The Alaska daily empire., 1915-04-30
NIL BIG BILLS ARE \ PUT THROUGH AS
 LEGISLATURE ENDS

One by one thc bills viiaiiy con- corning thc business Of Alaska were taken upand passed before the See ond Legislative Assembly ceased It's labors carly th.s morning X threat. cned aibus,cr to force through the fiouse thc revenue hii providing a direct property tax failed co mater ialize and House Bill lo9. rae -eease bill which is expected to yield S6oo. -O00 -iu revenue. in the two years until the Third Session. was pu. on final passage and rat The anpropria. uon biit known as Scnatc Biii 6I. and carry.ns items aggrcgating Sl5o.000 passed both bodies oi Che Legislature after tle har1e, kind of fight The uniform school biu which came with in an ace Of defeat wca, through with colors flying and thc prsccli biii pro ydng for che election oi an attorney general in 19i6 and che House reso- uron empowerlas the Governor Go appoint legal counsel for the Territory unrii that time. was passed The House defeated ,hc p0ii-taN 0ili and the law on Che sta,alc books. provid- ing for the collection of a head tax is sau in force 0niy a .ew meas ures died with the session among them the Hubbard bil tor the orgsni- zation or trust companies and rhe Tanner and Shoup fisheries memorial Co Congress.
 The worSmans compensation act passed lere yesterday afternoon. and was one oi the first balls signed by Gov. J. F. A. strong last night The Sen ate had reused to concur in the House action in exemprns q'acegs from the operation of the hill and the House was askcd lo recede- Tho House with drew tle placer exemption by Che fol- lowing vo,c.
 Aye: Britt. Burns. Coombs, Day, Driscou. Heckman. Held. Holland. Shoup snow Tansey. Speaker Col i.ns
 Nay Daiy Getcher Moran. Noon.
 License Tax Enacted
 * free confcrence. between a com mittee consisting or three members of the House and an equal number of Senators. deliberated for au hour be- fore an agreement was reached on the license revenue bili The committees finally reported back 70 bc,h houses, with several amendments Co tne scale of license taxes and after che House had ratified the conference report oy adoption tae Senate followed suit and Che bin was sent to enrolment and t1ca 60 the Governor Senators Tan. uer and Hubbard opposed the measure in fine Senate. but che balance oi the Senate voted "aye.
 The license bill is not unlike chat passed by che First Legislature as that session. revenue measure The committee lowered the 1918 fish tax schedule from cents on reds and sockeycs. to cents and levy of ] per cent on che gross instead oi 2 per cent on the net receipts Of electric iight companies iaundries. and other business was made. Nc provision was made for the licensing Of the big 'n- dustries in che Second and Fourth dt visions. including dredgers and light craze companies. The Second divis' ion was firmly against the taxation oi those industries The biH as it stands Is declared Go be strictly legal. and collection Of S300.o00 in taxes that ii is expected 70 produce annually, will not be difficult it is bciered The legal counsel provision wlii take cere ol che enforcement ot che tax coiiac ton. members said last night
 Appropriation Endangered
 Had Representative James p Dals been inclined to press point Of orcei which hc ai one time threatened te raise against it the appropriation measure would no, haze passed wher it did Under House rule an ap propriaticn bill must be introduced a day before t Is placed on final pas sage The Kougarok members refis ed. however to insist on his point knowing that the hii was sure to pass anu Lla- lala Nat-tr '''.-'' -'9
 che adjournment day late. speake Collins commended Mr. Daily for hi maguanimity-
 As it was. Senator Charles X. Sul ger also made 0is concession oeiof the bill went through the Senate. .A throughout the entire session Senator Suizer and Tanner have contested tn plan ot the members of the otte divisions. which was carried out D, sheer force or numbers to divide ih moneys accrued 10 che Ierrltoria Treasury by che sale of timber in ,h First and Third division forest se serve. They had coutended with 2l the available weapons of argument that by every legal and moral rieh the First division. r. Che Third did TO choose co press it's claim. was cntltie