The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1923-06-09
STATE S0LONS HANDED OUT
LARCESS WITH FREE HANDS
Senators Especially, Voted Bonuses to Employees
in Closing Hours of Session-Many Worked
Hard While Others Wasted Taxpayers Coin.

from one end OF the year to the
other, were made a gift of $26 each.
Rose Cook, Eva Hoppenrath and
Kathryn Cramsie, switchboard oper-
ators, are paid regular salaries by
the telephone company. Those three
maidens must have been either very
proficient or else very easy to look
at, for the senate voted them a
present of $500 and the house $3.50
each, Christmas gift aggregating
$3.50 each.
Oscar Morse, legislative post
master, whose salary Of IS a day
is fixed by law, was donated $3.50
by the senate and $3.50 day by
the house.
Ellen Anderson worked In the
capitol office for the Western Union
Telegraph Co. The kindly old SELL
ate made the fair Ellen an out
and out present Of 5000. Tho house
chucked in $3.50 additional making
total bonus of $3.50.
Frances and Sadie Traynor pulled
down a regular salary as telephone
operators at the main switchboard.
A bonus Of 500 each was given
those popular hello girls.
In addition to his salary of IS
a day, mail-carrier Kull was voted
an honorium Of SIS. Duffy Either,
night Waterman, received SIS in
addition to his regular salary.
Edith Young. Anna Carlson.
Kathryn Lederman and Annie
Ryan, charwomen, or scrubwomen,
as the Yankees say, were voted
1925 each in addition to their
regular salaries. They probably
came nearer to earning the bonus
than some of the fIossier girls.
Anna M. Jackson, sen atoriaI ma
tron, dragged down $125 in addition
to her regular salary. Otto q. An
derson, assistant custodian OF tho
senate chamber, was forced to con-
tent himself with dinky little
bonus of SIS In addition to his
regular salary.
]. W. Johnson, a committee clerk,
received 5000 extra for the time
he put In az custodian Of the re-
cords and the evidence in the
Carley Investigation of political cam
paign expenses In the last state
election. He received no SLOUGH OF
salary as 1t was and q quarter
OF 5000 would have been ample
pay for all the extra work imposed
by the Carley probe.
Matthias Nuremberg, sergeant-at-
arms. was given $3.50 as extra
compensation for the few hours that
he devoted to serving subpoenas
and doing other light labor in
connection with the Carley ingesti-
CATION.
H. o. Halvorson, clerk OF the
judiciary committee, received q reg
ular salary of SO day. but he
got bonus Of $3.50 q day ad-
ditional.
Florence Reber, clerk OF the SEN
ate's finance committee, was hand
ed Bonus Of $3.50 q day in addi-
ton to the regular seasonal salary
Of SO q day.
NJ. P. LaFleur, second assistant
secretary; e. R. Jones, third as
slstant secretary; and H. l.. Fowler,
fourth assistant secretary, were
! made happy by q bonus Of SO q
day in addition to their respective
salaries Of 81 a day. G. H. Spaeth,
first assistant secretary, with a
fixed salary of SO a day, got big
enough a bonus to make his salary
$12.50 a day.
Henry Webster, enrolling clerk:
William Dwyer, engrossing clerk;
Harry Clarkson, clerk of several
committees; Annie Connors, clerk
Of the rules committee; Hazel
Berg, assistant engrossing clerk:
Marjorie Ka1dunzki, stenographer
to the enrolling clerk; and Georg-
lana Rosseland, stenographer to the
engrossing clerk, made up a goodly
bunch Of senate employees who got
lS7 day as a fixed salary and then