Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-12-30

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reporting plan to their respective Houses to place this bust
under the control and management Of the two Houses
each for ITSELF The principle being agreed in, the details be-
points Of anxious inquiry TO accomplish the great
object in view, different degrees steps in the pubica
ton became indispensable. FrRsr prompt publication Of
the debates Of each day the morning Of the following day
and their immediate communication TO the people in all parts
Of the United States To do this required the columns Of
the daily press and necessarily involved running report Of
the debate be put press most usually without revision
correction by the speaker SECONDLY, revised and
reced publication Of the debates in durable book FORM
constitute The authentic parliamentary history of Congress
Interviews with the practical and propeors Of the large
printing establishments in this city show that il be DONE
The National Intelgencer and the Union each will under
take to report, print publish and circulate through their
changes and subscribers, the daily debates of Congress.
Mess Blair Rives will engage to continue their revised
and corrected publication Of the debate in the book form
in which il done This is for the daily running de-
bate, and which is the morning Of each day
after its delivery and to appear also in the country edition Of
the paper Speeches detained by members for correction and
revisa will appear in the daily papers, the first moment
there is for them without throwing out the current
debate in the Congressional Register they will appear in
appendix but the whole running debate may be revised and
corrected for prompt publication in the Register and for that
purpose the publisher Of the daily reports will be required to
deliver each member copy of the morning paper that he
may how he is reported in each, and correct immediate
if he chooses and send it to the Congressional Register
take its permanent place in the book-form.
The committee have resolved that there should be daily
papers, Of each political party to publish the current de-
bates and this for obvious II is idle quarrel with
human nature Two parties exist, have existed, ard will
exist in this in all free Governments and is in vain for
the party in power endeayor monopoze advantages and
ii wrong in ITSELF and often politically injurious to give
sided information to the public The plan proposed for the
publication of the daily debates puts each party upon
equality and what is more 1t enables the readers and
copyts from each paper the whole debate both Sides
and thus escape the evils Of onesded and partial information
The revised and corrected debates in the bookorm having
thing of the party character Of political paper and contain
ing nothing hut the debates and proceedings do require
establishments print them, and therefore proposed
tobe left in the faithful and competent hands in which they
nov are
This is the plan which has recommended itself to the
mtees Of the two Houses, combining all the advantages
proper be obtained by the publication of the debates and
proceedings of Congress object which requires double
pulcaon-one in the daily press, for the daily information
ofhe people, and in the book FORM for the permanent pre-
savaton of the debates and proceedings.
The committee have conferred with the propeors OF the
printing establishments referred o and find them ready TO
gge the business according to the plan proposed Theex-
pse and the proper mode Of making the compensation,
tie next object Of inquiry with the committee and for this
purpose the actual expense Of reporting, printing publishing
md circulating the debates and proceedings Of Congress by
the daily papers has been carefully asceaned The
found be about five dollars for reporting the quantity
tanned in column, BREWER type Of the Union Intelligent
GER and about dollars and fifty cents for the composition
setting up of the in type Then follows the expense
Of paper ink pesswo folding, packing, directing, exchange
papers, and distribution throughout the Union. The
Of each Of these items considerable Of the WHOLE large
and the two last alone beyond what unnomed persons
would suppose. The distribution alone, including folding,
packing, directing &c. employs six persons night
wages with the comforts Of fire in the winter and lights al
ways The expense Of exchange papers is great from the
great number Of exchanges in which the bealy Of the
American press INDUCES and almost dead loss the large
daily papers, from the little which they make of the
the papers received in exchange from the crowded
local demands upon their columns. Yet this is
pensc indispensable the communication Of the Of
the pspe other newspapers throughout the Unop and thus
to the people, Heavy, them the expenses Of the papers,
and requiring the working Of large system Of exchanges and
distributor before the debates Of Congress- after being report
ed and put in type, reach the eye Of the people in the
thirty Ses Of this Uncn and 60 foreign countries Yet
this partof the expense, with all its attendant labor the pro-
preors the Intelgcer and Of the Union willing take
upon themselves in dusing the debates and proceedings Of
Conges, provided Congress will desy the expense Of the
two frsitems, the reporting and composition. This the
iee consider not only just but generous, and have the gra-
csor say that the expense thus incurred win only be
small ncompason the greatness Of the obec, attained but
insignificant, compared to the expense Of attempting give
information TO the people through the multiplication Of public
documents The weekly expense computed at between four
and five hundred dollars during the sessions Of Congress for
each Of the daily papers, giving aggregate for the whole
session. either long short Of less than is frequent
" paddy Congress for the printing Of single docu-
men en lost in gea, part, il worthy Of distribution,
for wat Of system Of distribution. In conformity all
which he following resolution is herewith reported:
"Raolred, That, in order foil impartial
and prompt publication Of the proceedings and debates Of
the Sna the Secretary Of the Senate be and he hereby
authorized and directed to enter into contract to take e.
feet from this day. with the Projectors Of each Of the daily
and continue until otherwise ordered BY the Senate for
the daily publication, in each paper, Of all the debates and
proceedings Of the Senate and for the early subsequent pub
fully 10 revise and write full length, for which the
Of dollars and fifty cents for column Of BREWER type
eed the country edition Of said papers, and copy
the daily edition Of each paper shall be furnished 10 each
member during the session without additional charge"
This Report having been made in each House,
the Resolution which il proposed for adoption failed