Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-03-12 | Page 5 | California House Backs Townsend

California House Backs Townsend SACRAMENTO March 12 iT YM Y- Y M Members of the state senate senat still tiU were trying to get their breath today as asa asa asa a result of the assembly's unexpected indorsement yesterday of an amended amend amend- cd ed resolution calling caIling upon congress to enact the Townsend old age pension pension pen pen- sion plan into national law The action of th the lower house which followed two hours of ot acrimonious acrimonious acrimonious debate came after alter Assemblyman Assembly Assembly- man Charles W. W Lyon administration floor leader read a letter from Governor Gov Coy Frank Merriam containing unQualified unqualified unqualified un un- un- un qualified indorsement of the proposal Including its contentious month a pension feature The governor previously had indorsed the plan in Olin prinCiple principle prin prin- ciple