They have had many additional duties within the last few years put upon them by the Congress. We have had four additional constitutional amendments passed in the past 10 or 12 years. all imposing additional duties on Federal judges. The income tax law. the Volstead law. the immigration law. the bankruptcy law. and other Federal laws passed in recent years have made all the Federal judges in the land busy. They ought to have sufficient salaries to give them a reasonably good living. so that their minds might be free from financial troubles while passing upon cases coming before them. It is true that in some States judges do not receive even as large salaries as our Federal judges now receive.
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