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The secretary of the House states
| that he asked for bids for publishing
the journal For some reason unknown
to your committee, the Bulletin Pub
fishing Co. was the only publishing
house that put in a bid, which was at
s210 a page. The Senate has received
several bids for publishing their sour
nal in book form, one of which from
Robert Grieve is S1.3S a page, with an
agreement to give bonds that the work
will be done according to specifications.
In regard to placing the length of
the session at fifty-six days, we, would
say that the last special session for
passing appropriation bills was fifty
six days. This gives, in our opinion,
ample time for the work of this ses-
sion.
The expenses of the regular and spe-
cial sessions of the Legislature last
period amounted to 94,654.94. Previous
to that date the most expensive Legis-
lature on record was about $4,000.
The expenses of this Legislature will
probably be as follows:
Senate EXpenses-Expenses of the
regular session and two special ses-
sions, one of which was held last
November to consider the Governors
appointments. total 100000
House Expenses-The expenses of the
House according to the present out
look, will undoubtedly be, for the reg
ular and this special session, about
So. 900.
Your Committee recommends that the
appropriation in this bill be amended to
read SIS, 900. This is in our opinion,
much too large an appropriation for
the expenses of the House, and it is
with reluctance that we recommend
this amount.
Respectfully submitted,
(Signed) H. p. BALDWIN,
]. d. PARIS,
n S. E. KAIUE.
+ President Crabbe called attention to
the fact that if the Legislature was to
be in session fifty-six days as re-
ported by the committee the Senate
would have but ninety-six dollars for
expenses after paying salaries.
NO SHOW FOR SENATE
Senator Baldwin replied that he did
MT see any need himself of sitting for
rfty-six days but that was how long
it took the last legislature to act, and
he was making an outside allowance.
IL NOu d4lON l4Ie I1OuSe lLdl
remarked Achi, Il think the Senate
will need some more"
I'VE can put in another BILL sug-
gested Senator Cecil Brown.
Yes but they won't pass it," SAID
McCandIess.
Senator Dickey moved to lay the re-
port on the table to be considered with
the bill. Il don't agree with the COM
mittee entirely" he said, ''one item of
$500 for printing the journal of the
House is too much. When we get bids
at S1.3S per page. why should the House
give $40 a page? I don't believe in
giving holus bolus that way. If the
House can't keep its contract, it can't
do it, that is ALL
TOO MUCH FOR PRINTING.
Il regret very much that amount for
printing" said Baldwin, but we can't
do anything with the House contracts.
1 viii say that I had the report writ
ten some time back, shortly after the
bill was referred 70 this committee, but
1 have been holding it TO find out more
definitely what the House wanted. /
don't believe the Senate was as liberal
~ disposed at that time. 1 hardly think
it right for the House to ask for more
than double what the Senate wants.
expected that their expenses would be
double ours and when in the regular
session We asked $4,000 and they asked
$4,000 had no objection. But here we
ask 5000 and they want four times
that amount. The Republican party IN
the Senate doesn't think they should
be asking more than double what is
spent here
Senator. NIcCandless said he was sur
prised at the statement that the Senate