New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-18

fore their third reading and while yet capaoe OF
amendment could be submitted for scrutiny b ana
only client the matter would be the state anH
whose on int hs, IN eaher
would become responsible to that body v,o,,od
Of secarims Competent persons to perform the duties
of counsel would be to leave their selection TO a
board of the he %
proper incompetent appointment could .htm W., lie
ss Would Tss he be
preciated. 1t would seem, too. that public oprT a
Mou astua practice lie s0S While leaving
change where II could be exercised II oes"a''''
Ls ras Manual sH
s mc the 10 tni es ali bills amendns either
vised Statutes the Codes or the Consoidauon avs
sion exists in the rules OF many States. Whenever
complied with, this provision has been found b PEN.
barrier against surreptitious changes IN e1s Ia
As mater of ,s or shs Sd
they adopted are not considered as having sne
binding sanction OF statute which ~ at The
Commission. therefore reports proposed amer %
ment to the legislative law containing the
therein enumerated the General Laws and the
of all 1ba shall
report certain classes Of bills within certain tine he
saoPsd but IN RTeSss tie
obligation on the legislature to comply therew tbIs
subject by providing that It shall be the duty OF
each of the several committees to consider and re-
mort without unnecessary delay upon the respective
hills and other matters referred to IL by the House.
Assembly Rule No 10 also requires a report on all
bills before a certain time. These provisions. now
ever as remarked. not complied with
The requirement that private bills shall be printed
sautary one II adopted in enforceable form.
The Commissioners have considered, only 10 dls-
miss the suggestion that relief from over-legis-
lation and careless lawmaking is TO be found IN
biennial sessions Of our legislative bodies. IL is
obvious that when IL is impossible under the exist
ing system 10 secure, even with annual sessions;
the time necessary for careful, deliberate and
painstaking work and when the pressure for legis-
iation even with annual sessions. Is beyond the
capacy of the Legislature to deal with it adequate
w. such pressure and the number OF bills would
manifestly be largely increased by biennial SEES
sions with a consequent decrease In the posslplhty
of passing carefully and deliberately considered
statutory enactments ,,, . ~.
sections OF the legislative law embodylng the rec
concentrations of the Commission.
The Commission is of the opinion that the rules
of the Senate and Assembly should provide That all
hills of private or local nature shall be on a
calendar known as the private and local calendar,
and that all bills relating to cities snail ne on q
calendar known the cities calendar, and that all
other bills shall be placed on a calendar known as
the general calendar that all calendars or biils
shall be printed and the desks of the members
that certain days shall be set apart FOR the con-
sideration Of the various calendars as above SUD
divided. But the Commission has not assumed 10
formulate rules upon these or other similar SUD
iects leaving that matter for the action or the TWO
Houses of the Legislature