Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-09-23
EXTRA SESSION TO COST MUCH.
Soions and Employees Will Draw
About $1,25O Per Day.

III mas Deen estimated that the cost
OF an extra session of the Legisla-
ture will be between 81 900 and
$3.50 a day, including the salaries
of the members of the General AS
sembly, House officials, Senate Off
cials and a conservative allowance
for printing and the engrossing de-
day would be paid out in salaries,
but the law does not require a men,
Der of the General Assembly to ac-
cept his salary. The running ex-
penses per day, it is thought, will
amount to at least $500, depending
largely on the expenses of the en-
crossing department.
members of the General Assem-
bly, when convened in extra session
shall receive the same compensation
as is fixed by law for the regular ses-
sion," says the Constitution Of South
Carolina (Article 3, Section 19); and
the compensation for the regular ses-
sion is fixed by statute at 5000 and
mileage at 5 cents per mile, going
and returning
Each member Of the General AS
Sembly is entitled to draw for his at
tendance on the extra session the
sum Of $500, plus mileage A num-
Der OF vacancies, however, exist at
this time, due variously to deaths,
designations and other causes. For
instance, there are TWO vacancies in
the Richland county delegation, one
due to the resignation Of the Sena-
tor, f. II. Weston, upon his nomina-
ton to be United States District At
torney; the other due to the death
of Representative p. II. YOumans.
shortly after the adjournment Of the
last session.
Section Is, Code of 1912, Volume
I, is as follows:
members Of the General Assem-
bly, shall receive as compensation for
their services the sum Of $500 for
each regular session and mileage at
actual distance travelled. in the most
direct route Going and returning
from the place Where the session of
the General Assembly shall be held :;
and the Speaker of the House Of Rep
resentatives shall receive a salary of
500 per session in addition to his
compensation as a member"
1t is provided, also, that "in case
Of an extra session of the Legisla-
ture, the assistant clerks receive the
same pay as members of the General
Assembly,"
The expenses in the House are es-
timated as follows: Four officers at
SIS per day, $50; three door-keepers
at So per day, 50; five pages at So
per day, $40; seven laborers at So
per day, SIN; nine clerks at $5 per
day, $45.
For the Senate there would be four
officers, four door-keepers, two pages,
four laborers and seven clerks. These
at the same salaries paid the en-
ployees in the House makes a total
expense per day Of $40.
In the appropriation bill of 1914
the clerk of the Senate was paid
1000; assistant clerk, $500; jour
nal clerk, $3.50; reading clerk, $500;
sergeant-at-arms, $500; bill clerk,
1925. There were also clerks for
the various committees, receiving sal
aries of $500 to $3.50. The same
salaries were paid to the correspond
ing officials in the House. These
items do not include the services of
chaplains, extra clerks, mail carriers
or private secretaries to the Lieuten-
ant Governor and Speaker of the
House. Furthermore, the sum of
$64O was appropriated in 1914 for
expenses common to both Houses.