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and the legislature in Nebraska at the present time is more

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than adequate for the purposes of coming to grips with

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public questions. If you like, we can explore this later,

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if you have some questions about it.

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There are questions involving the problem of

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a governor elected on a partisan ticket and the legislature

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elected on a nonpartisan ticket. So, if you are interested

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in those, we can go into that later on.

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Another point which was mentioned in the paper,

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on Page 13, I believe, was the fact that unicameralism

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results in higher standards for the introduction of bills.

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It should be pointed out that the number of

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bills which a legislature must consider, I think, is a

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function of several things. One would be the length of

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the session. It is possible that it would be a function

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of the number of legislators. Nebraska's experience in

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this field, however, is, I think, largely the result of

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a relatively severe limitation on the introduction of

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bills after a certain number of legislative days. In

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other words, after a certain point has been reached in

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the legislative session, an individual member may no