HIGH HONOR BUT NO PAY

Evening Star, Issue 18046, 14 August 1922, Page 4

HIGH HONOR BUT NO PAY

LIEDTEXAXT-GOVEENOE'S PLIGHT.

Press Association-By Telegraph—Copyright.

NEW YORK, August 12,

(Received August 14, at 8 a.m.)

A high position, but no funds. That is the status of Mr Pelham Barrows, Lieu-tenant-Governor of the State of Nebraska, who is also working as a live-dollar-a-day strike guard for tho Burlington Railroad. Being Lieutenant-Governor, he said 1 he had honor, tout no remuneration. “I took new work when Airs Barrows found that w r e had 340 cents in the bank and I had 110 cents in my pocket. Without another cent in the world I had to lake this work, since I could not get any other, and my wife and I were down and out.” Tho Lieutenant-Governor under the Nebraska law receives no remuneration, save as presiding officer of the State Assembly. For this he receives 1,200 dollars during tho biennial sessions. When he is acting in the absence of Die Governor he claims that he should receive the emoluments pertaining to that office. The last Assembly, however, rejected an Appropriation Bill providing for that, and there are no funds to meet Air Barrows’s claim for 1,800 dollars for serving as acting Governor recently.—A. and N.Z. Cable.