Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-13

LEGISLATIVE PRINTING Is
CUT ONE HALF.
ECONOMY IS wATCUx0Rl
Both Houses Pass Resolution tc
Cut Down Number of Bills and
Journals Printed.
Both houses jumped on the state
printing graft with both feet yester,
day and other disclosures are antici.
pated. In concurring in a house reso'
luton restricting the printing Of the
calendars only for general distribution
it is estimated that the state will save
thousands.
Senator Davis presented figures to
show that the cost of legislative print
ing two years ago was $4,000 and
that per diem and mile age of members
was only $4,000. He declared that
these figures reflected the drain of the
excessive public printing bill.
Both houses engaged in considerable
oratory but when Senator Davis indi-
Gated that rs far as was a~scertainable
the resolution would save the state
approximately $4,000 in postage, cost
of printing and employees to mail out
the matter. opposition melted away.
The senate has under consideration
a joint rule which will cut the print
ing bill even further. 1t provides that
when a duplicate of a bill already or
dered printed in the house is intro
duced in the senate that the same
be not printed. The senate laid this
rule over to consider a way Of enforc-
ing it. This necessitated a conference
with the house committee on joint
rules.
In the House.
The first chance for members OF
the house of the Fourteenth legislative
assembly 10 distinguish themselves
along oratorical lines was seized upon
yesterday afternoon when the concur
rent resolution introduced by the
special joint committee on printing OF
bills, journals and calendars and dis.
tribution of the latter vas read.
The resolution as introduced reads
as follows:
BE it resolved, that there. be print
ed 700 copies of the temporary journal
OF each house, daily; 1000 copies of
each bill; and 2000.copies Of the calen.
dar of each house, daily,
"That the calendars only as by
Chapter 2O2 of the laws of Norsh*Da-
kota, of 1918 provided, be distributed
by mail, except that a c0pyto of any bill
may be procured by any person to be
mailed him upon request made to the
till clerk of the house in which such
bill originated;
THAT tie list for mailing purposes
in the distribution of said calendars
shall be made up as follows:
'"Illat each ~memberHOf the house or
senate shall be entitled to place there
the names of five persons to whom
the calendars of both houses shall be
mailed daily; 4,
THAT i'll addition thereto there may
be placed upon such mailing list all
newspapers published in the senate,
all state educational institutions, all
classified high schools, all public II.
braries, all Commercial clubs, all
auditors and all district judges;
THAT all bills, journals. and calen'
dars authorized by this resolution to
he printed shall be delivered by the
printer Greet to the secretary OF the
commissioners of public printing who
shall receipt therefor to the printer
Wley's Stand.
l.. II. Wiley of Morton county OBJ
jected strenuously to having the Jour
nails kept off the mailing list, arguing
that he was in favor of letting Inc
know what their legislators are
doing and that he did not want the
Of the legislature to be hidden
by false economy talk.
L. L. Twichell took the floor and re-
asserted himself as of the opinion that
good deal of money could be saved
the state by the adoption OF the mo
ton before the house and said that
the most of the journals sent out, II
they were placed on the mailing llst,
be wasted.
mr.. Dlvet also argued against plac-
ing the journals on the mailing list on
the ground that it would save the state
a good deal of money and stated that
the press could be safely relied upon
to give the public all the desired news
of the legislative session. :,
Treadwell Twichell also argued
against placing the journal on the
mailing list, saying that all 1t YOU'D
prove to the people was whether or not
heir representative OF senator was IN
his seat at the roll call.
MIR. Wiley's motion to place the
journals on the mailing list the same
as the calendars was lost.
Converse Amendment.
Mr.. Converse then moved that the
resolution introduced by the joint
be amended SO that any
farmers clubs, womens' clubs, Com
mercial clubs or other public organl'
requesting copies of the jour
nails and bills be supplied. The reso-
luton as amended was adopted.
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