 More trouble with the legislature struck Greenfield in August 1922 , during a special session called for the purpose of passing enabling legislation for a provincial wheat board . The session lasted only a week , and on August 31 the only item of business that remained was the members ' pay for the session . The government was proposing $ 100 per member , but some MLAs complained that this was insufficient in light of the long travel times between Edmonton and their constituencies . Greenfield , lacking the counsel of the vacationing Brownlee and wanting to avoid trouble , proposed upping the amount to $ 200 . Independent MLA Robert Pearson proposed increasing it once again , to $ 250 , to match what their counterparts in Saskatchewan had received . This suggestion was carried . While Greenfield had hardly been the driving force behind the increases , he had facilitated them and had been blind to the appearance of paying MLAs more for six afternoons of work than some farmers were able to earn in a year . The grassroots of his own party condemned the move , all the more so when the wheat board that had been the purpose of the special session failed to come to fruition . 
