The original question does not become irrevelant it still remains, demanding an answer but is not addressed, because no one is willing to answer it, because it is inexpedient.
The legislature, after discussion, decided that it was inexpedient to make any special provision in connection with the matter in controversy before the body, and there the matter rested.
After almost six years in office, however, this vaunted pragmatism stands exposed as a method of concealing an inexpedient brew of dogmatic progressivism and disdain for government process.