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Show JB We believe the Senate made a B bad mistake when that body re- B considered the bill to pay the B ' judges of election for 1896 and B 3 then voted against the. passage B - the bill. The judges last fall had B a great deal of work to do on j election day, more so than on 1 former elections because of the new law, and why these men 1 should be called upon to work for the public for nothing is something we have never been able to see, J and wc take it they are just as ' much entitled to be rewarded for their labors as the gentlemen who make the laws. If we remember orrectly the members of the constitutional convention put in more time in making that instrument instru-ment than the appropriation to pay the expenses would cover, but the gentlemen asked Congress to appropriate ap-propriate enough more to pay them for the whole of their time, and had they not received the amount there Would have been some kicking. If it was right to pay them and we claim it was so also is it right that the judges of election should receive their ( pay, for in many instances they j are poor men and cannot affoul to work for the public for nothing, i |