The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-02-25
LEGISLATURE IS
NEARING CLOSE
ONLY A FEW DAYS BEFORE ALL
BILLS GO TO RULES
U COMMITTEE.
BUT II BILLS PASSED
Anti.Pass Is Only Measure That Has
Signature Of The Gov
ernOr.

Frankfort, Feb. 23.-With ESQ
bills in the hopper Of the lower
branch Of the General Assembly and
BAG in the Senate, Kentucky solons
will have to step lively during the
next few days II they are to get many
of the measures on the road to the
executive Office before the rules COM
mittee take charge of legislation in
both houses. strNS
Only eleven measures thus far have
passed both branches and only one,
the anti-pass bill. has received the
signature of the governor, completing
its trip through the legislative mill.
Two other measures have passed
both houses and now are in the hands
OF the governor, but his signature
has not yet been affixed.
One provides for q stenographer
for the state inspector and examiner
and the other permits second-class
cities to acquire law libraries. None
of the other measuers which have
passed both branches has reached
the chief executive.
Administration Measures.
At least five of the bills which
have been piloted through the two
houses can be classed as administra-
tion measures and there was little
opposition to any OF them except
from the Republican minority. The
Democratic members of both branch
es have evidenced a determination
TO push through the measures prom
ised in the campaign pledges and in
the Democratic platform and in that
determination the members of the
majority have been acting as a
unit.
The rules committee will take
charge of legislation in the Senate
for the last fifteen days Of the SEES
sion while in the House the rules
committee will take charge of the
last ten days, beginning March 3.
There will be a scramble during the
next few days, especially in the
House to get pet measures acted up
on before they fall afoul Of the rules
committe, where they must remain
unless the members of that commit
tee see fit to bring them out or the
House by two-thirds vote forces
such action.
Made Special Orders.
Representative Lees measure to
make Elizabethtown fourth class
city has been made a special order
for tomorrow morning at IL o'clock
and probably will be passed by the
House with little delay and without
any opposition.
The bill offered by Representative
White, to relieve the condition exist
ing in the Office of State Superintend-
ent Gilbert and which provides for
four clerks and five stenographers in
that department, will come up as a
special order at o'clock tomorrow
afternoon.
The court of appeals held recently
that Superintendent Gilbert had no
authority to employ clerks and stem
ographers that have been required to
keep up the work of the Office and 1t
was to relieve that condition that the
bill was introduced. There will be
little opposition to the passage of the
bill in the House, 1t is believed, and
its journey through the Senate prob
ably will be made with little dissent.
The House calendar contains "a
bills, while the list In the orders Of
the day includes more than q hun
dred. Deep down in the list are many
dear to the hearts of their authors
which may never get any farther
along unless the authors can secure
the help of their colleagues and force
them to the front. That will prove
hard matter. however, for the list
includes more than half Of the MEM
bership. each of whom is equally anx-
ious to give his bill precedence and
will not consent to sidestep his own
measure to give those of others the
right OF way.
House Tagging Behind.
The House il far behind the Sem
ate. but there IL an apparent deter