The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-23
LEGISLATORS
TAKE Time FOR
7O.HOUR NAP
Mouth of Hopper Is Half
Closed as 45th Day
Is Ended.
BY ROBERT BEARD

Gorged with bills, the Indiana
general assembly retired at noon
today for seventy-hour nap, I'M
worried by the prospect of twelve
busy days ahead.
State senator's and representatives.
reopening their desks Tuesday
morning after their excursion to the
George Rogers Clark ceremonies at
VincenneS. will adjust their calen-
darS to the forty eighth day Of their
sixty-one-day session.
Night sessions are in prospect be-
fore the eventful night of Monday,
March II, when clocks will be
stopped in the legislative chambers
at midnight to permit the last Of
favored measures to be slipped
through to the Governors desk.
Legislators, who have introduced
ISL bills for the asSembly's consid-
Grafton, are bearing up bravely''
while coming to realize they very
probably will not make voluminous
contributions to the Indiana stat
uteS.
Public Is Sympathetic
In this display of fortitude they
seem to have the dry-eyed sympa-
thy of public that insists there
are too many laws already"
The mouth of the legislative hop
per was half closed today, when the
forty-fifth day of the session ended.
Introduction of bills is not permit
TED in the house of representatives
after the forty-fifth day save by
consent of majority of the mem
berS.
Introductions in the senate may
be made at any time. although the
chance of passage dwindles as the
session nearS a close.
Already, introductions have ex-
ceeded those of 1927 by more than
fifty. Two years ago 704 bills were
introduced. OF that number, 257
were signed by the Governor and
became laws Of the state.
Less than a dozen of this years
crop have been given Governor
Harry G. Leslie's signature. Inn
portant among these we're the mea-
SureS permitting a verdict by five
sixths of the jury in civil cases upon
instruction of the court, after una
nimous agreement appears iInprob-
able, and another greatly widening
the investment field for Indiana in
surance companies.
Must BE Published
Unless measures approved by the
Governor bear an emergency clause,
they do not become effective until
the acts Of the assembly have been
published IN book form and dis
tributed to all counties o3the state.
Emergency clauses either may
stipulate that the act shall become
effective upon the Governors ap-
proval, or on a specified date.
The state constitution provides
that the Governor is obliged to re-
ceiye and act upon all bills sent
him during the. first fifty-eight days
of the session. But he may refuse
to act upon those sent him after
that.
1t was in the exercise of this lat
ter privilege that former Governor
Ed Jackson pocket vetoed" thirty
two bills passed by the 1927 legisla-
ture and sent to him in the closing
days of the session.
Effective May Is
The acts of 1927 became effective
May is, 1927, at 1925 a. M, the day
and hour when the last of Indiana's
ninety-tWo counties received the
printed yolumes-twenty copies fer
each 1000 votes cast in the county
for secretary of state in the last pre-
ceding general election
Statements are required from
county clerks acknowledging receipt
of the volumes and relating the ex-
act hour and minute. When the
last of these reaches the Governors
Office, the chief executive issues q,
proclamation announcing the fact.
But the day and hour of the final
delivery, and not the Governors
proclamation, designates the time
and acts became "in full force and
effect"