Table showing contents, etc., Congressional Record-Continued. Part. Pages. Remarks. Years. Period covered. Table showing contents, etc., of Congressional Record—Continued. Pages. Remarks. Years. Period covered. The Congressional Record has been published since December 1, 1873 (first session Forty-third Congress), and up to the Fifty-first Congress, consists of 103 volumes. Until a contract for publishing the debates of Congress is made, such debates shall be printed by the Congressional Printer under the direction of the Joint Committee on part of the Senate and of the House of Representatives.-R. S., sec. 78 and Laws 1, 43, p. 5. The followi g rules for the publication of the Congressional Record, adopted by the Joint Committee on Printing on May 5, 1886 (1st sess. 49th Congress), are given for the information of members: First. When copy is taken out for revision by Senators, Representatives, or Delegates it should be returned to the Government Printing Office not later than 12 o'clock, midnight, in order to insure its publication in the Record on the morning following; and if said copy is not furnished at the time specified, the Public Printer is authorized to withhold it from the Record for one day, and in no case will a speech be printed in the Record on the day after its delivery if the copy be furshished later than 12 o'clock, midnight. Second. The copy of speeches containing large tabular statements to be published in the Record should be in the hands of the Public Printer not later than 6 o'clock p. m. on the day prior to their publication. Third. Proofs of "leaves to print" and advance speeches will not be furnished on the night of the day on which the copy is received, but will be sent on the following day, should it be possible to do so without causing delay in the publication of the regular proceedings of Congress. Fourth. Corrections in speeches for the bound edition of the Record should be sent to the Public Printer within four days after the delivery of the speech to be corrected, as it is then stereotyped. Fifth. If copy or proofs have not been returned within the time above mentioned, the Public Printer will insert the words "Mr. withholds his remarks for revision, and they will appear hereafter," and proceed with the printing of the Record. Sixth. The Public Printer is not authorized to insert any maps or diagrams in the Record without the approval of the Joint Committee on Printing. All requests for such approval should be referred to the Joint Committee on Printing, and may be submitted to the chairman of the Committee on Printing on the part of the Senate or of the House, in whichever the speech illustrated may have been delivered, and no maps or diagrams shall be inserted that exceed in size a page of the Record. Seventh. The Public Printer will arrange the contents of the Record as follows: First, the Senate proceedings; second, the House proceedings; 9504-24 third, the speeches withheld for revision: Provided, That should the copy of the regular proceedings, either in the Senate or in the House, be delayed, the Public Printer is authorized to at once begin the make-up, on the first page, with either Senate or House proceedings or with such speeches as are on file, giving precedence to those first received, in their order. Any matter affecting or touching the official record of debates in the House presents a question of privilege.-Journal, 2, 48, pp. 73, 74. Language used in debate out of order, that is, when a member not entitled to the floor or after he has been called to order, not to be printed in the Record.-See RULE in 37th Congress on this point, and also Globe, 1, 38, p. 3390. Record, 1, 44, Aug. 15, 1876. A resolution relating to alleged unparliamentary language used in the House and published in the Congressional Record, impeaching the honesty of Senators individually, and of the Senate as a body, presents a privileged question.-Journal 1, 51, pp. 1041, 1044. No person shall be employed as a reporter for the House of Representatives without the approval of the Speaker.-R. S., sec. 54. On the 3d March, 1873, the following preamble and resolution were agreed to, viz: Whereas the present contract for publication of the debates expires with this session; and whereas the sundry civil appro priation bill, about to become a law, provides that until a new contract be made the debates shall be printed by the Congres sional Printer, but makes no provision for reporting, leaving each house to adopt such arrangements on that subject as it may deem best: Therefore, Resolved, That the report of the House proceedings and debates shall be furnished to the Congressional Printer by the present corps of Globe reporters, who shall hereafter, until otherwise ordered, be officers of the House, under the direction of the Speaker, who shall receive the same compensation now allowed to the official reporters of committees.-Journal, 3, 42, pp. 582, 583. By the act of January 28, 1874, it is provided that five official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the House of |