Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-02-23
The Official Paper of Congress


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" communication with the country. To Ia
ciitate this important object, and diminish the
expense to the people, the CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE
and APPENDIJ, which contain the proceedings OF
Congress revised by the members, are heneeiorh
to be conveyed through the mails FREQ OF postage.
At the late session of Congress the following
Joint Resolution wa passed
Joint Resolution providing for the distribution OF
the Laws of Congress and the debates thereon.
With view to the cheap circulation OF the
Laws of Congress and the debates contributing 10
the true Interpretation thereof, and to make free
the communication between the representative
and constituent bodies:
Be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Re-
representatives. of the United States of America, in
Congress Assembled, That from and after the
present session Of Congress, the Congressional
Globe and Appendix which contain the laws and
| the debates thereon, shall pass free through the
| mails so long as the same shall be published by
order of Congress: Provided, That nothing here
in shall be construed to authorize the circulation
! of the Daily Globe free of postage.
Approved, August 5th, 1852.
The GLOBE will now, l trust, enter upon q new
and more extended career of usefulness. Con-
| gress which DRAWS into its focus all the impor-
tant topics and events of the times, for its discus
| sion and acts on them with view to the inter
ests of the Republic. has provided mode through
which without cost for the delivery, all that is
said and done by the body that speaks and acts
| for the nation, shall be put within the reach OF
| the poorest citizen.
| The liberality with which Congress patronizes
the work, enables the undersigned to report the
proccedn rs. and deliver full sets of both the Con-
| gressionai Globe and the Appendix, containing
! the proceedings, daily debates, the written-out
speeches, the messages of the President of the
| United States, the Reports of the Heads of De-
partnents, and all the laws passed during the
| session, for Three Dollars price which barely
paws for the printing of the copies subscribed for
| h 10 ana
| price of this work with any other, taking into
view the amount of matter and style OF pubIiea,
| ton will find that 1t is the cheapest circulated
| from any press i'll the world: and II the country
places the true rulue its political institutions
I-on the action of that representative body which
| moves and maintains them-which brings under
review, discusses, and acts all the interests of
this widespread Republic, presenting to the peo-
pie every event, foreign domestic, that can,
| however remotely, affect the public interest-it
! may be called the best well the chesPest
| publication in the world
| The approach of new administration unparts
pecuIiar ilnportauca 90 the present session OF
Compress throughout the whole country there
| will be- soiicitude to know what shape Congress
! viii endeavor to give to the national affairs to
meet the incoming Administration. The debates
of the next session will, doubt, as heretofore,
| foreshaLow its policy. 1t is OF the admira-
| Die features of institutions, that the popular
body and Executive Head, both gifted with indie
pendent power, and both representing the peo-
pie and the states, snail act ana reict on edCA
| other 1t is in tnis way the sovereign authe6nS'
cxerted through different agents and sI".n diiteF
eut quarters. gives that direction men lts suPe-
rior force cOmpels sometime even 1isseht1ng de-
- ,.,ho 800 Understand well the policy
| which il Iik ell - bear upon the next Admins
| ,-t;o,, snt TO scan the debates of that Con-
| - Which Immediately precedes it. Not mea-
iSires, only, but the men who are to give them
effect will depend much on the next Congress;
for, without doubt, il will have its due influence
| on the acts of the President, whoever he
may be, i'll regard to all that may interest the
constituencies represented by its members in re-
gard to the greatest, as well as the smalles. mat
| tiers and appointments affecting them.
The proceedings of Congress first publish
cd in the Daily Globe, which is laid on the desks
| of all the members, to let them see the reports
! and make hat corrections they think pro-
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The Congressional Globe and Appendix are
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| The Congressional Globe is made up of daily
proceedings of the two Honses, and the Appen-
dix embraces the long speeches withheld by the
speakers for revision the Messages of the Pre-
| sident of the United States, and the Reports of
the Heads of the Executive Departments.
| The laws passed during session, and the in
deX to them are printed rs possible after
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the Congressional! Globe and Appendix.
| TERMS.
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Subscriptions should reach here by the 18th of
December, ut furthest to insure them all the num-
| bers-
! have about five hundred surplus copies of
the Congressional Globe for the last session. which
contain, besides the proceedings of Congress- all
laws and joint resolutions passed during the ses-
! sion. The proceedings and laws make 2.552 pa
ges, and the list of appropriations and index. not
yet printed. will make about so pages more. l
will let those who subscribe for the Gongrrssion-
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bound for Twelve Dollars. Every person who
takes any part in the politics of this country
should possess them.
| JOHN C. RIvEs.
| Washington, October e0th 1859.
40 Southern and Western
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