The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-05-23
STATE House
EMPLOYEESMAY
ALL GET RAISE
AMENDMENTS TO GENERAL AZ
PREPARATIONS BILL PROVIDE
FOR 10 PER CENT INCREASES IN
MOST CASES.
az HERRERT FELkEL.l

Tallahassee. May 22.-Talxing the po-
sition that salaries have been unive--
sally raised as result of the increased
cost Of living and that efacient men
and women cannot be obtained with
out proper compensation. Chairman d
81 Lowry. of the senate appropriations
committee. has secured the adoption
of a number of amendments to the
general appropriation bin that win. if
concurred in by the house, raise state-
house employees who now are drawing
exactly what they received ten ard
fifteen years ago.
Most OF the increases We're ten per
cent. Senator Lowry offered the neces-
sary amendments to the various items
while the bill. which was special
order for today at eleven o'clock. was
read by sections, and he made the mo-
tions to adopt. practically all of which
were successful More than an hour
was consumed in the consideration IF
this bill, which was sent to commit
tee to have the amendments cngrosssd
into it after its consideration had been
concluded. Senator Lowry also o.
posed efforts to- reduce salaries, and
was for the most part, successful.
The bill itself, as brought in by the
committee, provided for a number OF
increases. and attempts by senators to
bring these salaries back to what they
were two years ago, failed.
An effort to keep the salary of the
governors executive clerk and assista It
secretary at twelve hundred dollars q
year instead of raising her to fifteen
y
esmilar amendment to prevent the pro-
posed increase of the governors stem
cgrapher from ninety to a hundred doll
| lars a month.
Senator Rowe Offered an amendment
TO strike from the bill the section seek
I ing to create the Office of assista,n t
chief clerk to the comptroller at a sal
| airy of twelve hundred dollars a year
Senator Lowry said this department of
the state government was growing and
the work of each attache increasing,
| Speaking for the Rowe amendment
enator Singletary said. IF we ran :
own business like we run the states
X e would bust wide open. We ought to
see that the clerks who don't do their
share work more, and then we could
| reduce expenses instead of increasing
! them TIE number of clerks oug't
! to be decreased, if anything, he thought
/ The amendment was lost and the ad-
| ditional clerk as provided for in thI
/ BILL will be allowed The number of
/ clerks for the supreme court was rs-
| duced from seven to five. giving each
i justice one if he cares to use same
/ An amendment by Senator Mac WI
| l:ams requires that one night watch
man look after both the state house
i end the supreme court building. The
| original committee bill provided for
i watchnan for each building. Thi:
/ amendment, which was adopted, wi
mean a saving of eighteen hundre.
dollars, it was stated.
| Senator Oliver succeeded in amend
ing the military appropriation SO as t
I,rovide for repairs to the arrnory build
4 ing at ApaIachicola not to exceed ST,
hundred dollars.
An effort hy Senator Singletary :.
| strike from the bill the appropriation
| of s11,5oo for reorganizing the Ma
| tfonal Guard, provided congress au
| thorizes same, failed.
| Senator Johnson offered an amenc
ment which was adopted. changing tn
! clause that provided for all unused az
nropriations to be made continuing ap
| uropriations. to require that all unuse.
| appropriations or parts of appropria
| lions should revert back to the stat
treasury.
Senator Lowry then offered amend
ments which were adopted, makin
sections two and three conform to tn
! changes made in section one, and tn
measure went to the engrossing room
1t probably will pass the senate in it
present form, as amended this morn
ing, but that alterations the hous
will make cannot be foretold.