Deseret Evening News | 1906-12-26 | Page 1 | Congressmen's Salaries

SALARIES Is 1 a Statute or of orI Pay I When Washington Det Dee Jo Jomn n Wesley Gaines who I ii In flor favor ot of i t enacting 1 a nw new statute din ding that shall hl forfeit torrelt for avery day they are absent announce that a as a Ii 1 lt putt Bult or of n a lench search the old dOcu ments itt at tire the l CapItol ho he IU found that a it statute d 11 iii 6 which prohibits nb 1 sent lent member members trel rena collecting their ul sal aries ulu unless they are kept from their or of ea I duties b by I illness I nel 11 has tracer never been I repealed An attempt was made to in I tn force this law Iw ho say In tim tho Fifty m se second nd Congress which resulted Fn lit In strenuous Ous to repeal the statute ip In I i un lIlt when tire Democrats bird control ot of th the h house will call L tb or of Congress to time wi statute hi It ho says pars and Insist that It be enforced i