Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-05-19

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 as a. sufficient
amount of space has been consumed
Ill their shorthand work on the floor
Oh the senate, MIR. Murphy or Mr., Shuey
relieves his colleague, and the transcript
ton is carried on in large room on the
east front of the capitol, which is set
aside Tor that purpose. There either
MIR, Shuey or Mr.. Murphy will use the
monograph and will read into that ma
cn'ne, 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 Photographs,
and they transcrihe the work with great
Fhpidity.
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 a
long table where the bills, petitions
and resolutions daily introduced are
handled under direction of Mr. Gensler.
between one and two oclock every after
noon it is avery busy place indeed. The
newspaper correspondents of the cap
itol are given free access to this room.
and the stenographers and transcribers
have 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, Whe is u very good-naturcd but
nervous and aggressive fellow, keeps an
eye on all of the papers which are
handled by the newspaper men in order
that they may not become mixed or IT,
retrieyRblE 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
pgrapher OF the senate that the speeches
Of senators are Transcribed in order that
they may be given to the press. For ex-
ample, when n senator from Minnesota
or Iowa, Wisconsin or Michigan, Inli.
AHA or Illinois, delivers speech on an
important subject, all of the leading
newspapers of the city of Chicago de.
sire to have full reports of the speech.
II senator from New York, Pennsyl-
vania, New Jersey or any of the New
England states delivers speech of any
Importance to that section, all of tho
leading papers of the city of New York
desire full reports of the speech.
Only the briefest mention is made of
speeches of statesmen upon ordinary
occasions by the press associations; and
the leading newspapers are therefore
obliged to depend upon their special
correspondents for full reports OF
speeches of special Importance either
locally OF nationally.
In the office of the chief stenographer
the speeches are reproduced in the
Phonograph, printed on the typewriter,
and duplicate copies made with carbon
paper for distribution among the news
paper men. Thus it is that the utter,
ances made upon the floor of the senate
are rapidly transcribed and placed upon
the telegraphtc wires as early as nine or
ten O'Clock in the evening, in order that
they may be reproduced ii. print hun
dreds of miles away on the following
morning. SMITH d. FRY.