Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1920 — SHERIFFS ASK FOR MORE PAY [ARTICLE]

SHERIFFS ASK FOR MORE PAY

Plea to Be Presented by Committee to General Assembly. Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 24. —Sheriffs from twenty-five counties throughout Indiana met here Tuesday with W. W. Weinhardt, sheriff of Tippecanoe county, and prepared a plea which they will present to the legislature at its coming session, asking for

substantial increases in salaries and fees The sheriffs, who attended tbe meeting said that they were so badly underpaid that they can not even meet their running expenses with tne salaries and fees they are receiving. A committee will be appointed which will present their grievance to the general assembly In January.