Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-04-25

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ing their entire atteut.on Ia lac IN
ate stenographic work.
During the pnst 50 ears great strides
have been made in stenogrnphy. and.
particularly in the methods of tram
| scription of stenographic work. For q
long time Mr.. Murphy and his chief as
sistant required the services OF rapid
long-hand writer's, 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 IL
would almost be impossible to tran
scribe the senate reports if it were not
for these instruments.
The invention of the photograph and
the graphophone have also tended 20
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 dobates. AS soon as 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 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
monograph and will cad into that ma
chine, 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
long table where the bills, petitions
and resolutions daily introduced are
handled under direction of Mr.. Gensler.
Between one and two o'clock every after
noon it is u very 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, who is 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-
retricvably 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.
ographer of the senate that the speeches
of senator's 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, Indi-
ana or Illinois, delivers "a speech on an
important subject, all of the leading
newspapers of the city of Chicago de-
sire to have full reports of the speech.
If senator from New York, PennsyI-
vania, New Jersey or any of the New
England states delivers a 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