Spanish Fork Press | 1909-08-26 | Page 3 | Extra Pay Cut Off

V Extra Pay Cut Off Washington There Is weeping and wailing among the officers and em r ployes of congress The long established custom of granting them an extra months salary each year was ruthlessly swept away fr In the house when Mr Wagner of i Pennsylvania tho presiding officer sustained a point of order made by t Mr Macon of Arkansas against the proposition In vain did Mr Olrastead of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania the father of tho proposition proposi-tion plead for the withdrawal of the point v Messrs Macon und Blsson of Mississippi Mis-sissippi were especially antagonistic They practically charged graft and 1 said the time bad arrived to put an I eJd to It