The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-06
A SUBSTITUTE
FOR SALARY BILL
A Thousand Dollars For
Governors Expenses.
OPPOSED IN HOUSE
Expected That the Bill Which Will Be
introduced by Senator Scales in
Senate Today viii Pass That
Body, But The Issue in the
House is Doubtful.


crease of the salaries of the Cover
nor and the various justices and
judges of the Supreme and Superior
Courts, which We're introduced in the
Senate on Wednesday have been the
cause of more comment and discus
measures which have yet been intro
duced into the Legislature.
The reason for the Importance at
tached to this legislation is tWo-fold.
| First, because in the case of the pro-
posed increase in the pay of the Gov
ernor there is a we'll founded impress
! Governor Glenn, the increase, if
made, must be provided for in bill
which shall pass the two legislative
bodies before his Inauguration, there
! being a Well-reasoned doubt as TO
whether an increase made subsequent
| ly to his entrance upon the duties of
ms once Wou>d be a legal measure.
| And, secondly, because of the very
strong and positive sentiment among
! a number of the members and dis
tinguished gentlemen throughout the
! State that the present salaries, espe-
| cially for Judges, are SO inadequate
as to make the accordance of the po-
| SltlOnS Dy competent men uTneceS-
! saril heavy financial burden.
1t Will be remembered that the sal
airy bills so far introduced are those
of Senator Ward. which provide that
! the. salaries of both Supreme Court
| justices and judges Of the Superior
| courts be fixed at the sum of $500,
and the blanket bill of Senator Scales,
| providing as a salary for the Chief
| Justice $4,000, $4,000 each for the
and $500 travelling expenses for the
! Judges OF the several Superior courts
and a5,000 for the Governor of the
State.
While the proposition for the in
crease Of the salary of the judges has
met so far with little expressed OPP
position, the proposal with regard to
the raising OF the salary of the Gov
| ernor has been more widely criti
| cized, SO that ii was understood last
| night that the provision of the Scales
bill respecting the salary of the chief
| executive of the State would nor be
urged upou the Legislature in its
present shane.
In lieu OF that provision a number
| of gentlemen, who have the matter
much at heart, now propose TO intro
| duce as a substitute q bill which shall
contemplate the payment merely OF
| those expenses which are incident To
| the office and the functions of the
! GoVernorship. such as travelling ex-
! penses and expenditures which every
/ governor finds it necessary to make
| in the proper salaries.
| Second. Performance of the obli
cations Of the office. This bill which
| A-ill "arrv an appropriation of 1000,
| will be directed TO the Office and not
| to the encumbent. and will be de-
! signed, in brief, to the payment mere
| ~ Of the expenses which may proper
| ly be included as Incidental thereto.
The bill will be introduced this
morning in the Senate by Senator
! Scales ~~7 1t is understood that it
| will pass that body witt~--t any seri-
| Gus opposition, being placed on the
calendar. put through it's several
/ readings and sent 10 the house with
out engrossment. 1t is in the lower
! house that the fate of the bill will be
| decided, and this is problematical is
! admitted even by those who are most
| enthusiastic in its behalf. It's refer
ence to committee in the house is
| almost certain and. regardless of what
| the report may be there will be
/ fight on the measure when it comes
! to be argued upon the floor.
AS to the judges salaries it seems
| to be pretty we'll conceded that the
! bills providing for their increase will
/ with immaterial amendment. The
! bill that will be most strongly urged
| will be that introduced nv Senator
| Scales, and the question will perhaps
receive itself into d selection between
! that bin (providing for the $4,000
| salary for chief justice the $4,000 for
/ the Associate Supreme Court Justices
and the, practically, $4,000 for SUI
! perior Court Justices) and the Sow
! aral bills of Senator Ward, making
| the salaries of all judges equally
! $500.
| As 2 matter of fact the difference
! between the two bills is not as great
| as it appears. for the Ward bill will
/ leave to all the Judges the present
/ allowance of $3.50 for travelling ex-
/ penses, eiven them in 1899, while the
| Scales bill definitely fixes the salaries
! nf each class respectively. Thus
Under the present law all Judges re-
ceive as total salary, including the
| travelling allowance S2.750 so that
under tho Ward bill they would re-
| ceive $3.50 instead of $4,000. as
| Scales II is pointed ont by the
friends of the Scales bill that the
| Scales bill that the measure is one
which VIII settle the matter definitely,
tut that it will remove from the law
with regard TO Judges compensation
! on inequality that exists at present
which is stated to be unfair TO the
/ Superior Court judges. AS the law
stands all judges receive the extra
compensation of $3.50 for travelling