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Show HOW REPORTERS ARE REWARDED. As a sample of how a little beginning begin-ning grows to sizeable results, it may be noted that the Connecticut Legislature, Legis-lature, just before its adjournment last week, voted fourteen members of the press $300 each "for their attention atten-tion to business and the accuracy accur-acy of their reports, " aud to remember how this custom of gratuities to reporters in the Connecticut Con-necticut Legislature originated. Iu I860, a reporter of a Hartford paper went out upon a social expedition one afternoon, just before the session ended, with a member of the House of Representatives, and by the time the afternoon's work was finished the member was thoroughly mellowed, and promised his bibulous colleague col-league to introduce a resolution into the House giving the reporters re-porters in that body $iV each "for the fidelity of their reports." In a day or two, the day of adjournment came. In its closing hours, the appeal ap-peal from the member drunk to the member sober wa responded to by a fulfillment of ihc promisc,and the re-solution, re-solution, introduced, was passed, and the reporters fobbed the money. The next year the game wa.srepeateel.aud on the vear following was called for in the Senate and House, and paid. Year by year tiie reporters have raised their rates until, as already stated, this year $500 has been paid, for the "accuracy of the reports"' they were engaged and paid to make by their employers of the press. |