Accompanying an article on how the House recorded debates, this print showed the trying circumstances under which a stenographer worked during a floor frenzy. As the newspaper described it, a hard-working scribe “walks between a double row of shaking fists, and his trained ear catches all that is possible of the screaming.” By the next morning, the notes were transcribed, edited, proofed, and printed in the Congressional Record. The pace could be brutal, and the article noted that stenographers who could not keep up with the House were sometimes relegated to the “sedate” Senate.