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Show LEGISLATIVE PAY IS TOO LOW, STUDY REVEALS A study of legislative pay in Utah brings out some very interesting inter-esting information. The rate of legislative pay as it prevails in the state today was fixed fix-ed in the Utah constitution as it was drawn up in 1895- In Article 6, Section 9 of that document the salary stipulation for lawmakers in Utah was listed as follows: The members of the legislature shall receive such per diem and mileage as the Legislature may provide not exceeding $4.00 per day and 10c per mile for the distance necessarily neces-sarily traveled going to and returning re-turning from the place of meeting on the most usual route, and they shall receive no other pay or perquisite." per-quisite." Thus prevails today the same salary status that was in operation opera-tion practically fifty years ago when living costs were so much lower than they are currently, so much lower than they were even in that period immediately preceding preced-ing the present war. |