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size of the legislature. You could reduce the number and

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the size of committees. You can establish legislative

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aids, as most of the states have done. There are a whole

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lot of things you can do perfectly well, if you really

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want to do them. You don't have to adopt unicameralism.

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I don't know whether it helps or not, but it

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certainly has seemed to, because of the Nebraska exper-

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ience.

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Now, I have an interesting question, I think

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it's an interesting question with regard to this, for

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which I don't know any answer. There is agreement that

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this forum has worked well in Nebraska. The State may

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be a larger area, but the population is relatively small

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and I think probably about as homogeneous as you could

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find in any state in the union. Now, would this work,

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I don't know, in Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan, with a

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greatly larger population of a highly heterogeneous sort?

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I don't know. Actually, I would like to know.

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I would like to see some experiments. Although

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Senator Norris objected to the word, I would like to see

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some experiments in other states, so that we could