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Show TWELVE SENATE BILLS PJBSEDjn WEEKS ( Four Proposed Measures Are Left on Calendar for Monday. COMMITTEES ACTIVE Corrupt Practices Act Ex-pected Ex-pected to Make Appear-ance Appear-ance in Day or Two. The law-making machinery of the I per house began to buzz last week, i I party caucuses were eliminated as I feature of the. daily programme. the first two weeks of the se, caucuses formed the greater pari senate calendar, but when they wer. pensed with early last week the stV ate committees were given an oportu- f nity to get into action. The sum total of the week 'a oner, ations was the introduction of twenty-four twenty-four bills, the passago of nine, the kill- ing of two and the withdrawal of one. Four proposed measures are left over for the calendar tomorrow as a starter for tho fourth week of tho session, and half ; a dozen or more are expected to be re- ' ported back by committees tomorrow for action Tuesday. Senate Summary. ! A summary of the activities of the upper houso during the first three weeks of the session follows: Senate bills introduced, 65; house bills introduced, 4; senate joint resolutions reso-lutions introduced, 2; house joint resolution reso-lution introduced, 1; house joint memorials me-morials introduced, 2; house joint memorials me-morials introduced, 2; senate resolution! : introduced, 2. 1 Senate bil!s passed, 12; senate bills killed, 2; senate bill tabled, 1; senate bill withdrawn, 1; senate bills on calender, cal-ender, 4; senate bills consolidated, 1; senate bills in committees, 44; house bills in committees, 4; senate joint resolutions reso-lutions passed, 2; house joint resolution (Continued on Page Twenty-two.) lELVE SWILLS ! PISSED IN 3 WEEKS (Continued from Page Twenty.) passed, 1; Rnate joint memorial passed, 1 ; H'iiat,e joint memorial in committee, 1; hoiuj joint memorial parsed, 1; house joi nt memorial in committee, 1 ; senate resolutions passed, 1. Bills in committees Commerce and industries, 7; judiciary, 10; appropria- t i on is and claims, 4; enrossin and eu-j rolling, J; education, 2; puhiic affairs, j 11; legislative reference, 1:2; agriculture, agricul-ture, 1; public h-jaith and labor, 1. Handles Sixty-five Bills. The legislative reference committee has kept pretty well up with the procession, pro-cession, or, rather, pretty well in ad- j vaneo of it. Of the total of sixty-five hills introduced, all but twelve havo been reported back to the committee. Of thin number, however, one bill, senate sen-ate bill No. 29, has been retained by the reference committee a few days ovor the limit. The senate rules provide pro-vide that the reference committee snail return all bills within five days. Senate Sen-ate bill No. L'0, by Dern, relating to the powers of city councils, has been in tho hands of .the reference committee since January 19. The most of the bills in the reference committee, however, are of comparatively recent date. The judiciary and public affairs committees com-mittees are prettv well crowded with work. Between tne two there are now twenty-one bills, somo of which are administration ad-ministration measures which will require re-quire considerable deliberation before thoy are returned to be acted upon by the senate body. Iu the public affairs committee are tho corrupt practices bill and the bill providing for a reapportionment reapportion-ment of the representative and senatorial sen-atorial districts. The corrupt practices bill is one of the measures pledged by the Democratic platform and the reapportionment reap-portionment is required by the state commission. Bills to Be Heard. Thrco administration bills are in the hands of the judiciary committee public pub-lic utilities, Clayton anti-trust and workmen's compensation bills. The judiciary ju-diciary committee also has the workmen's work-men's compensation bill presented by the employers' liability and workmen's compensation commission. All of these bills in both committees, except the Clayton antitrust bill, are somewhat lengthy, and several important provisions provi-sions are to be discussed before they are returned to the senate. The public utilities bill has been discussed dis-cussed some by the judiciary committee, commit-tee, but the hearings are yet to be held. It is probable that they will be begun this week. The workmen 's compensation bills also will probably come up for attention in committee if public utilities and prohibition are gotten out of the way. The committee on commerce and industries in-dustries is ''in. the limelight just now. because it has the Young prohibition bill from the lower house. Some' alterations altera-tions already have been made in the bill by the committee, but others are under consideration, and the bill is not expected to reach the senate floor for the final reading before Tuesday. Measures to Come Up. The initiative and referendum bill, another party measure, is about the only one of that class yet to be introduced intro-duced in the upper house. The preliminary prelim-inary draft has been practically completed, com-pleted, but its introduction has been delayed temporarily awaiting action upon the prohibition question. According Accord-ing to the terms of the initiative and referendum, the people are to be permitted per-mitted to vote on tne various laws if such laws are not passed by both houses with a two-thirds majority.. To avoid nny chance for a vote by the people on this proposition, the initiative and referendum probably will be kept in the pigeonhole until the prohibition bill has been safelv passed. Of tho fortv-oight bills in committee in the upper house, it is expected that practically all those of minor importance impor-tance will be reported back this week. The corruptpractices bill and the apportionment ap-portionment bill also are expected to make their appearance, but the indications indica-tions are that the public utilities and workmen's compensation bills may not come up for final action in the Benate before next week. |
