The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-03

voted to the use Of official reporters, alt
bis place upon tie floor being taken by one
Oh MS associates. proceeds to talk the
STUN into graphophone. The record
OF the sound cylinder is then transcribed by
an amanuensis upon the typewriter. and Sc
the shorthand characters pass through the
shortest possible transition into clear type.
BY this method at least two reporters
always remain upon the floor of the cham
Der. the one who is taking down. the
speaker, and his associate, who is waiting
| to relieve him.
| At the close of the days session, or
rather few minutes after, the typewriter
copy is arranged by an assistant in the
| stenographers' room, who hands it to a
messenger, ard the latter mounting his
bicycle, starts for the Government Printing
othce. several blocks away. Generally it
reaches that office about o'clock, though
in case of a night session, the last Of the
copy may not be delivered until 1 o'clock
a. m.
whole department of the Government
Printing Office is devoted exclusively to
the Congressional Record This depart
ment resembles in nearly every feature
mammoth newspaper composing-rOom for
the Record is set up" and sent to press
Just like daily journal. being delivered
every morning TO about fifteen thousand
subscribers. Each Representative gets
twenty-five copies daily, while a Senator
is entitled to forty-two. Anybody may
subscribe, the price being sl5O a month;
but the subscription list is not sufficiently
large to make the publication profitable
as 1t costs the Government $4,000 yearly
1t IS interesting TO hear Mr.. Shuey tell
now the Senate corps of stenographers was
established, and how it used to have its
headquarters in the Office of the Globe
newspaper, on Pennsylvania Avenue. In
those days there were no typewriters or
graphcphones, and the reporters had to
stay up until the "wee, sma' hours"
transcribing their notes. The paper did
not come out until IL o'clock the following
day, and, of course, by that time another
session was ON In fact, as Mr. Shuey
says, the Globe was more reIiquary
than a record.
1t was Richard Sutton an English Par
liamentary reporter, who had sat beside
Charles Dickens in the gallery, and who
became associated with the elder Bennett
upon the Herald" who established the
independence of the Senate reporters
Before this was accomplished, however,
there was battle royal between Mr.. SUIT
ton and Messrs. Blair and Reeves then
proprietors of the Globe but the Gov
eminent happened to agree with the views
of the first named factor in the contest.
and the result was the establishment of
the corps upon its present basis. In 1873
the first number of the Congressional
Record" was printed at the Government
Printing Office. By that time Mr. Sutton
had died, and his place as head stem
ographer to the Senate was ably filed by
d. F. Murphy. who was regarded by his
associates as Incompatible in his line.
Messrs. Edward V. Murphy a brother
of d. f. Murphy. and T. F. Shuey. are as
ISOLATED in charge of the present corps.
buS, contrary to most chiefs in Govern
ment places. they do quite as much work
as their assistants. The other members
OF the corps arg Messrs H. J. Gensler. d.
B. Lloyd, NJ. W. Blumenberg and assist
ant. L. H. Monkey.
The House reporters are Messrs. David
W. Brown 1.-THE oldest Congressional stem
ographer in point of service), John H.
White. A. C. Weloh Fred Irland. and
Renl Small. For House committees the
reporters are WILL ]. Kehoe and George
C. Lafferty.
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