FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS, 1893-1995. 1651 
comes along and proposes to increase the number so that each mem- 
ber shall have about 13. 
Mr. Stmpson. I do not increase the number to be printed at all. 
Mr. Ricnarpson. You do increase the allowance of members, though, 
giving them about 13 each, instead of 6, as the bill proposes. Now, 
each member represents about from 30,000 to 35,000 male voters, and 
there are about as many ladies, making 60,000 or 70,000 grown people 
in each district. It is obvious that you can not supply all those people 
with 13 or with 11 copies of these documents any more than you could 
with 6, and I insist that we ought not to undertake to supply any- 
thing like the demand that may be created in a Congressional district 
for a valuable publication like this. 
Let each member have 6 copies, and inasmuch as this is more or less 
a scientific publication, if he wants to supply the libraries in his dis- 
trict, he will have his 6 copies for that purpose, but we can not under- 
take to meet the whole demand unless we are prepared to bankrupt 
the Treasury. I think We have provided copies enough. I think we 
ought to begin to economize and to keep it up upon every Government 
publication. The Committee on Printing, recognizing that, have put 
the knife to every annual publication of the Government, except that 
of the Department of Agriculture. Gentlemen here have railed about 
discrimination against the report of the Secretary of Agriculture, but 
the fact is that we have treated that more liberally than any other 
publication; we make no reduction in the number of the Agricultural 
Reports published, while, as I say, we have applied the knife to every 
other publication; and I do insist that members on this side of the 
House especially ought not to increase these publications beyond the 
number contained in the bill. Gentlemen have demanded that we shall 
economize, and the only way to do it is to reduce the number of these 
documents published, and the committee propose to do that. 
Mr. BetrzHoover. Will the gentleman yield for a question ? 
The Cuartrman. The time of the gentleman from Tennessee has 
expired. 
Mr. BeirzHoover. Well, I will move to strike out the last word, 
and ask him a question which he may answer in my time. If these 
publications are made, as I understand they are, for the benefit of 
institutions of learning and public libraries, ought we not to publish 
enough of them to be able to send a copy to each public library in our 
districts? This allowance of 6 copies, which the gentleman proposes, 
is not half enough to supply the libraries in my district, and will com- 
pel me to make an unpleasant discrimination against a majority of 
these beneficent institutions. 
Mr. Ricwarpson. This bill provides that whenever there is an edi- 
tion of 5,000 copies printed, 10 per cent of them shall be sent to the 
superintendent of documents in the Interior Department, and he appor- 
