had an effect upon that. Now, when a work is well done and at a reasonable rate, a rate that has been agreed to for so many years, I do not see the necessity of disturbing it. In 1864 it was found to be impossible for the publishers of the Globe to go on Congress with the work. had declined to take the full sets of the Globe, as had been the custom when the arrangement was 1st made, and for a great number of years thereafter; and the pay did not compensate in view of the greatly increased cost of the publication. Paper and labor had both gone up in price so much that in 1864 the Globe was losing large sums of money. Congress felt the propriety of giving relief to the establishment, and it was . in the act of July 4, 1864. That act provided that thereaf.ter the members of Congress coming in should receive full sets of the Globe. That was the 1st provision, and it was a very important provision, for their relief. The next was that if at the short session the Globe should exceed 1500 pages, or at the long session should exceed 3,000 pages, then the pay for that increased amount of printed matter should be the same as for the 3,000 or 1500 pages, to wit: one cent for 5 pages. Then in the last section of the act it was provided: “That the above provisions are made upon the ocondition that they may be abrogated by either Congress or the publishers of the Congressional Globe and Appendix at any time after giving 2 years' notice for that purpose.” I understand the Senfrom Ohio to expFress tohe opinion that we can discontinue the by the Globe office without notice. am not able to see how he comes to that opinion. He says we can discontinue every thing except the pay provided for in the 2nd section and the back numbers of the Globe, and if we discontinue that, of course they cannot publish more than 1500 pages at the short, or more than 3,000 at the long session, and therefore you do indirectly that which you cannot do directly. I do not think that will quite do. I will ask the Senator, or any other Senator, whether the publishers of the Globe can discontinue the publication without giving Congress 2 years' notice?