Associated Student Government senators Wednesday tabled emergency legislation to create a committee that would investigate the cancellation of the Frances Willard Party — causing some senators to chastise ASG for its inability to act promptly.

“This is why everyone hates ASG so much,” said Doug Singer, an A&O Productions senator who lives in Willard Residential College. “I’m just sorry we couldn’t do more tonight, and I hope in the future we can.”

Authored by Rainbow Alliance senator John Hughes, the bill was sent back to the Student Services Committee when senators could not decide whether it should focus on supporting Willard or acting on its behalf.

The bill underwent several revisions, initially calling for a five-person committee to look into why the party was cancelled and recommend alternate options for the event.

But by the time senators sent the bill back to committee, it would have only called on a committee to research structural changes to the residential college.

“I’m disappointed that we couldn’t pass it,” said Hughes, a former Daily Forum editor and board member of Students Publishing Co., which oversees The Daily. “The whole bill kind of got hijacked by people interested in fire safety. That’s great, but go write your own bill.”

Willard residents officially decided Monday to cancel the party and focus their concern on residents’ safety.

“The fire codes should have been checked before we spent $3 million on renovations,” Singer said.

In its initial form, the bill did not contain co-signatures from Willard senators. Whitney Gretz, a senator from the residential college, said they didn’t sign the first bill because the intentions of ASG and Willard were different.

“ASG’s intentions were more to try to keep the party,” said Gretz, a Weinberg freshman. “For Willard it was to address more, will we be able to hold events in the future?”

Senators might see the bill again next week if the student services committee passes it in its new form, but Gretz said the effect will not be as great.

“Right now we have the momentum of the student body,” she said.

The senate unanimously passed two other resolutions Wednesday — one calling upon students to attend Evanston City Council meetings that address redistricting and another commemorating the life of Jonah Richman, who would have been a Medill sophomore but drowned in August while trying to save a friend’s life.