Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-12-22
THE GLOBE /:
The OmciaI Organ OF Congress and News
paper for the People.

paper for the People.
address my annual circular TO the public, APP
prising il that the Globe will its reports OF
The Congressional Debates al the next session OF
Congress. Ii is hardly necessary 10 say that the
proceedings Of The next Congress will be of vast
import 10 the country. The issues which have
been made in relation 10 slavery, connected with
the great interest which is always taken IN Con
gress in relation 10 the nomination OF presidential
candidates, will give intense excitement 10 the
next session, which will be comm nicaled 10 the
public. Whatever is debated in Congress will be
debated everywhere. The importance OF official
reports cannot therefore, be TOO highly estimated
The country will pass upon the proceedings OF
Congress as they progress, and public opinion, II
properly informed, will have sautary influence
upon the result.
The DAILY GLOBE will be printed on a double
royal sheet at eleven O'Clock every morning, ex.
cept Sunday, and will contain all the messages OF
the President OF the United States; the reports Of
the Executive Departments; the entire proceed
ings Of Congress- the laws passed during the
session and the news by telegraph and from
other sources up TO the hour of going 10 press.
The debates in Congress frequently fill thirty,
forty, fifty, and sometimes more than hundred
columns day. Whenever they make more than
twenty-eght columns day. extra sheets are
printed.
TUESDAYS CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE will be pub
lished every Tuesday morning, and contain The
proceedings OF Congress in condensed form; the
current news of the day, and such editorial com
ment upon the times as may be deemed suitable
10 the character of the paper. When the debates
of week cannot be condensed into twenty
columns, and leave eight columns OF the sheet
or other matter and advertisements, an extra
sheet will be printed
The CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE will be the revised
edition of the proceedings contained in the Daily
Globe, and the laws passed during The session,
printed in book form on a royal quarto page, and
will, probably, make four volumes of nine hun
dred pages each. The last volume Of the four
will be an APPENDIX, which will contain such
speeches are written out by the members them
selves with such deferred proceedings as neces-
sarily accompany them Complete indexes will
be made out and forwarded 10 subscribers soon
after the end of the session. II subscriber shall
lose any numbers they will be supplied at the
rate of three cents for sixteen pages.
1t is admitted by every competent Judge, whose
opinion | have heard expressed on the subject,
that the debates of Congress are better reported:
and sold lower than those Of any other legislative
body. A calculation which made for the Senate
of The United States in April, 1884 shows that
Congress pays me for reporting and publishing
its debates in the Daily Globe, and then in the
Congressional Globe and Appendix, only one
eleventh The rate charged in England for publish
ing the debates of Parliament, and about one
seventh the average rate paid by the States OF
Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Kentucky, (Which
are all the States in which the prices paid had
tnen Dcen asCeflalneuJ LOT pupuSDluB tneiT uc-
bates in book form only. The debates Of Con-
gress are offered 10 subscribers, in this Prospec
.tus, for about onehay the price paid for them by
Congress-the expense of reporting, and then
publishing them in the Daily Globe 10 enable
members 10 revise their remarks for the Congress
sional Globe and Appendix, are all paid for by
Congress, and do not form any part OF the so
which an individual pays for them. Calculations
showing the prices paid for debates are printed on
the fourth page Of the paper
To facilitate the circulation ofthe Congressional
Globe and cheaper it TO subscribers, Congress
passed joint resolution making II free of postage.
/ annex it, as the law may not be accessible 10
postmasters generally:
"Joimt Resolution providing for the distribution of
Tie La,os of Congress and the Debates thereon.
"With view 10 the cheap circulation of the
laws Of Congress and the debates contributing 10
the true Interpretation thereof and 10 make free
the communication between the representative
and constituent bodies
"Be it resolved By Tie Senate and House Of Repre-
sentatipes of the United States Of America IN Con-
gress 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 Con-
gress: Provided That nothing herein shall be
construed TO authorize the circulation of the Daily
Globe free of postage"
| commenced publishing the Congressional
Globe and Appendix in 1888. They now make
thirty-.evon volumes The FIRST edition OF many
Of them is exhausted, and | am now reprinting
and stereoiyping them. They cannot be afforded
for less than 81 so volume. Should any sub
scriber wish the back numbers, they will be fur
nished, well bound at that rate.
TERMS.
DAILY GLOBE, one year. $40 90
!" during the session. 90
WEEKLY GLOBE, one year. ..........-.. 90
g during the session. 90
CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE AND Appendix, dur
ing the session. ...................... O0
Two copies of the CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE
AND APPENDIX will be sent for. ........ 10 90
Payments required in advance, Invariably.
Bank notes, current where "A subscriber resides,
received at par The whole or any part of a
mittance may be made in postage stamps The
money should be in this city by the first Monday
in next December, the day fixed for the meeting
of Congress.
Heretofore have sent the Daily Globe 10 those
papers that published my Prospectus. cannot
afford 10 do any longer, as the papers sent for
several years past cost more than all ! received
for subscriptions out OF this city during that time.
JOHN c. RIVES.
WASHINGTON, October 2, 1855.