| Show TRYING TO ABOLISH THE SENATE i THE north dakota constitutional convention is wrestling with a ci proposition to have but one legisla j 0 tive body doing away with a ben sena ate or upper branch this whether it materializes or not is a decd decider decoded ded blow at a tradition that has descend ed to us from away back we ay hardly think that any one of thoa numerous statesmen about who so much to is being said can M mabrl such auch an objection command chef 1 respects respect let alone the attention ol 01 the thinking and reading portion of the community tradition as J 1 l factor in building a new west state the idea is pre the newest part of the new worlo worl leaning upon the habits and me merj taft of the older part of the 0 ol 01 worldly hardly J there are however arburne menta i and potent ones too against the proposition which are entitled hk serious consideration too mu mat compactness in legislative bo bod eads to confusion and the less this element that enters antol solons deliberations the better 7 them and the people they it is a recognized fact that t to 0 f faoiz bellu tate legislation even in Terr itoi r legislatures and city coonc th ok where the numbers are campf corn dively few there must be a breal up into committees each having ai certain measure of legisla legislative vve wa 06 I 1 dhority tho rity thus showing the necess necessity oi of having the work prepared final action by limited bodies greater ones would not be likel likely yi i arrive at conclusions or properly range the work so rapidly this T one argument against the 0 one ne proposition but it is kj only nor the chief one there are two separate cham there is likely to be less chancel chance corrupt and improper practices practiced ee body being a kind of check or orgia t upon the other how often la jj the case in all legislative bodini bodh from congress and RAWL down that a measure receive rec elvee or ak only thorough consideration in alj branch in which it did not 0 brigl origl ate and this being the case lt reasonable to su suppose apo se that me that was mischievous an and d imam imps was prevented which had ite been but tho the one branch have got through and been en engrafts eng grafts ed upon the body of the statutes at large jarge this is not a slight matter but bate a very serious one and since a now new state will for some years have more legislation to do and cruder material to work with than have the older ones it will be greatly to the interest of the former to establish additional rather than abolish old and reliable safeguards it rt was with a view to what we have herein suggested partly that the legislative authority in this country was divided it was not neoe necessarily marily in imitation of parliament mentor or any other body A large group of men who know that their work is final strange to say do no not t work as well as when it is not for one reason perhaps that the carefulness and watchfulness indicated by the knowledge that what they do wily be criticised criticized and corrected is wanting in the former case and in addition won to this sorry measure of a second house it was further ordained that the executive should be a final finai inspector a sort of proof eader as it were of the acts of congress and the number of errors ho he discovers after the wisdom of both branches of congress have duly and acted is truly won aeiful he too has stopped much that was mischievous from becoming the law of the land because one s man with one duty on hand is more lore likely to detect incongruities inconsistencies and incompatibilities is done than are a large number of men intent only upon bistu getting iadone it done in accordance with j ft definite plan the legislators betimes me times in their haste or zealor ft may be ignorance or neglect do not compare their word with the fat national ional charter the foundation and of their authority but Jh executive must nat fall to do so go in det this being his part of the vow he seldom falls fails oak keight Km might ight no doubt would be aiom mischievous to dispense with the on one e who finally revises and then enforces the laws thau to dispense with one of the recognized branches vt aj jogi legislation the question is why dispose of either even woh an all these three agencies jr acting in the direction of making C totted and d wholesome laws we have bad ones which 1 be obeyed until the power of wn another remedial agency the r bourth is invoked all AH the states Js have patterned substantially after u abe te general government in these re and yet with a house in ach measures are originated an other in which they are passed an executive who revises and courts which correct it still remains after all that there is here and there a law whose is a matter of grave question in the face of all these facts we should think north dakota would act wisely to take nothing away from what is but rather add something if the spirit of her people is that a change of some 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