Show 1 IT IS THE LAST WEEK I I Legislature Will Adjourn Next Saturday Night MANY BILLS YET REMAIN THE 3IEMBERS WILL HAVE JIARD WORK TO FINISH 1 Appropriation Bill antI Salary Mean I urea Are to le Dlncusscd Tlic S Revenue Bill 1 Still Vending in I the HOt Caiiaiire and Fish and Game are Waiting for Senate Action Ac-tion Educational Bill and County Hill Two Very Large 3Iensnres I on the Tables of the Two Houses i I Registration Lair Xot Yet Completed I Com-pleted II I I With the close of this week the first session of tlu state legislature also comes to an end The ensuing six days I will be eventful ones for there are j I many measures which remain to be I passed upon That the senate has come to realize there is no time to I waste is evidenced by the resolution t offered by Senator Sutherland on Saturday I Sat-urday that the session begin at 930 and continue until 630 with an hour and a half for dinner I is possible that evening sessions will be held also The counties bill providing for the government of counties etc will come up this week in the upper house haying hay-ing been passed by the lower I is useless to say that not much time I will b used up in discussing its proVisions pro-visions for that will not be the case by any means if the past actions of the I members are any criterion Once started the senate can do more good I talking than any collection of men on earth There are some matters in connection I con-nection with this bill which will bear investigation i reports be true Fees I are reduced and while this may be of I an advantage to the litigant in court it will bear heavily upon the taxpayer who will have to foot the bills in the end I endFor For instance it is asserted that the sheriffs fee for serving a summons which has hitherto been 250 it cut to 50 cents Other expenses are reduced re-duced in proportion This may be all right for the man who wants to go to law but the official mentioned declares this policy is going to be such as to render the revenue insufficient to pay all the expenses Inasmuch as the sheriff is now a salaried officer he can have no personal interest in the statement state-ment made I will be well in the opinion of many for the senate to look over care fully measures which are presented for passage during the closing hours The fish and game bill will come up todayon a second reading I is barely bare-ly possible that it may pass today but the probabilities are in the opposite direction The registration law is still on the calendar and several amendments amend-ments are ready to be presented The house will not get the measure until Wednesday at the best I Sutherlands bill conferring the eminent emi-nent domain right upon persons who desire to utilize the waters of the state I for the mining milling reduction and treatment of ores for the generating and transmitting o electrical energy I and other purposes is yet unread and will require some time for consideration considera-tion as Warner has stated he has I many amendments to offer i Then too there is the canaigre root bill I will cause discussion because the minority will not suffer it to pass I without a protest Of course protests will be futile the measure will go through despite all opposition but protests will be made in the name of I the people just the same I may be that the minority will content itself with having one member speak and I represent its views and thus save time This action in view of the late hours of the session would be a movement I move-ment in the interest of other legislation legisla-tion and would no doubt satisfy everyone every-one opposed to the system of bounty I paying as well as though many long drawn out speeches were made There are a number of matters which will have to be attended to In the first place the legislature will have to decide as to the matter of court stenographers The question is before the committee on judiciary of the senate sen-ate and has also taken form in a bill bi presented by Senator Candland Both these questions will come up this week I something is not done and that soon the state may find itself without court stenographers Up to date the desire to reduce expenses has been such as to retard a good bill on this measure Stenographers who are competent com-petent cannot be obtained everywhere every-where but some legislators do not seethe see-the point and evidently believe an efficient man can be secured for about what an expert farm hand would demand de-mand This mornings session of the senate will doubtless open with all the members I mem-bers save Mr Barnes who is ill present There have been many absentees I ab-sentees during the past two weeks At tme then was no possibility of pass I ing a bill owing to lack of numbers to make it effective As a result there I are a number of measures which will I be called up for a vote In the house thus fat haveJbeen introduced intro-duced 172 bills Of the number sixty I five have been killed twentyeight have I been passed and and bn approved enough more have been passed and are either awaiting the action of the senate or are in the hands of the governor to bring the number now pending down to about fly These must be passed upqn in some manner At the same ratio of time to each bill that ha been accorded accord-ed the 120 odd which have been disposed of many of the remaining bills will have I I to go by the board or else there will be some very hasty legislation enacted in these remaining days I I Aside from all this there are a great many senate bills which await thS action ac-tion of the house Among these are two which are alone almost enough to engage en-gage the full time of the house for the seven days remaining They are the general salaries bill which has already occupied more than a days time and the consideration is hardly commenced I and the revenue bill which has not a I vet come back from committee Then again there is the educational bill one j of the longest bills introduced which I has also had a full days time spent I upon it and which will require a great Ideal Ideal I-deal further consideration and that e Ij j j the most careful kind In the ordinary course of events a weeks time would tme not be too much to devote to these bills alone to say nothing of the other bills pending many of which are very important and o the fact that the appropriation ap-propriation bill has not a yet been introduce On this bill when i does come will in all likelihood occur the fight of the session This is sure to be the case unless the bill as presented is exceedingly exceed-ingly judicious in the appropriations it proposes There are many members of both parties in the house who are ready to oppose to the last ditch anything which appears like an unnecessary expenditure ex-penditure hence the consideration is bound to be long and it will no doubt I be interesting The bU will first be presented > I pre-sented to the house and Chairman Tom Fergusson of the house appropriations I committee 4ias it sufficiently well in hand to warrant the assumption that it will receive its first reading early in the week The salaries and educational bills will have the right of way when operations opera-tions are resumed this morning and each will likely receive its share of the attention of the house during the day and will unless it is decided to lay them over in favor of the large number num-ber of his now awaiting third reading read-ing and final action The revenue bill is expected to be reported re-ported during the day The senate begins be-gins holding evening session tonight and although the house has not so decided de-cided it will likely follow suit |