Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-02-19 | Page 8 | Capitol Hill Personalities

CAPITOL HILL Personalities Members of both houses of the legislature considered tha matter of their own compensation Thursday and came out with all kinds of results re-sults and opinions. e a The lower betas refused to let a mere ejneetlon of eomtltuUonallty interfere with Its purposes and wont merrily along to vote a So a day expense account for eaeh ef Ha members and these of the sea-ate. sea-ate. The bid waa accorded overwhelming over-whelming support, despite prase pra-se ta from Speaker Joarph W. Jeneea and other members that aa opinion from the attorney genrr-al'a genrr-al'a office held it la con file with the state eanatitution. Tha measure meas-ure had beea hurried through tha lee; tela tire machine ahead at ether bilks after In traduction Wednesday Wednes-day under the signature at 44 Baesnbcra, . Over in tha other chamber the aenate blushlngly took up a lower house resolution calling for a vote of the people on a constitutions! amendment to boost the salary of legislators. Previously paaaed by the houss, It would Increase from 64 to 610 the daily pay. e Senator Ira A. Hugrlna, Weber, started a period af fua by pra-paalng pra-paalng aa amendment making any eeaatar voting mvarabty aa tha naatatloa guilty af a miede- Sasd Mr. Hue si net "We said to tha people at tha seat slocMoa "Here Is tax oxeanpttoa aa your hemes; wo think w hav delta pretty weO, so w are asking yeas to rasa easr pay.' "And waa dM they def "Why, they didat va vote ye a good part at tha time; they rated aa amptiatto a meet ef the time, e e e But Mrs. A. H. Lund. Salt Lake, had aa entirely different approach to the problem. "Tha way to make other people respect your worth is for you to place a worthwhile value oa yourself," your-self," argued the feminine senator. "I would favor raising it to 615 a day." see However, Senator Daniel Stevens, Ste-vens, Fillmore, and AkMss F. Hopkina, Creydea, were aet ea sura of the aolutieaL Mr. Stoveaa prepoaed aa asneatdmeert peaeiasj tha pay at IS a day, bat Mr. Hep-kins Hep-kins towered M still Basra with aa ameadmewt to tha smese'miat calling far C -Tha people think they eaa get trgielatera to came her far a dollar a day," ine sited Mr. Stoveaa. Sto-veaa. Aad they are assart right, observed ob-served Mr. Hepkiaa. . Then followed a period during which proposal aad opinions flew thick aad fast. Senator G. O. Uad-