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Show SENATE KILLS BILL FDR MEMO PAY Proposal to Do Away With Chaplains Voted Down in Upper House. A sensation was created in the senate of tne legislature yesterday when Senator Sena-tor V. T. Jones sousht to amend a bill j providing increased pay for employees of j the legislature by abolishing the ofiice j of chaplain in both houses' I Not only was the amendment killed, hut the entire hid was killed. To be ; consistent, lho senate also had to kill a j resolution eallinir for a constitutional amendment to increase the compensation j of me m hers of the h-cisiat nre. The halt In came when H. R No. hy Morris, came tip for eons' deration on ! the "expedition" calendar. This bill d-'- I fined the officers and employes of both j houses of the lesis'ature ami nrovidrd i that the pay of se'-rrtary an 1 chief cb'tv 1 and ser ce a tit. --at -arms should be raised 1 'from ?4 a dav to a day and the pay; of minute e'.erks to a day. An iiiiieml- j meat was offered to make the. pay of all ; other emp'ovees $5 a day instead of j'., j and this carried. i Then Senator Jones moved to stri.-i! ovt of the bill all provision for the chaplains j of the senate a.nd of the hou.-e. l; tcok 1 some mmuu s for t lie semi mrs to c:isp tho real shi'd'icance of the a me -id merit : offered, ns the senator nier-5y mc- cd to i s;;-ike out cevbni words en a cci u;:n i line. "When the scope of the moop oawiv.d ) upon the senators. Senator So;:: hwi.-'-c :i-oe and rlenom-eed te a nnrnd nu" n;. i!e (Uv!arid tha l it won'il he up 't : in ,t a ; j-re-'eJent 'hat had been hande.i down from t 'no times of the tirs; contin-Mital j congress of t lie I'ni: ed S;;d os, i ;t ouid bo undignified and unheard oi. ilj thought the two houses could well afford to bo dhrniliert enough to open ita sessions ses-sions with prayer. Senator Jones remarked that his ob-scrvation ob-scrvation durimr the present session convinced con-vinced him that the senate did not want any prayers; that it wasnt dignified when prayer was hein' offered, and that he considered it sacrilegious to force pray. ts into Tim proceedings of the senate sen-ate when it was very apparent that this part of the proceedings was a "bore" to the senators, judirins: from their actions during the Tim of prayer. The amend-, ment was voted down. Senator Stevens was opposed to the whole hiil. He said tha t some of the employees wore not worth what they are pettinir and he could see no reason for ra isim- the pa y of employees when the senators weir limited to ?! a. dav. Senator Sonthwi- k ohsorvei! that it was apparent tu him t h:i I some of the senators sena-tors were nut worth t !u ' i a dav they ,uet. but he was convinc-d that ? l" a day-was day-was under pa v for a 111-; si a tor and a. so for t lie nmloyi-.'s. Tho sentiment was against any more pav for the omploYees, however, and the bill was kill .1. The s n! lnK'Ht on t he resolution for a eousil'uthmal nm-mdmont to increase the piy of ":s'.a urs to not more than JI0 a '"ay was n-t so stvonLrlw opposed, however. how-ever. Seve-ai of the senators ho had opposed inoveiise in ray for employees th.ouaht i:. "-: , ho all rl-nt to submit to tho nor'o rhe matter of raising the pav of l-7..nturs. ena ; or K: nk wamorl that if It were done it would ''fpat all the other eon-sti eon-sti t u t ionad a mono mem s oft 'erea ;it this m, and ie th.ouviat tht; move un- w i e . a tno when t'o-o ; in.'nor attached to s, rvii'o in ' !'e le-- s a; :n e, and that con;p--v-a:v: :': small pay, hut he thou a t :n'-.: flav h-ai i-ei nn.l now the h ali tor was wo::hv of mor- pav. W: on. rcl, c fla.i the 1:1; failed t'i ra.--s for a iaok rf a o m u ticnai vote The vote u,is 0 for pnSs.-,o. wita S a:a'a; ;;Tnl 1 ahsei.t. 1; i.ihrs tn w ,i s k ii. su-'O.-t.' w"-..h n-;1!- .e sanie os: mo'.icn of ?"':...;i'r |