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Paul Moreno, D-El Paso, to the State Af fairs Committee. It’s that simple,” Moreno said. “It does not permit the average working person to come down here and serve in the Legislature.” The proposed legislation — which inrlndpc a rnnstuiition-)! r«m*»ndment requiring approval by Texas voters if passed by lawmakers — was sent to a subcommittee, along with measures to establish annual legislative ses sions. The Legislature currently meets in regular session for 140 days every other year, and changing that re quirement also would require a state constitutional amendment approved by voters. A measure by Moreno would pro vide for 120-day sessions in odd- numbered years to deal with general issues, and 60-day sessions in even- numbered years to deal with appro priations. Proposed legislation by Rep. L.B. Kubiak of Rockdale would set a 40-day budget session in even- numbered years and 100-day gen eral session in odd-numbered years. Both lawmakers said they are not firm on the number of days in each proposed annual session. But Ku biak added that he thinks the total number of days in session should not be increased if a pay raise is not pro vided “I think we all learned a lesson re cently when Congress tried to get a El Paso police say devil worshipers desecrated remains of judge, wife EL PASO (AP) — The remains of a prominent 19th century El Paso judge and his wife were removed from a tomb at historical Concordia Cemetery and dese crated by devil worshipers, police believe. The vandals burned one coffin and its contents and took the remains from a second cof fin. Police responded about 3 p.m. Sunday to a call that a grave at a cemetery east of downtown had been opened, Sgt. Celso Fonseca said. They arrived to find a tomb marked with the name “Crosby” opened. “One casket had been burned, with the bones in it,” Fonseca said. “The skull wasn’t burned. It was there on the end of a cross.” The skull, which had wisps of golden hair and a gold tooth, was found lying on the ground next to the tomb and apparently had been set atop an inverted wooden cross, police said. An inverted cross and other signs of Satanic ritual were found drawn on the outside of the vault, officer Thomas Duran Jr. said. The individual names and dates on the face of the tomb were obliterated when the stone vault was opened, Fonseca said. But it appears the vault was the burial place of Josiah F. Crosby and his wife, Josephine. Josiah moved to El Paso in 1852 and served as a pros ecutor, state legislator and district judge, El Paso histo rian Leon Metz said. During the Civil War, he was act ing quartermaster general for the Confederate army’s invasion of New Mexico. He lived in Houston and New York for short times before retiring in El Paso and dying in 1904. His obitu ary at the time said he was entombed at Concordia, the final resting place for some of El Paso’s most famous cit izens, including gunfighter John Wesley Hardin. pay raise,” Kubiak said. “I think we learned that the public in the state of Texas is not going to approve a pay raise.” Annual sessions are “critically im portant” to Texas, Rep. Jerry Yost of Longview said. Yost, co-sponsor of Kubiak’s bill, said lawmakers in the current system are “putting bureaucrats on auto matic pilot for 19 months without ,any legislative oversight.” “They know that we have to go through another election process,” Yost said. “Some of us may not re turn, some of us may not end up on the same committees that we were onbefore. “To me, it’s very debilitating working with an agency where you don’t have a continuing oversight process that allows for them to come back within your term of office and you have the opportunity to sit down and scrutinize what they’ve done,” he said. Pam Fridrich of Common Cause testified in favor of annual sessions and a pay raise for lawmakers. Lane Zivley of the Texas Public Employ ees Association also spoke in favor of a legislative pay increase. Also Monday, the committee left pending a proposal to ratify an amendment to the U.S. Constitu tion. The amendment would require members of Congress to stand for election before they can receive the benefits of a pay raise. PIZZA FREE DELIVERY 846-8268 Leaning Tower Special $4.99 PIZZA Limit 4 per coupon 12” 3-topping pizza & one Free 16 oz. Coke FREE DELIVERY 846-8268 Lun ch, Dinner wl & Late Night Bread Limit 4 per coupon Sticks 12” $5.11 16” $6.89 Ranch Dressing & Pizza Sauce Free STUDY ABROAD JR. FULBRIGHT Grants for Graduate Research Abroad Competition Now Open INFORMATIONAL MEETING Tuesday, March 7 2:00-3:00 p.m. 251 Bizzell West STUDY ABROAD OFFICE 161 W. 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