Lawyer for ex-Senator Berry makes claim for pay before Judiciary Committee. Washington, , Representative Tom Connolly, Carl A. Hatch, Hansel Proffitt, and Pat Harrison, Representative from Mississippi, at the meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee today. Mr. Proffitt is a lawyer representing George L. Berry, defeated for re-election to the Senate in the last election in Tennessee, and claims that Berry's salary should be paid up until his successor, Tom Stewart, took the oath of office. Under the present law, a Senator's pay is stopped when he is defeated at the polls, 1/17/39

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