The Alaska daily empire., 1915-04-20
BILLS ARE
 PUFF TIRo
 BY SE SENATE

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 By dint of the hardest kind of Q grind today, the Senate transacted great volume of business. and will be ready for taxation and revenue measures before tue end Of the week
 The following ai'le passed ibe sen ate:
 House Bii l psiseon elections and ballots.
 S. B. Si Tanner property rghts of husband end wife.
 S. B. SS, Sulzer relating to the method of choosing jurors.
 S. B. 4S, Willard. relating to inaur. ance companies.
 S. J. Memorial 9. Sulzer, relating to rights Of way over public lands
 S. J. Memorial 12, Hubbard wireless station at Dillingham;
 S. J. NJ. l9. Tanner postal savings banks for Alaska.
 S. J. M 14 Tanner, equitable par cels post rates in Alaska.
 S. Resolution 11 Aldrich, giving Senator McGann fun compensation.
 F. B. 2i, Britt. taxes for school and purposes
 F. B. 55. judiciary committee, re, Iating to jury challenges
 IT Resolution g, Driscoll, vote of thanks for Representative Shoup, as of the Pioneers Home without compensation.
 The Senate also recommended for passage. the anti-proiesaional juror lm. three memorials and one joint The school bin and the dentistry bnl were advanced on the calendar until April %.
 Four Bills Are Killed
 Four bills were killed by the Sem lte. as follows
 s. B. 4, Willard. relating Co taxes for school and municipal purposes
 g. B. S4 Sulzer, providing three .ourths verdicts of iuries irving civil ,auses
 s. B. 51 Gaustad providing small iebt procedure.
 S. J. resolution Hubbard, ereat- ng on emergency school luud
 Two joint resolutions. relating to egal counsel for the Territory were 
 Banking Billie Pasaed
 The House passed Bnls 57 5S. 59. 90, and 6l, relating to banks and banking, and consumed the greater part of the day In a wrangle over House Bill 20. by Mr. Snow, declaring in open cut mines, open pits, dredges, hydraulics telephone iaundries, hotels. restau- ants and bakeries. beyond reason lble length of time, to be injurious to health. and providing 9 schedule Of IS hours a week for women in laun- .ries. restaurants, hotels, etc.. and he eight-hour day for open-cut min. ms, etc.
 The committee of the whole failed .o agree on the bill, and further ac- ion on 1t was deferred. Motion of ,fr Getchell, to strike out all reference 70 mining, failed, by vote of 8 to 6. PICK UP STUFF.
 Assembly Permits New Biil
 By unanimous consent of the House md by the necessary two-thrds con. .ent of the Senate. Senator Hubbard tone opposing it new bin was in- reduced in the Legislature today the irst since the 45-day limit expired t is S. B. 5S. by Senator SulzeE and House Bill 1J3, by Mfr Noon. and is designed to repeal Che present law in .egard to obtaining money on false Senator Sulzer explained hat United States District Attorney !. A. smiser had called his attention O the necessity of repeating the pres nt law, because the statute provides hat the evidence in cases of this na. ure must be in writing, "The district informs me that many a gull y man escapes his just deserts by eason of the law. he said
 Senator Hubbard objected to the in. reduction of the bin because he said ie would be forced to object to the .Hl when 1t came up. This bill would .pset 9 law which hos been law for lany years, and which is a good law. q my opinion" he said
 Salary lncreaso Favored
 Senator McGann's bin to increase he salary of the Territorinl mining Inspector from S2.5o0 to S3,00o, was for passage by the Sen. te mining committee today. The con. littee also urged that S. B. 30, Senator tanner, amending the laws relating to unuai mining assessment work, do ass. An amendment provides that 'hen claims on which no work has cen done are open to relocation re- ocation shall not be valid when tho rlglnaI locators or their represents ives have resumed their work upon be claim. after failure and before Tee oeation
 Moving Capital Not Urged
 Representative Noon's memorial skiing Congress to move tho capital rom Juneau to Seward came back rom the committee today without rec ,mmendation The report was signed ,y Representatives nag priscoll and soombs. Mr. Driscoil said the com