The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-03-05
SESSION EXPENSE
FOUND TO HAVE
BEEN S183,707
OF This $4,000 Was Paid to
Employees
SCHEDULE OF PAYMENTS
OF the Money Paid Out Large Part
Is For Service In Departments But
some Is Pure Gratulty.

Montpelier, March Sew people
in the state realize the fact that the
per diem and mileage of the miscel
laneous employees at the state house
during the recent session of the Gen
eral Assembly amounted to S92, 101.7!
and a large part of this was provided
for by special resolutions introduced
mostly just before the Thanksgiy lne
recess with a few more added dur
ing the closing days. The miscel
laneous employees include doorkeep
ers, pages, clerks. stenographers
sweepers, etc. Probably two thirds
TO three quarters of the total is fol
regular service and the remainder
represents gratuities voted. 1t should
be borne in mind that this las in
cludes many of the hardest worked
employees of the state.
The highest paid official for tn,
session was the executive clerk in
the governors Office who received
while on duty s15.55 a day, greater
salary if paid the year round, at this
rate than the judges of the Supreme
court The statutes provide that this
clerk shall receive 500 for the bi
ennial term, but under the resolution
where his name was inserted by
amendment in the Senate, he shared
on the same proportionate basis as
the clerks and secretaries of the
House and Senate.
The executive clerk drew $13S4.9S
and still has $500 coming before his
term expires. The clerk of the
House drew $1550.53, the secretary
of the Senate $113175, while the lieu
tenant governor received S1U2S and
the speaker 1858. They receive the
same per diem but the speaker lives
only ten miles from the capital so
his mileage was less. In the figures
given below where the employees OF
the same class are paid differently
the variation Is due to the difference
in mileage.
The executive clerk is the legal
clerk Of the governor and his duties
include the reading OF all bills passed
and critical examination OF them IN
comparison with existing laws anu
the constitution in order to AID IN ,
governor in his consideration OF the
measures. 1t Is his job to look out
for defects and call them to the at
tention of the governor and attorney
general. .o ,ho
. since adjournment, and before, the
resolution was the object oil much
curiosity. 1t was similar in the nam
IN others which have been lntroddc-
cd in the past for extra compensa-
ton for the clerks, their FORMER pay
being based on session OF 40 Jay .
AS there was a question whelher the
extra pay for the executive cioi n
should be figured on the Dasis vi
s90o which he was paid on the rising
of the General Assembly, as tne
statutes read, or 500, which Is ms
salary for the biennial period, the
attorney general was asked by lne
and,tor for an opinion before any
u,ore money was paid, and the at
torney general replied that ne con
sidered the resolution entirely pldih
ona exnlicit. and then continued
.sro illustrate. take the case OF lhe
o~oon,,ve clerk appointed by the gov
ernor. BY section 6lSS oil the puo
lIe statutes, his salary is hNeu az
300. Under the resolution "a
salary should be divided by 40 anu
the result multiplied by the nunls ,s
of davs computing from ana lnciuu
to ,he second day of December lsA@
10 the end of the session. 400
Tho cost of the session was Sioo,-
7o7 7s BELOW is given the saiaiy
and mileage drawn by each s.a.e
,,,niove outside of members
OF the Legislature: ego Az
A w. Ford, chaplain. ..'.'' $40 90 90
]. o. Kendall. doorkeeper.' 'V' "
c. w. Steele, assistant uoor' s,7 90
keeper ........'''
Messengers- ao7 AZ
Frank D's 49, Cornwall. 500 90
Malvern Ellis, St Johnsbury oVs w
Phinp wiz Nawnort 533 as
a Cameron, Norton.....' eSZ 10
oHe. Of Sergeant alarms
Herbert E. Slayton. Mont
heller ........-... -, %
n II Beard. waterville.... oil ~
Howard BroWn' SUI 500 rs
lngt1n ,.n Eair Haven. 545 80
q NJ. Bretlols foAh
Secretary OF States offee-
pswson C. Myrick, Bridport $40 %
state Treasurer's OFFICE ,-,s
Petrtha L. Lindsey. $500 ''O 90
state Library ,-e *
clair Templeton, Montpeher 40 %
Howard W. Adams, YER -,
ganuqe ....-..-..--
e.s,ceer Department -
n ]. Dwinnell. Montpeiier'. s.e -
lanes Burke ....-.-.-...'' "
Carpenter ..-.rv
". n. Montague, Waterbury 40, so
Center ....-......
Waterman .-e *
Ira Edison. Montpelier. 40 %
s~veepers- 80 *
run n. Peck. Montpelier. 80 30 30
e n Ltchhe'd. Coventry. sss ~
John W. Sexton, Montpelier 80 - 81
n. Eaton. Fayston- ----..- - ~
Arthur f White, Montpelier 40 %
Executive Department
tsarTey Z. GOOden, Mhiuhe- -. a
ham ..---.-.--.- - -
Mavben H. Hin. Ludlow. SSl %
yosu W. Hm Montpelier a7s $