Weekly journal-miner., 1915-07-08
BURDEN AT LAST
 LIFTED FROM TAXPAYERS

II1OENl X, June ES.- l ne SeCOnt extra session of the second legislature came to an end Monday night al l0:45 o'clock. It was not certain until the middle of the afternoon that the session would not run over an other day. But the appropriation fol the current and contingent expenses lad been exhausted and SO many members Of the senate had gone tc their homes that business could mol well be transacted in that branch and several members of the house had also left.
 The afternoon session was begun with many Of the members packing ur for departure Statutes and other doc uments and stationery were gathered into bundles. When this work was completed most of the members went into the corridor or the committed rooms so that at one state of the read ing of bill in which all interest had been lost, only seven members were on the floor and only two Of them were following the reading. Hardly more than half dozen visitor; "thronged" the gallery at any one time
 The senators, but not many oi them, were assembled at night wait ing for the action of the house which continued the reading of the Colter district irrigation bill and that was finally passed. It was transmitted to the senate which promptly concurred in the amendment and the measure was sent to the governor.
 Both houses sent message to the executive inquiring if he had any oth- CT communication to send them The governor replied that he had not and he meant perhaps, more than he said Though there was not a large attend ance. there were the usually light and irreverert proceedings that usually attend final adjournment At 10 O. clock there was a call of the senate and messages were sent out to absent members who were yet in the city. A little before II o'clock both houses were adjourned.
 The Last Day.
 When the house met for the last day it entered upon the business oi legislating or trying to legislate as if the session were at its beginning. A motion was offered for a reconsidera- ton Of the vote by which the senate prohibition bill had been defeated on Saturday. The motion carried and a message was sent to the senate re questing the return of the bill. But by that time. the senate was at recess and remained in that condition throughout the greater part of the day.
 There was some loss Of time in the morning trying to recover possession of the Campbell amendment to the constitution to remove the restriction from the number of acres of grazing land that could be leased. The bill had been sent to the committee on public lands and Chairman Briscoe Of the committee intimated that 1t would remain there indefinitely. Fin ally on an order from the house he produced it and it was taken up in the afternoon in the committee of the whole and was recommended for passage.
 But when it was later taken up for third reading considerable objection was developed and though it received a vote Of l7 to s it failed by one vote to secure the required majority. There were enough members Of the house to put it through but they were not present. There were probably enough about the capitol building but they could not be immediately located. The announcement of the roll call was withheld in order that members might change their votes and many of them did so but as fast as they changed to the affirmative others veered to the negative.
 The Colter district irrigation bill which has been expressing the atten- ton of the house for several days was taken up again with little prospect that it would become a law. The house had already made several amendments, some of them of a radi- cal character. But the house went bravely on with the bill and at O. clock in the afternoon finished the reading of it in the committee of the whole. It was recommended for pas sage and later the house sent 1t to the committee on enrolled and cngrossed bills. Having disposed of some other matters before it, purely in the way of clearing the calendar the house stood at recess for the double pur- pose of awaiting the report of the enrolling and expressing committee