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trcduced in both houses. We have too many laws now as a whole. 

 We are getting more laws. The average farmer, when he wants a 

 remedy, does not know where to go in those six volumes of con- 

 solidated laws plus three or four volumes of supplement. He has 

 to consult legal opinion. 



We shall have before us within the next year some pretty 

 important legislation. We shall have a great many bills 

 relating to the agricultural law, and we want to make it as simple 

 as possible and we want to take it out of politics as much as we 

 can. This morning the senate committee met and decided, wath 

 a view to making the procedure as simple as possible, to call, with 

 the assistance of the assembly committee, a joint session of the 

 two agricultural committees to discuss everything pending before 

 us relating to agricultural matters. We have appointed the 28th 

 and 29th of January for that joint session. The place will be 

 announced later. I hope it will be held in the Senate Chamber 

 if possible, or in this hall. At that meeting, which wall begin im- 

 mediately at the close of the legislature — probably about two 

 o'clock in the afternoon — we shall have the definite program. We 

 shall take up every bill which has come before us up to that time 

 and we shall take up other questions which have not yet come 

 before us but which we expect to have before us, for in- 

 stance, farm credit. I doubt very much if the bill relating 

 to that will have been introduced by that time. We have 

 the commission merchant bill in shape for introduction within the 

 next two or three days. We have already introduced the farm 

 bureau bill. The cooperative bill for the simplification of associa- 

 tions getting together for cooperative purposes of buying and sell- 

 ing I understand is also to be introduced within a few days. 

 All of these matters are coming before this meeting, which will 

 last two days, if necessary three days. We want to bring people 

 here and clear up the situation. We want to view these bills as a 

 whole. There is no use in treating the agicultural law the way the 

 forest, fish and game law was treated. You know what that meant. 

 Everyone who had a creek in his cou^ity, or any birds, wanted a 

 special law relating to that creek or to the season for a particular 

 species of birds, and wanted it to apply to that county alone. 

 We are almost on the brink of chaos from a legislative point of 



