Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-10-13

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committee stated that he was not seek
ing to shift any of that. When the
proper time came he would not mince
matters. He would call things by their
right names. If he discovered thief
he would say he was one.
WHAT Mr.. DAMRoN THINKS.
Hon. J. M. Damron thought things
were not proceeding in the right way.
He understood that all the Bar Associa-
ton had aimed at was to ask the Judges
to. fix the rate of compensation the re-
pSfters should get. 1t was delicate
matter for the association to proceed in
this matter in this way. Mr.. Damron
called up report Of Judge Haynes,
which requested the Judges to fix the
fees according to the provisions OF the
statutes, which have heretofore been dis.
MIR. Damron's remarks were
NOT fruitful.
WADE AGAIN.
Judge Wade said Judge Clarke had
made a suggestion to him, as he could
not be present in person. 1t was that
the litigants pay the money to the Clerk
OF the Court, and not the reporter. Judge
Clarke thinks the reporter should not
get more than $40 for any one day g
work. If q case is called let the litigants
pay $40; if second case is called that
day let IS be paid the Clerk; if third,
let $3155 be paid and then let the $40 be
apportioned between the three cases at
the end Of the day, and pay back to each
cause what is to be refunded. AS to
transcripts, Judge Wade said he would
hereafter endeavor to apply remedy
himself. He would try to "keep 80
much rubbish" from getting into the re-
ports Of case. He thought the attor-
news in the heat of argument said many
things that cut no figure in the case. He
would order such matter rescinded from
the reports hereafter.
MR.. WHITE EXCERPTS.
Judge Wade's programme brought
Governor s. M. White to the floor. He
objects to the plan above outlined. The
very thing the Judge might leave out
might be the very thing an attorney
might rely on. Courts may always be
right, but they did not always "guess as
the court Of last appeal"
Mr.. White went on to say that thirty
years ago reporters who worked by i'm.
perfect methods got twenty cents for
each folio of 100 words. They get the
same now when the typewriter is glad tc
do transcribing for five cents folio. He
thought Is cents would be a big price
Work is done in one-third the time il
used to occupy, yet we pay just
as much as ever. The expense
of litigation is immense. II
ought to be reduced. The reporter does
not count his folios too carefully. He
gives himself the benefit of all the
doubts there may be. If litigant
wants two copies, the original costs &C
cents folio and the duplicate Is cents
If it were net for the time, the lawyer
could teae one copy and get second
made from that for cents, and save 1C
cents folio. The reporter ought to be
content to gel Is cents tor the first copy
and 10 cents for the second. The second
is taken by merely putting bit of paper
between the sheets. 1t does not take a
moment longer. If there is no other
way to regulate it, salary the reporters
and let these big benefits go to the
county, so that the people may get back
part of it.
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not think that reporter ought to get SIC
three or four times over for as many
cases the same day. If be gets $40 O
day that ought to be sufficient. The
Court ought to apportion it to the several
cases.
Some one interposed suggestion tina
some days there might be no case at all
and then the reporter would get no pay
Mr.. White said with some warmth tha
the reporter could better afford to 90 now
and then without his days pay than
the litigants, many of whom are poor
can afford to pay those enormous charges.
Besides, it has not been 80 heretofore
that clerks have exacted $40 for each
case called. 1t is new abuse.
HOW THE COUNTY SUFFERS.
Mr.. Hardesty, of the District Attor.
ney's Office, here addressed the assembly
as to the county's interest in the matter
He said the Supervisors were anxious to
get at some fair adjustment of this mat
ter. They wanted fair schedule estab-
lished, such as they could afford to pay
promptly. In some criminal cases bills
are coming in for $500, $500 andl$600 for
transcribing the records. He stated that
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$40 a day some per diem bills come in
for $35, many for $50. These charges
were excessive. He thought for trans.
cribing records, where a man can dc
500 folioe a day, or $40 for ten hours,
work, as the prices are now fixed, toe
much. It costs cents for the services
OF typewriter, and if the reporter got
5 cents for reading his notes that ought
to do. He said he knew OF cases where
the reporters had gone out of the city to
take testimony in Justices Court, and
they made up statement and sent it tc
the Justice to certify that they had
transcribed 80 many folios, coming to &c
much. The county has no check on the
rapacity of the reporters.
REPORTERS FOR $75 A MONTH.
j. A. Graves, Esq, took the foer and
stated that many law firms have
as good reporters as any in the courts
who get SIS month salary. He thinks
if the Office of court reporter was salar
led plenty of good men might be had fol-
500 month.
Here general discussion followed, in
which some Of the members in the back
part of the room stated that a bright
man can learn shorthand reporting in
six months. It was the general opinion
that good typewriter can transcribe
twenty folios an hour. A question was
raised as to the reporters exacting $40
for taking down a few notes on q
motion. Mr.. Bulla named case, and
Colonel Wells said he had paid the fee.
Some one suggested the reporters might
strike, Whereupon several OF the LAWYERS