Show CONTESTS CUT CUI tN IN SALARY A B Edler Seeks to Have Legisla Legislative tive live Enactment Declared Unconstitutional A B Elder will test the constitutionality con of the section of or chapter 28 8 laws of 1907 1001 reducing his salary from I 1800 to a pear In order that the matter may be passed upon J A Ed Edwards Edwards Edvards wards state auditor and Mr Edler Edier have agreed agree on a statement of facts which have been submitted to Judge Ritchie of the district court His Ills de do decHon cHon cion will be final Edler Edier says that the law referred to toIs tois 0 Is unconstitutional because it violates article 6 section 23 of the constitution provides that orly only one subject t matter can be provided for In any sin slit single single gle gb legislative enactment nt The law in question provides for the salaries of several st veral state officers The suit is a result of a remark made I to the senate appropriations committee by ly 1 Mr Edler when he was arguing that thatUs thatus Us t Is salary be increased from to 1 a year He lIe told the committee that he be might as well work for nothing as liB sOo 00 The committee passed pas ed upon his favorably and when the Ute matter came before the senate nate Senator of or Ogder inquired the reason for lor the Senator Vii Wil Williams hams liams chairman of the committee re responded by telling whap wa viar Edler Edier had said and immediately made a motion moLten which was unanimous unanimously ly Jy carried that the salary be reduced to a year ear Edler evidently thinks now that SOO Is much better than noth nothing ing in for he wants pay on that basis |