Show WHY LEGISLATIVE WORK IS CROOKED Trickery crr and carelessness at al the pod nd of legislative is h the sub of article In an Eastern mas mag agine In which It is shown that in but tow fow are arc these weaknesses In legIslation guarded against Utah has had an experience with both the scheming and the thc care in legislative enactments It Is related that thal In one or of the recently the tho legislature enacted n C law to mako it a punishable offense fOI employers to I keep women em at work ork more than 64 54 hours a week The Thc bill 1111 signed by the governor but within two days after actor It had become a statute the discovery was made nade that errors of oC the tho engross engrossing ing ng clerks ha had completely nullified It The facts as nearly as can he be seem scam to be that the thai Inal bill passed by the tho house or of rep representatives was SO o amended In the that the tho law would not be luring during the months or of No and D December The amend ent was written on a slip or of paper which become lost In the ma mass s or of ma material that lIml accumulated at the close of the tho session and when the bill was engrossed the amendment was not added adde It was therefore sl signed cd Jr by be presidIng officers of the two houses housea In Its original shape and was so sent to the tho governor The er error makes the la inoperative and the only manner In which the tho mistake can be corrected Is h by the tho introduction tion and passage of 01 nIL an entirely new newbill bill This can not bo be done dono for two years ears as the legislature will not be beIn beIn In session until 1911 Erro of this sort are h by no means They Thoy Yon very often make mako ineffectual long IonS legislative tights In or of reforms In state slate of the tho Union It Is declared that tho legisla legislature ture never adjourns without or four such mistakes being beluS discovered and nd on one occasIon more mora than a score of bills wore ore found to bo be defective be because because cause they had not leou properly en enrolled enrolled rolled Sometimes carelessness Is re rc responsible Sometimes trickery Is re In eIther much is wasted and great is 15 done t the e peoPle It Is manifest that there ought to bo be some system by whIch both bOLh errors and trickery of this sort could he pre prevented vented A commIttee charged with th tb dr direct ct l I oI f bills at the e I otc each might nIh overcome I this I |