The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1913-12-02


custom which should have been
since abandoned, and which has been
abandoned almost everywhere else.l
4. That the House shall meet an
hour or more earlier than in the past,
the time thus gained and the early
days of the session, so far as may be,
to be devoted to the reference and
first reading of bills. Few commit
tee meetings are held in the morning,
and, especially since the increase of
the per diem to $1,000, it shauld be
no hardship for business men, or for
any other man serving his people in
| representative capacity or enough
account to be there, to observe what
are considered ordinary buineSs hours
at home.
| 5. We should be just before we
are generous, and, with the idea that
the same rigid business principles
should obtain in public as in private
affairs, and that, while each depart
ment or worthy activity Of the State
should have it's fair proportion of the
available revenues, no expense should
| be incurred without providing funds
to meet it the appropriation commit
tee shall in effect be made "Budg-
ct Committee" to which shall be re-
Iferred all bills and resolutions con-
tanning appropriations, or involving
expense, before they can come up for
final action.
6. That bills shall be printed in
the order in which they are intro
duced and, under such penalties as
will get results, copies of every bill
shall be on the desk of members not
less than five days after their ref
erence.
T. That, except upon a majority
or two-thirds vote, no bill shall be
introduced after twenty days of the
session has expired, and that at the
end of thirty legislative days, if it
then appears that, the work of the
session would be enhanced by such
action, both Houses shall adjourn for
month and then re-conve9e. This
would give opportunity for hearings
on all important bills-probably for
the passage of some of them before
the recess-and for such leiSurely
study of, and for conference with
specially informed constituents about,
all pending measures during the re-
cess as should be most advantage
Gus.
8. That Kentucky, and especially
it's General Assembly, has had enuogh
of personal and factional policies to
last a long time, and efforts to inject
!. the aspirations or candidacy of indi-
viduals or factions for future prefer
ment, upon what should be astrictly
business session, will be looked upon
with disfavOr
Such program as is here Outlin-
lined, modified as may seem best af-
ter full discussion and criticism
ought to go long way in securing
ample time for the sane and orderly
consideration of every important
measure to come before the session
, without the rush and confusion of the
, past, which have often proven sc
, dangerous to the interests of the PEG
pie, and for which an antiquated, vi
, cious system rather than individuals
is to be blamed.
, The legal questions involved in the
proposed adjournment and all the 9th
err changes have been submitted to
and passed upon favorably by the At
torney General. The suggestions are
made purely in the public interest
and, in the light of the work to be
. done, are at least entitled to earnest
consideration. There is no pride Of
opinion back of them, and if some
other member will propose a better
plan it ought to be favored instead