Milford chronicle., 1930-12-19
TGtnGU Asserts That
SOLOHS Are BLGMeLeSS
ECOntinned from Firsi Paqel

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the last session You will find the
claims bill carrying the salaries for
the House employees, barely passed
the House, there having been quite
a few Republicans voting against
it."
zone of the papers speaks about
the time wasted by the members go
ing back and forth to Dover each day
instead of staying at the capital
overnight and attending to the
States business. From my expert
ences, / have always found the
members more than willing to trans
act all the business that they have
before them, as very few of the mem
bers have any desire to prolong the
session more than is necessary, the
greater number of them serving at
quite a sacrifice to their own per-
sonal business interests.
During the last session of the
Legislature, there were any number
of days when the House met at IL,
recessed at -, met again at 2, and
adjourned for the day at 3. Under
these conditions, why stay in Dover
overnight to transact two hours
business?
"The ones VINO are responsible for
this are the public and the lawyers,
who wait until the last minute to
draw up their bills and present them
to the session. To stop this very
thing, the members of the last ses-
sion of the Legislature adopted a
resolution that no new business
would be received in the session af-
ter a certain date in February. Even
with this resolution and due to the
lack of cooperation on the part of
the public and lawyers, the members
Of the session were detained in Dow
er ten days longer than the al
lotted 60 days, for which they re-
ceived 10 compensation. With prop
er cooperation there is no doubt /
that the session of the General
Assembly could have completed its
business in record time. .
"The question of mileage also |
comes up in one of these editorials. !
This was thoroughly threshed out in |
the last session and as far as l am |
concerned will stay = as it is. This
same editorial further speaks of in /
creasing the members salaries. An /
amendment to the Constitution was |
prepared during the last session to |
increase the members pay to $15 per
day. This amendment, however, was
defeated. Does this appear as if the
members were trying to raid the
State treasury?
Another section of one of the edi-
torials states that although these
were four lawyers at the last session,
an error was made in passing an
amendment to the State Income Tax
Bill. 1 do not recall the details of
that right now, but l recall that an
amendment to the Inheritance tax
law was prepared by one of the lead
ing members of the State bar, and
was thoroughly explained to both
branches by the lawyer, in person. 1t
was passed in both branches, and
was finally approved by the COVER
nor. If there had been any glaring
defect in this bill, you can rest as
sured that Governor Buck would
never have affixed his signature to
it. The mistake was so trivial that
it took an expert on inheritance tax
matters to discover it.
Il am in no way trying to prove an
alibi for the members of the last ses-
sion, as they were all men OF high {
standards, and from what 1 observe 6
were working for the best interests
of the State. l only feel that the /
should change their tao !
tics and put the blame where it prop b
erly belongs, instead of continually +
criticizing the members of the Legis- Il
lature as a whole. find from per- O
sonal contact with the public, that o
he ones who knock the legislators v
hardest are the very ones who should
serve in the Legislature, but would o
lot make the sacrifice to do so un- C
ier any circumstances. Stop the a
continual 'panning and make the p
members feel there is honor connect ii
I'd with the job, and think you will p
get results" h