ANOTHER EXTRA SESSION.
Mr. RYAN offered a resolution declaring it as the sense of the members thereof that the Legislature should be reconvened, in order to dispose of and preserve the work already done from substantial failure. He said the responsibility or the failure of this General Assembly must and will rest some where. The responsibility, in judgment, should not rest on this body. I believe there never has been convened in this State a page: 186[View Page 186] like body that more conscientiously and diligently performed its duty, and it should not be allowed to go before the people with any stain resting upon the record or with any reason or justification on the part of the people, to complain against the failure to pass necessary laws. The responsibility should rest where it legitimately and rightly belongs. I think this resolution ought to pass as an expression of our wishes and judgment upon this subject.
Mr. LINDSAY was willing that the country should know that he indorsed every word uttered in the resolution and would vote for its adoption.
Mr. McINTOSCH thought it was the Governor's own business to decide for himself whether or not this Assembly should be re-convened. He was of the opinion that the members of this body would not commit themselves upon the record to say that they want to be returned for a special session.
Mr. GIBSON thought the General Assembly has been here long enough; that bad bills as well as good ones have passed, and he favored an adjournment sine die.
Mr. BUSKIRK was opposed to a continuance of the session and would vote against the resolution.
Mr. KENNER quoted from the Constitution that it was the Governor's business if, in his judgment the public welfare of the State required it, to call a special session, and he would not vote for any resolution that has a tendency of bidding for an extension of $6 a day. It is beneath the dignity of this body, or ought to be.
Mr. CARTER, although he disliked to stay here much longer, yet was in favor of the resolution because it would help to influence the Governor to order an extra session--a thing highly necessary to the common welfare of the State.
Mr. FRAZER--The figures show that it is not the fault of the House that the Legislature is in this condition. There were seventy-two bills introduced by the Revision Committee: twenty-four wer introduced in the Senate; four failed to pass in the Senate, and the House passed every one. Forty-eight bills from the Revision Committee were introduced in the House, forty-five of them passed the House, went to the Senate, and thirty-five of them sleep there to-day. We passed every Senate bill sent here, and I am informed that about eighty House bills sleep the sleep of death at the other end of the Capitol, and I want the people to understand that it is not the fault of the House that this legislation is not carried into effect.
On motion by Mr. CARTER, a Special Committee of Three was appointed to consider this resolution and report at 2 p. m.
