We sat together at table and suddenly he turned and said: "How are you getting on with your bill ?" And my reply being rather halting, he continued, "You won't get a vote in either House," and he proceeded very humorously to improvise the average member's argument against it as a dangerous power, a perquisite to the great newspapers and an imposition upon the little ones.

To my mind this was something more than the post-prandial levity it was meant to be.
Not long after a learned but dissolute old lawyer said to me, "You need no act of Congress to protect your news service.

There are at least two, and I think four or five, English rulings that cover the case.

Let me show them to you." He did so and I went no further with the business, quite agreeing with Mr.Blaine, and nothing further came of it.

To a recent date the Associated Press has relied on these decisions under the common law of England.