The Cordova daily times., 1915-04-20

While a photographer clicked it's record, and in the presence of Repre-. sentative c. K. Snow, author of the measure, and Senator Willard, and Representatives Burns and Shoup, Gov. J. F. A. Strong appended his signature to House Bill 52, designating Novem- Der 1, 1916, as the date on which AL askans will vote yes or no on prohi- bition. Two pens were used, both of which were carved from native ivory. One of the pens will be sent to the mother of the Governors secretary, Mrs. T. A. Shorthill, of Tacoma, who organized at Skagway in the late nineties, the first w. c. T. U. in AL aska.
 Senator o. P Hubbard, whose fight to have a memorial asking statehood was defeated, introduced in the upper house of the legislature a joint reso- lution asking that the people of Al aska vote on what form of govern ment they desire
 The election bills at present under consideration before the senate are House Bill No. 1, by Representative Driscoll, and Senate Bill No. 6, by Senator Willard are being consider ably amended. After almost a week of constant discussion as to the mer- it's of the two bills the end is not yet in sight. There is a strong senti- ment in the Senate, apparently that the Willard bill, although a complete election measure, is unweildy and not suitable for the outlying or rural pre- cincts, but that on the other hand, the that the Driscoll bill is not suf- ficiently comprehensive. The regis tration of voters is one of the chief bones of contention at the present time, the Senators from the First division and Senator Willard adyo- eating a registration before election while the members of the larger diyis. ions wish a registration at the polls.
 The divisional road supervisor bill passed the House. The bill provides that road commissioner from each division, named by the legislature shall have jurisdiction to spend one fourth of the forest reserve moneys yielded from the sale of timber and rent of land in the Third and First division forest reserves.
 The House passed a substitute for the Senate legal counsel resolution. The amendment takes the appoint ye power from the judiciary committee and lodges it with the governor, after the legislature adjourns. It empow- CTS the governor to employ one or more atorrneys to represent the ter ritory when legal representation for enforcement of Territorial laws is necessary. The resolution now goes back to the Senate.
 The "16-year-old actor bill" was killed by indefinite postponement. The opposition to the measure maintained that the councils should govern the question, without appeal to the legisla- ture. The measure would have made it unlawful for children under 16 to appear in theatrical productions, or in moving picture shows.
 Among the large number of new bills introduced in the legislature are the following:
 Giving power to the clerk of court to establish schools in precincts or camps outside of incorporated towns where there are at least ten white children between and 20 years of age, upon satisfactory petition, and providing for school boards, etc, and funds.
 Amending sections 1SS3-1SS4 of the compiled laws to read that whoever of sound memory and discretion and either of deliberate malice or by means of poison, or ii perpetrating or at tempting to perpetrate rape, arson,