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Show SENATE TO SIFT OUT BILLS NOT LIKELY TO PASS In preparation for the prand "clean up" a.1 tho finish of the legislature,- the senate yesterday named a sifting committee to! go through senate bills still pending and 1 weed out the unimportant measures that I must be sacrificed in the closing hours j of the legislature to clear the road fori more Important legislation. I This action was takentpon 'motion of i Senator Olson, who called attention to ! the fact that such action would be neces- eary in order to facilitate business and ' enable the legislature to get through something like on time. , On the sifting committee President1 Funk named Senators Olson, Stanford, Southwick. Knight and Dern. The com-miLlee com-miLlee is to get busy at once and make a report as soon as possible. ! To further conserve time, Sanford moved that a limit of five minutes be! fixed for discussions and the motion car- j vied. On his motion the rule of the sen- I ate against "the previous question' was i suspended for the balance of the session, I and tliis means of choking off discussion wns restored. i On motion of Senator Chez the senate suspended the rules and opened tlie way j for consideration and passage of senate bills up U and including" two days before adjournment. The rules provided that no senato bill could be passed within three days of the end of the session. |