Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1905 — WHY MANY BILLS MUST DIE. [ARTICLE]

WHY MANY BILLS MUST DIE.

Obviously Too Many Are Pending for One Week’s Work. ludiuiiapolis News. That scores of bills will die in sight of the promised land at the close of the session of the legislature is indicated by the fact that in the House when this week opened there were 1135 House bills ready for action and 121 Senate bills. It is very doubtful if one-half of these bills can be passed by the House before the Legislature adjourns. The figures are furnished by Gr. O. Driscoll, reading clerk. Up to the opening of this week 191 House bills had been indefinitely postponed, 105 House bills had been passed, thirty-four Senate bills had been passed and fifteen Senate bills had been indefinitely postponed. A look at these figures will show why some of the Senators are nervous about their bills now pending in the house. Up to the beginning of this week 431 House bills had been introduced and 170 Senate bills had been received from the Senate. The record of the Senate shows that 175 Senate bills have passed and fifty House bills, as compared with 105 House bills passed in the House and thirty-four Senate bills. This indicates the greater expedition of work on the part of the Senate, due partly to the fact that the Senate is composed of one-half of the number of men. and is able, under its rules, to work faster. The Senate is well along with its work and is able to handle every matter that comes before it. After the session of the Legislature is closed and members return to their homes, many will be able to explain to their constituents that in the final rush of the session the measures which they had promised to see enacted into law were crushed out.