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Show J0UR1LS 1H . RECORDS FOR SIZE Committees sm Revision of House and Senate Records Are Busy. The journals of each house of the state legislature will break all records for size this year. Kach journal will be fully one-third larger than usual. The revision committees of tho two houses arc working daily proofreading and revising the journals. They havo progressed far enough to indicate that the journal of each house will contain moru than 700 .pages, about 200 more pages than last. year. Moro bills were introduced in tho last legislature than at tiny previous legislature and moro were passed than at any legislature except ex-cept the lirst one. The official record with referenco to each bill introduced and passed is a long one and the copy of the communications communi-cations between tho two houses and the governor with referenco to the progress prog-ress of the- bills all appears in the journals. jour-nals. This long record occupies much space in tho journal and occasions a larger volume than heretofore. Secretary J. A. Edwards, Docket Clerk Benjamin Bachman and Minute Clerk C. 1J. .lones are revising tho senate sen-ate journal. Speaker 10. W. JJobinaon, Chief Clork V. II. Thompson and Docket (Work A. L, Toone are revising thu liouso journal. |