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The Battalion
Page 5
Bill would increase legislative salar ies
AUSTIN (AP) — Lawmakers’
S600 monthly salary prevents many
Texans from considering service in
the Legislature, the sponsor of a
measure to raise legislative salaries
to$l,000 a month told a House com
mittee Monday.
“The only reason you and I are
here is because we can afford it,”
said Rep. 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.
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