The Alaska citizen., 1915-04-12

 LEGISLATURE

JUNEAU, April 5-The liquor question was disposed of this after noon by the lower house of the territorial legislature when the bill providing for the submission of the question to vote at the next gen. eral election was passed by a vote of IA to ?. If the election provided for in the bill is carried by the drys, all saloons and breweries in the territory will be compelled to close on January l, 1918 The senate has not yet acted on the bill.
 Memorials were introduced in both houses of the legislature today, ask ing congress to preserve the fisheries of the territory for Alaskan ports. This action was taken to prevent the further shipment of fish via Prince Rupert.
 Senator Thomas McGann. of Nome, introduced a bill in the upper house which provides for the elimination of professional jurors from district courts. The measure provides that no person shall qualify for grand or petit juries who shall have served more than three times during the preceding two years.
 Senator Willard introduced a reso- lution asking that 25 per cent of the national forest reserve fund be set aside for the benefit of the schools of the territory.
 Representative Daily. of Nome, in troduced memorial asking for a monthly mail service for Marshall City, on the lower Yukon.
 JUNEAU, April 6.-The Hubbard memorial asking congress for state hood for Alaska was reported back to the senate today without preju dice, after the question had been debated for three hours by the mem bers of the upper house, sitting as committee of the whole. A mo- ton to kill the measure by indefinite postponement was lost by a tie vote.
 Representative Coombs introduced memorial in the lower house ask ing congress to provide funds for the construction of breakwater at Nome,
 Another memorial introduced in the lower chamber asks congress for the establishment of a milling plant at some point In Southeastern Alaska, to be operated under the supervision of the bureau of mines.
 JUNEAU, April 8-The Willard full territorial memorial was ap- proved by the lower house of the territorial legislature today by vote of nine to seven, and the same memorial has been given the right of way in the senate. where 1t has teen substituted for the Shoup mem orial which was introduced in the house, and which asks for the same thing. Representative Dan Driscoll, of Fairbanks, voted against both memorials.
 The Willard resolution providing for the division of forest reserve money equally among the four di- visions after a deduction of 25 per cent for school purposes was rec commended for passage by the sen ate committee today.
 A bill introduced in the house to- day provides that stenographic re- ports shall be made of all testimony before grand juries.
 Representative Noon introduced joint memorial in the house yester- day, asking a bounty of $25 on brown bear. and praying that the closed season on the same be re- scinded. The memorial also asked that the United States law relating to game and fur-bearing animals be 30 as to give the terri- torial legislature full control in Alaska.
 Representative Shoup introduced bill providing for a uniform law of in Alaska. The mea- sure was referred to the committee on education.
 Another bill introduced in the house provides for the amendment of the banking law. and another provides for additional compensation of the secretary of the territory.
 It is generally believed here now that the amendment to the Roden mining law will be passed by the senate over the objections of Sena- tors McGann and Aldrich. of Nome. Senator Gaustad emphatically favors the amendment providing that ass- essment work performed on one claim of an association shall be suf- licient for the entire group.