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Show THE FAKING LEGISLATURES Most of tho stntes get rid of their legislatures as Boon as possible. They set a limit on tho number of days their lawmakers may remain In session, ses-sion, ranging from forty days In Wyoming Wy-oming to sovcnty-flvo days In Tennessee. Ten-nessee. Sixty days Is the favorito Alabama, which does without a legislature leg-islature for four years, will not permit per-mit It to sit moro than fifty days oven when It meets. Thero aro only sev- I onteen states wnlch allow their legislature leg-islature to sit as long as thoy please nnd, of course, New York Is ono of them. Since no calamity has befallen befall-en tho commonwealths which havo been dispensing with their legls'o-tures legls'o-tures so far ns poslblo, it Is llkoly that tho tendency will increnso and that ' annual legislatures nnd unlimited sessions ses-sions will become oven scarcer than I they nro. New York Times. |