The Ketchikan miner., 1915-03-25
FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
FIGTH TO KILL CLOSED
 SUNDAY BILL UNSUCCESSFUL

 By vote of 9 to :, an amendment to kill the law providing sunday closing, now in force in Alaska, was lost in the House today. Representa- tives Britt, Burns, briscoll, Heid' Holland. Moran, Shoup, Snow and ransey voted against repeating the law while Representatives Coombs, Daily, Day, Getehell HecSman Noon and Spearek Collins voted to repeal l The action came up on the iudic- iary committee substitute for the , Coombs' Sunday-elosing repeal bill | It will be remembered the committee amended the Coomhs bill to repeal the law as it applied to everything ex- eept saloons.
 Three of the Second division dele gation wanted the law repealed be- cause they declared that the Gear pet-bagging officials sent to Nome lad discriminated against general bus mess at Nome, by allowing only drug stores. bakeries and an under taking establishment to remain open. ' Representative Daily said that the dis triet attorney and judge at Nome hal allowed the moving picture shows to remain open on Sunday, in direct vi olation of tie law He said the peo. ple in his division viewed the ''dis- criminatory tacties'' with great deal of suspicion.
 Will Bill Passed
 Representative Held s bill provid ing olographic wills, passed the House by unanimous vote. The act will amend Section 564 of the compiled laws of Alaska Mir. Held cited in stances where heirs were denied he quests because the instructions =, assignment of property had not beer made in the presence of witnesses and subscribed to as required under the existing law ''For instance. Mir Held said ''A man is about to undergo an operation that may cause his death All he will have to do is to sign a scrap of paper assigning property to this or that person, and the validity of the instrument cannot be attacked '' He spoke of deaths that had occurred in outlying dis tricts, where the last instructions of lying men had not been carried out in regard to the disposition of money and property.
 The bill will now go the the Senate
 Uniform Schools Asked
 Representative Burns introduced H. B. B, an act modifying the session school system in Alaska, with the Governor of the territory as head of the system. The bill provides the Governor shall appoint q school SUI perintendent and an assistant to com prise the "Territorial Board of Ed ucation,' which shall consist of three members The bill referred to the education committee.
 Representative Britt introduced Il. B. 33, an act odifying the session law of 1913 relating to the practice and regulation of pharmacy.
 The municipal affairs committee favorably recommended Il. B. 21, re- Iating to the assessment, levy and col lection of taxes for school and muni cipal purposes, and II. B. ', same.
 II. J. Resolution No. G, empowerinf the Governor to take funds from tho fund for the relief of destftution, te apply to maintaining the Sitka Plon ers' Home, also was favorehl's r".e mmended for passage.
 II. B. 19, marriage licenses, and Il B. 13. eight-hour law for all undei ground mining. will come up for sec ond reading Monday
 Wolf Bounty in House ! After resolving itself into con mittee of the whole with Represen tative Driscoll in the chair, the House deferred taking up Senate Bill Il, pro viding bounty of $10 on wolves because copies of the bill as amend ed in the Senate had not been deliver ed to the House. The bill comes IT. Monday.
 Mr. shoup made q plea that the House do not amend the bill. eff you alter this measure" he said, 1.-the 1 .l1