| Show I 1 i Z J JAY lav PA OF TJ S JUDGES IN the U S house of representatives en on tuesday April 25 in the tile course of consideration of ohp the legis lativa appropriation billi e compensation pensa tion of the judges in tho the territories ri was discussed the compensation being fixed at 2500 per annum in the bill this small sum was ani ant ma adverted u P i ml members as being entirely anade y MA 1 fajt z quate on mr cannons Cannon ts remark icah imah ing lug that it waso yapo vapo considered in utah and lb that at consequently enily the legislatures Legis latureo of the thi territory yat tat att its last session had bad appropriated 1000 to each of the judges as additional compensation thib this remark arolia aroused ed the ire of mr nin hoar who submitted I 1 an amendment that no judge of a territory sh should ouid receive any aily other othe r compensation than that provided by congress which was wits agreed to thero there would be no objection to this if the compe compensation mation matlon provided by congress were reasonable but the figures named are unreasonably small pitifully small for the income of a gentleman and a scholar schol arand and a judge of ability and experience as all judges for the territories should be if an able a and nd experienced judge consents to serve for such a salary it must be either with the hope of additional consideration of some kind a desire to serve his country it Is ls well enough for congress to be economical where economy is desirable and beneficial but good service bervice should be fairly paid for and not starved neither is it good economy to stint the pa payment ment for important service andtius and ahus thus indi t estly impel officials to eek seek for additional dit lonal ional pay in a clandestine way if they get it at all what harm could have come if the tho house hoube had bad been deter determined to only pay the judges so much and had bad left the legislature of the territories to please them themselves selves belvea whether or not they choso chose to tote vote any additional pay As it is the house Hous eill elii will neither pay ther appropriate liberal lisa ilea itself nor allow it to come from any other legitimate source unnecessarily rigid rig i ld economy this |
