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Show uil.-il J.Jw 1 t LJwJolt Hern!: S:ss!:n cf Senate and IIcusc Will L: tlip Order WitMa Two. Weeks. The Opening of the third week of the Legislature finds both houses ready for hard and steady work. Thalthe afternoon after-noon sesnlona. will be much longer than heretofore Is now anticipated aa ' the tide of bills to ba considered has begun to flow back from the committee rooms. ' While It la probable that within another an-other two wek -mrw1nreonsof the Legislature will be bld. committee commit-tee meetings are now occupying the earlier hour of the day and the laie afternoons when the regular sessions have adjourned. Ai , While the Senate committees are in session none of the' members or tnai body has any spare time as each i Senator Sena-tor belongs on half a score of committees, commit-tees, and goes from one conference w Another. In the House some of the Representatives Represen-tatives are not burdened with so many appointments, but each ' member has work in hand and about half of tne legislators were at their desks during the morning attending to correspondence correspond-ence or looking up proposed measures for presentation. The Judiciary and Salary committees are In Joint session this afternoon, considering con-sidering the bills to raise the salaries of the Supreme Justices, the District Judges and the Supreme court stenographer. stenog-rapher. These committees will also take up the measure intended to abolish abol-ish the office of District Attorney throughout the" State. A committee from the Bar association and the seven District Attorneys of - the State will be heard before the session is closed. Senate Committees on Agriculture. Irrigation and Live Stock are in session this afternoon and the Committees oil Manufactures and: Commerce, and County and Municipal Corporations will meet tomorrow. , , The House Committees on Federal Relations, education and Art, Judiciary. Judi-ciary. Publlo Lands and Revenues and Appropriations are in session this ai-ternoon. |