The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-02-03
Tho Globes.

Dir. SUMNER a few days ago proposed K
take up his supplementary civil rights blu
whsleupon Mr.. HAaLlN suggested that the
Senate should, before proceeding TO its con.
sideration, sing the tuno of Old Hundred.
This latter remark was, ut tho request OF
HANLI;, omitted from the report Of tho Sell
ate proceedings in tho Daily Giobc, but
GUNNER the noyt day rose in tho Senate and
nude it known that he intended to havc il
inserted in the Congressional Globe, as he
had tho right TO do. Thereupon Mr.. GREE
LEY onos more fired OF his blunderbuss at
tbs Globes, dcnouncing tho official reports
Oh untrustworthy, expensive, and useless.
We beg leave to differ with the philosopher
Of tho white coat and "shocking bad hat"
The Daily Globe Is equal to any number OF
clerks as assistants to the members. We
hardly know how Congress could get along
without it. A bill which may have been in.
PRODUCED at twelve o'clock ut night appears
In the Daily Globe the next morning, and
each member can read it for himself. We can
learn from no other paper tho nature Of the
proceedings Of the two Houses. The reports
In the New York papers are unroliable-that
IL to say, tho reporters, either from ignorance
or lnattention, miss the best points made in
any given debate, and totally misstato the
purport and effect Of almost every important
bill. In many cases they publish worthless
bills and omit important ones. They ira.
vesty the speeches Of tho members. They
put puerlls arguments into the mouths OF
statesmen. They report NyE's bu2oonery
and any other members impoltcness; but
they give none Of THURMAN's able legal argu.
ments or sonURz's philosophical speeches
They do not lot us SEQ that tho Senate cor.
tains number Of men whose abilities arc
perhaps equal to those of Its members at any
A..~ ~us day. They keep such a literary
.,oo., md learned fool as SUMNER iu
the foreground, nv. "''o"lns Tie senela
public to perceive, as e,~>. ~. Va sus
Globe must perceive, that he Is ~. L" p's'"s
IN the hands of EDuUSDs, or THuRaAH, u
TRUMBULI., or FRyLINGHUYsEN, or CARPENTER,
or HOWE, or several others we could name.
They do not even allow us to learn to respect
the ADoNIs from New York-Mr. CoNKL1EG-
who Is really fine lawyer, courteous de-
batter, and u fooman worthy of almost any
other senator's steel, though be is coxcomb
and Radical, and q GRANT man at that. In
tine, they furnish reports which, though not
intended to be untrue, and though they
really arc true in certain seuse, give false
idea Of the proceedings.
As permanent record Of the acts Of Con-
gress and of Its debates, tho Congressional
Globe and Appendts are valuable publlca-
tons. The Daily Globe, which so many
people call the Congressional Globe, (as In
deed it is in general sense,) is read by the
members of Congress, and its mistakes, if
any there be, are corrected by them before
the proceedings are published in the Con-
gresstonat Globe. So that the Daily Globe is
sort Of proof'sheet, or last revise" which
congressman read for themselves. But no
member can alter single word of any other
members speech; nor omit ..one Of his own
If to do SO would destroy the force of any
other members remarks. HAMLIN, in tho in
stance we have mentioned, had his remark
omitted, but SUMNER had 1t restored because
the next remark was his own, and was
rendered unintelligible by ths OMISSION,
his being III these words, "Let the senator
lead of" THAT Is, in singing Old Hundred).
The Congressional Globe is as nearly per.
feet transcript, 50 to speak. Of the regular
proceedings Of Congress as any reasonable