Show SHOULD SOT BE CUT DOW THE Legisature made an eflort to cut down tho per diem and transcription trans-cription fees of court reporters Fortunately For-tunately the Governor declined to affix his official signature to tile measure embodying the proposed reduction If the Aeeembly had had time to properly digest the provision It probably would not have passed there being cogent reasons against It Competent court reporters sufficiently suffici-ently expert to do cfficial work are not lying around loot in heaps They are only partly made by application ap-plication and practice being mostly born This can easily be observed by taking n glance at them the world over Yuu could no more manufacture one out of the average slowgoing fat specimen of the ocnt8 homo than you could train a Liverpool dray horse to do service on the race course in competition with J I C The competent official of-ficial court reporter is a human greyhound He is mentally constructed con-structed for speed He is a bundle of nerves and is not generally noted patience Successive daily work in official court reporting for one week would prostrate the strongest among them The fluctuating and constantly changing character of the labor combined with tho necessity for absolute accuracy causes a terrible strain upon the vital forces Certainly a man should not be expected to do such exhausting 1 exhaust-ing work on small wages ICelther would he because he doesnt have to the competent official court reporter re-porter being a scarce article in the reportorial market Some consideration is due to the long and assiduous training incurring incur-ring great labor and expense In ac quiring me auiiiiy to do the class of r reporting under consideration If r rfwIrnhlH to IjJl 41 price of this line of work that end could be sooner reached by first > increasing i in-creasing tho uompensation thus holding out an Inducement to others to enter the field Then the market would be regulated by the same cause as bean upon all other commodities An Increased supply creates a downward tendency a scarcity runs tho price upward According to this rule the compensation compen-sation should at present be high as 1 any person may ascertain by attempting at-tempting to catalogue the stenographers steno-graphers of this Territory capable of Joins official court work |