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Show Judges Out of Politics PoliticsMore , More Pay for Legislators Legis'ators Legisators LegislatorsBy Legis'atorsBy ' voteUtah By an overwhelming overwhelmmg vote , . Utah people accepted the twa two- two - thestate proposed tworproposed twaproposed twoproposed amendments to the thestate state electionlast constitution at the electIon last weekOne weekOne week weekOne One of the amendments takes takesthe the longrecognized longrecogmzed judiciary JudClary ] out of politics long recogmzed recognized as conducive to the best thebest interests mterests of the public and the andthe other leaves the fixing of ofcompensation ofcompensation o ocompensation compensation for legislators to tothe the legislature itself provldmg providing a perannum maximum salary of $300 300 $ per annum is not exceeded At nrc pres _ ' ! ' , _ ent _ fixedby dby _ LLL the _ pay _ _ of . . legislators _ . IS is iix fixed d by the constitution adopted In . . hrmtof limitof 1896 in.1896 in1896 at $4 4 $ per diem with a hrmt limit limitof of bienniumThe blenmumThe 60 days each biennium blenmum The No 1 amendment havmg having havingto havmgto to do with vith the Judiciarylias judiciary \lias lias liasadopted \ wasadopted as asadopted adopted by a vote of 26 69 69o GDo ; > fol for forand forand ' " and 7 'l l ' ' 344 against agamst againstThe agamstThe proposalpolled The legislative pay proposal polled and7 a vote of 22 508 for and proposalwas 7 603 against agamst The same proposal was defeated in 1942 by a vote voteof voteof voteof of forthe 59 127 against agamst and 32 638 for the amendment amendment _ _ |