The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 2, 1947, Page 3

Ss voae KEY Wi hg; shé proititsed to meet 6 CITIZEN . | BSL hm a ?” Jeff shack stood out like a small wart - eucy ww, Chapter 15 .. }r6om atid Jeff strode over atid) thin ribbon gliding along as vis: d: “ jit tk = lett for Yuima| leaned inside the door. A sweat-|cously as ctude “OL ee hee ' ere cate ite Meee With| “Anyone here know | § ey sped past the imposii Linda rode it r0ud Vv yone here know an old|crumbling adobe walls of the ol a dng: shé could bring back. prospector named Amos Lara-| Mexican S risen. ‘ Amos ‘Lurabee’s ie end ft yond ; ap its low buildings preasily ia the “A thetr tt them to move. ows a8 eles permitte seh 3 ewal ne eats “foun etn might : front offi a lone fi a h for the poli _ The @ Was embiy ex- _ Jooked.up when Jeff emited & startled whos ; ASupenant Irskine! Well rn be 3 to ig heel agein okie Jett eyed his ex-sergeant with none piec Ww’ Buiaiegr flare tai “Slack. Picked wp . sevéral tracers this fnotriing but - the ass grt ven them this time of _@ay. You here on business, sir?” Jeff laughed in spite of himself. ey, cut out that sir routine.” “Hell’s bells, I’m having a time shaking off my Keine habits.” ‘. “{ Rtidw how it is—I’d probably ao the same if I ran into someone who'd outranked me. Where is the local constabulary?” Evaris gestured toward a back wy ~Thete is. lot of diffeypneg, be- | ‘tween a bill and.a law. Any mem- ; ber of the Legislature (House | and Senate) may introduce a bill, , but“it takes an affirmative vote} of *f ‘majority of those’ voting in both branches‘ plus the approval of the Governor to.make a bill + hetoife a law; or, in jthe event | the, ‘Governor: vetoes p (bill, jan) ' afirmative vete of two-thirds ot | those voting is hecessiry “to! transform a bill into a law.’ A vast number of bills néver become laws. Mariy -are killed in the Legislature’s abattoir; the | committee room. Others come}; from committee with a favorable ; report, are placed on the calen- | dar, voted upon and rejected by a majority of the members of éither hotise of the Legislature. Still others are pased by both branches of the Legislautre, then sent to the Governor and voted by him. P A bill that becomes a Yaw has! not had it easy. It takes a lot of! stamina to struggle upward from a bill to a law. The frail and in- - firm fall by the wayside. Only the strong finally get in the stat- ute books of the State. _ Here is what sedtion17, article: 111: of the « Florida: Cofstitution says about. how. a. bill "Every bill title on its first ‘wading, in either house, unless one-third of { the members present desire it/- read by sections. Every bill shall be read on three several days, unless two-thirds of the mem- bers present in the House were] such bill may be pending, shall . deem it expedient to dispense with this rule. The vote on the “final passage of every bill or joint resolution shall be taken by yeas and nays to be entered on the journal of each house; pro- vided—that any general revision of. the entite laws embodied in any bill shall not be required to be read by sections upon its final pasage, and its reading may be wholly dispensed with by a two- thirds vote. A majority of the members present in each house shall be necesary to, pass, every bill or joint redplutibn. All bills or joint resolutions” so “passed shall be signed by the presiding officer of the respective houses and by the Secretary of the Sen- ate ahd the Clerk of the House of Representatives.” The rules of the two houses of the Legislature go into more de- tail about how a bill becomes a law. Rule 43 of the Hoiise of Representatives provides: “All bills, resolutions and me- morials, when introduced, shall be typewritten or printed with- out interlineations, on not less than one sheet of paper, with Suitable margins and spaces bé- Hows the following after- hoon: He took 4 bts, transferred an ein the bor- tread. | ad cif relentlessly ired mus- Was gratefil for thé over- ks, a necessity in ccupied: dans and stakenly ce cept for figure in the smart | ott of the Arizona State’ atrol, Bent over. a magazine, he Dad FACTS and FIGURES By FULLER WAFREN shail. be-| shall, be, read, by its id. The deputy nodded. “Mean that ols Geeert rat be wees ‘put- e finger on people’?” Mest aia éxpression made Jeff “smile. “That’s my man. Where? does he live?” - . “About two miles out on the desert, east of the old prison, He’s er, on the face of the desert. A rura mailbox with his name carefull emblazoned indicated his prop-. erty, Jeff, noting it, smiled, wort dering if Amos had ever received anything other than the free manufacturer’s samples he had been in the habit of sending for. There was no sigh of life. The shack shimmered in the heat; Amos had repaired some of its more flagrant gaps by tacking discarded license plates over the holes, these reflected the siin un- pleasantly, “Guess he’s not home,” Jeff re- marked and frowned. _.. ah ae Whitey Evans cut off the oF gine. “Thought I heard somethin as. we. drove in here. Listen—” -: _ It came to them, both quite dis: tinctly—the lone mournftl rasp- ing hee-haw of a burro, fqllowed by an exasperated snort. The men exchanged puzzled glances. . “If his burro is here he is too,” Jeff said and got out. j The little animal stood in thé meager shade afforded by th shack. He had eaten the last o his hay and his water bucket was dry. He stared at Jeff and Whitey with dark reproachful eyes. _; “Funny ...” Jeff murmured arg suddenly felt apprehensive. burro was a. prospector’s friénd, carry-all, and often his salvation, Amos Larabee had always treate his with extraordinary solicitude even talking to them /confidential- ly as though they could under- stand him. meee Jeff's muscles tightened as hé strode quickly. toward the doot of the shack and thrust it open A wave of warm fetid air seepe out to greet him; his eyes strained through the gloom of the one- room abode and came to rest on the crumpled form of the old man lying on the dirt floor. ” “Amos! Amos Larabee!” Thé name seemed to stick in his throat and even as he said it he. knew. no answer would ever conie from the silent figure. : (To be continued) nn a a eee a cantatikerous old gaffer, has the devil of a disposition, Lives all alone With his barro..We drop in on him every now,and then to see that he hasn't dried up and blown away.” - ‘ “Been out there lately?” “Yes, As a matter of. fact, one of the boys stoppeti in three days ago. Larabee was all excited over a new digging of his. Insisted he’d make a million. this time—he never gives up hope.” “Well, gold fever gets in your blood like malaria when you've been at. it as Jong as he has, I guess. Thanks for the dope.” The deputy’s eyes pinned him “Got business with “Yes, an affidavit I want signed.’ ‘He used to prospect with my “Oh, Well you're pretty certain to find him home toward evening. ‘He’s too old and creaky to spend ‘a cold night: out on the desert.” WHITEY EVANS haying eri eard the conyersation beck- oned to Felt “Look. why not let me run you out there in the patrol car after it.cools off?” “Invitation accepted.” Jeff grinned, “I was wondering if I cou arouse @ taxi driver in this eat.” , They went to a restaurant and exchanged war reminiscehces over their meal; at four ‘o’clock they headed out of town. It was as hot as before but the shadows were longer. The few trees in Yuma droo and the earth was the gear rufous color that drew the eat then threw it back to scorch the. eyeballs. of anyone rash enough to defy it. The Colorado river moved slowly, a sluggish ee ee Oe : ““—"i for second reading, at which time ;amendments from the floor are | offered, and for third and final ,reading and passage (or rejection) : iat ORE DEO As provided by section 17, artis a Tome “cle 311,68 the @onstitutions every tween: the several sectlong. riabantal on s three sepa- bills shall contain a Pproper* title ; rate, days, , unjeks two-thifds of and enacting clause as +required'the members present ‘ghalh deem +>“ by the Constitution, and ‘shail’ it epedicnit to ‘dispens¢ with this embrace but one subject,’ and/itile”* 9) iets 4 matter properly ' ‘connected! pill unfavorably reported by therewith, which subject ‘shall be a committee is laid on‘ the 4able,> briefly expresed in the title,’ ~ | that* 1¢ biriéd, ‘iinless within ‘ Rule 42 provices- that billy anditwo ays afta the feport afppears joint. resoltitions shall be intro##; 4 fs ys at 1 a.motion is duced ag; the eighth “ordet oth ean Ans aa ‘by a two-thirds business” at the daily sessions of | vote to. put it on the -caléndar; a .in which..event the bill’ is placed the House. ° a All bills and joint resolutions: on the’ calendar notwithstanding shall, after being read by ‘titlé: the /wiifavorablé’ report of the only, be referred’ by the Speaker | committed: But ‘this doesn’t hap- of the House to an. appxopriate | pen often. A bill killed in. com- standing committee. There are 54; mittee usually stays dead. Thus, . standing committees, in the House} a mere majority of a committee, and 40 in the Senate. Each com-/ consisting of from five to twenty- mittee consists of not less than one members, has the powet of five nor more than twenty-one, life or death, over legislation. members, one of whom shall be| This makes it vitally important designated by the Speaker asi that each individual member of Chairman and another as Vice-! the legislature be the right kirld Chairman. !of man. The people are not pro- All bills referred to committees; tected by having just a majority shall be reported from said saa | of the legislature! good men. mittees, with their recommenda-! It will take another column to tions theron, within 14 legislative; tell you about the rest of the ‘days after reference. Bills favor- | road a bill has to travel to finally ably reported by committees are | become a law. 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