The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-11

or by procuring copies from the house
library or the library Of congress.
There is an assistant reporter. at $1,000
a year. who has charge o. all the copy"
AS fast as ii is produced In the manner
already described. he puts 1t together. Hav-
ing been corrected as II was turned out II
is IN complete shape for the printer within
few minutes after adjournment. The reg
uiar daily session begins al noon aud ends
about p. m. special messenger comes
on bicycle from the government printing
Office. and by O'Clock the bulk of the
copy" for the next mornings Record IL
IN the public printers hands II there
rs night session, however the last OF the
STUFF may not he delivered until q. nj.
In the government printing oriice there
is separate department for the Record
work, and special stan OF composi,ors.
The Record is put into type, is stereU-
typed. and goes 20 press just like an or
binary newspaper so as to be delivered to
subscribers before breakfast. Its daily cir
culation is 5000 copies and the subsCr,p.
ton price $3.50 month. Each represent.
alive is entitled to twenty two copies free
Snd each senator to forty-two. Tho cost OF
publishing the paper is s125,00o per annum.
REPORTERS FOR COMMITTEES.
In addition to the five shorthand experts
who work on the floor, the house employs
two reporters for committees" at $4,000
each. These men are always at the call OF
the chairman of any OF the nifty eight COM
mittees OF the house, In case OF rush.
other stenographers are hired for special
service from outside. The committee re-
porters divide between them the work,
which Is the most arduous AMI difficult
toll OF this kind Imaginable. In fact no
n at nh In .,tft Lawn nj "a,
SO hard II consists chiefly in the taking
OF the testimony OF witnesses before the
committees, and such witnesses are fire.
quently summoned to talk on subjects alb
strusely technical. Each item of a tariff
schedule Is always deliberately discussed be-
fore the committee on ways and means,
aud inasmuch as a tariff bill embraces some
aS,00O distinct articles, the reporter must
needs be well educated and widely informed
else ne will be involved in maze OF puz
element.
For example, suppose that anilne dyes
are under discussion The subject has u
big technical vocabulary of its own, with
many built-rp words Of fifteen or twenty
syllnblos Such words can hardly be writ
ten In English much less In shorthand.
vet the reporter must not miss one on any
account II stuck he cannot interrupt the
proceedings OF the committee by asking a
witness to repeat or to spell out word
The same sort of difficulty is fourc with
| electricity which has a most clabura'o " .
| bal technology. Many Of the witnesses VINO
testify about tariff matters IN behalf OF the
various trades SPEAK Ensl.eh very mper-
! fcc,lv. The experts summoned are IN n
| WIN know their subjects from a to lizard,
! and are anxious TO tell all they know. 1hey
| rour If forth in "A more or less incompre-
hcrsihje stream. while the members of tho
! rnu nittee rospond with a continual fire OF
| ouostions
snme,imes n hearing before n committee
r,,,s nya, 1000 nopos OF 1000 words each
''n, words The reporter dictates tho
as,',,f" n HE rrnnbophono. from which his
,r,en,onsis tnl,os II on the typewriter a,
| 4, Zoos along he corrects IL, and practical
| ly rs soon us the hearlnr 's o w. u,v !,
| pus'''eSs is ''i - horh,rd cvncrt (,
,ba ed,tor of Inc volume. From his hand,
it goes direct 10 the public printer 10 n'
issued presently as mouse uouu' n,'