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bills getting jammed up. To continue on:

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"I believe the difficulty the legislature has

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in considering supplemental appropriation bills is not in

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their inability to be moved until the budget bill has

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passed both houses. The provisions of such bills are

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generally known early in the session and can be fully con-

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sidered in committee. Information received from the

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Legislative Council indicates that in the 1966 session,

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417 bills were introduced and accepted by the legislature

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after the March 1 deadline of which 287 were State-wide; and

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130 were of local nature. I believe that the last minute

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legislative jam can be largely attributed to this fact."

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I think there were 1800 total votes put into the

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session, of which 417 came in after the deadline for the

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introduction of bills. I don't know whether this is normal

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or not or whether it's because of the seventy-day session.

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"I would like to call your attention to Section

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34 of Article 3, which deals with the State debt and pro-

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vides for its payment. The section also contains pro-

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hibition against giving or loaning the credit of the State

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to any individual, association or corporation, et cetera,