| Show SHOULD NOT BE CUT DOWN TUB legislature made an effort to put down clown th per diem and trans fees of court reporters fortu natly ly the governor declined to hils hi official sigua signature ture to the measure embodying the proposed reduction if th the e assembly had bad had time to properly digest the provision it pro probably babis would not have passed there being cogent reasons against it competent court reporters sufficiently ol 01 expert to do official work are oot not lying around aroun arou nd loose in ID heaps they are only partly made by application and practice being mostly born this can easily be observed by taking a glance at them the world over you could no more manufacture one out of the average slow going fat specimen of the he genus homo than you could train a liverpool laverpool dray bosse to do service on en the race course in competition with J 1 I C the competent of mein flegal court reporter is a human greyhound he is mentally constructed ted for speed he is it a buddle of nerves and is not generally noted for patience successive daily work to in official court reporting for one week would prostrate the strongest among them the fluctuating and constantly changing character of the labor combined with the tee necessity for absolute accuracy causes a terrible strain upon the vital forces certainly a man should not be expected to do such exhaust fag work on small wages neither would he be because he be have to the competent official court reporter being a scarce article in the reportorial market some dome consideration is due to the long and assiduous training incurring great labor and expense in acquiring the ability to do the class of reporting under consideration if it is desirable to bring down the price of this line of work that end could be booner reached by first increasing the compensation thus holding out an inducement to to others enter the field then the market would be regulated by the same cause as bears upon all other commodities an increased supply creates a down downward ward tendeD tendency cy a 4 scarcity runs vie the price upward according to this rule the compea 6 bation should at present be high as any person may ascertain by at tempting to catalogue the steno grap hers heirs of this territory capable of join official court work |