Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-05-02

Ogru phic work OF the senate, and it will
be carried on under their direction
after the manner and the methods so
long in vogue under the direction of the
late chief stenographer. They will
have as assistants MIR. E. C. Moxley,
a young man of superior stenographic
requirements, who gives his entire at
tention to the senate work and has been
employed there for IA years; Mr.. Henry
J. Gensler, who in addition to his
stenographic work at the senate is and
has been for many years private secre-
tary for Senator j. Donald Cameron,
of Pennsylvania; Dan P. Lloyd and NJ.
w. Blumenburg. both young men CIV
ing their entire attention to the sen.
ate stenographic work.
During the past so years great strides
have been made in stenography, and
particularly in the methods of tran
scription of stenographic work. For
long time Mr.. Murphy and his chief as
sistant required the services of rapid
long-hand writers, to whom they
would read their notes for tran
scription, in order that they might
be sent to the public printer be-
fore midnight to receive publication
in the Congressional; Record of tee fol-
lowing day. Some years ago type
writer's were invented. and to-day it
would almost be impossible to tran
scribe the senate reports If it were not
for these instruments
The invention of the phonograph and
the graphophone have also tended TO
simplify the work of transcription and
enable the chief stenographers to give
more of their personal time and atten-
ton to the work of accurately report
| ing the debates. AS soon sufficient
amount of space has been consumed
| III their shorthand work on the floor
Of the senate, Mr.. Murphy or Mr.. Shuey
relieves his colleague, and the transcript
ton is carried on in 4 large room on the
east front of the capitol, which is set
aside for that purpose. There either
Mr.. Shuey or Mr.. Murphy will use the
phonograph and will cad into that ma
chime, more rapidly than any senator
! has talked. the very words which were
uttered upon the floors of the senate.
Several rapid typewriter operators arc
| then put to work at the monographs,
and they transcribe the work with great
| rapidity.
| In the office of the secretary of the
senate, at the other end of the senate
wing of the capitol, far away from the
room occupied by the stenographers for
| their work of transcription, there is q
long table where the bills, petitions
| anu ftssOlutlOnS Odlly 1nlrOuuced are
handled under direction of Mr.. Gensler.
Between one and two o'clock every after
noon it is a very busy place indeed. The
newspaper correspondents of the cap
| itol are given free access to this room,
and the stenographers and transcribers
have a hard time of it while they are pre-
pairing this original work for the public
| printer. The newspaper correspondents
have access to all of the papers. and
some of them are very careless. Mr..
Gensler, who is a very good-natured but
nervous and aggressive fellow, keeps all
eye on all of the papers which are
handled by the newspaper men in order
that they may not become mixed or ir-
retrievably lost If this room should
ever be closed to the newspaper cor
| respondents their best avenue of orig
inal newsgetting would be taken away
from them.
1t is in the office of the chief stem
| ographer of the senate that the speeches
of senators are Transcribed in order that
they may be given to the press. For ex-