The Alaska daily empire., 1917-05-02
House Passes the Big Bill for Appropriations for Maintenance of Roads
 in Territory.
AIDS TO NAVIGATION
Waterway Improvements within Jurisdiction of Commissioners
 on Roads.

i The House late yesterday after noon passed the appropriation bill providing $400,000 for the construc- 1 tion and maintenance of roads with ! in the Territory of Alaska. This money will be equally divided be- tween the four divisions of the Ter ritory.
 An effort was made by Represen. tatives Price, Snow Burns and Speaker Hess to amend the general road appropriation bill which passed the House late yesterday so that in stead of dividing the $400,000 equal ly among the four divisions, that it be divided among them according to their respective needs" The eff fort failed however, and each divis. ion will get $100,000.
 This morning joint resolution was passed by the Senate to allow MT Casey to introduce a bill which will allow the board of road super visors to use the money for dredging and improvement of waterways in ar effort to aid navigation where they may see fit This resolution passed the House and the bill was introduc ed late this afternoon. It was point ed out that the money appropriated might not all be required for roads in this division, but if it could be used for dredging a shallow channel across the bar above Juneau, and possibly part be used on the Young's Bay cutoff, it would result in i'm measurable good for this section.
 An effort will also be made to the Legislature appropriating $10O,. 900. or as much thereof as may be necessary, for the defense of the Territory and purposes directly con nected herewith and to serve as an emergency fund for pressing contin gencies directly and immediately chargable to war conditions and none other, to be expended under the di rection and in the discretion of the Governor" It was the original plan to have this carried in the general appropriation bill, but upon advise of Attorney General Grigsby,, it was made a special bill.
 This morning the House passed three bills, indefinitely postponed one and one was withdrawn. The bills passed were: Senate bill for the direct election of National committee men and Delegate to national con ventions; House bill for the pur pose of compensating A. J. Sprague for stocking barren streams with food fish, and Senate bill relating to the descent of real property where no heirs are known.
 House bill providing for the build ing of wagon roads in the Third Di- vision was indefinitely postponed as this had already been handled in the general road bill. House bill providing for the establishment of board of road commissioners for each division was withdrawn as the point had already been covered by other bills.
 This afternoon the House passed the bill introduced by Senator Sund back for the establishment of citi- zenship night schools throughout the Territory. This bill passed the Sen ate recently and does not carry an appropriation.
 The House voted to reconsider the action taken yesterday on the emer gency clause attached to the general road appropriation bill and passed the emergency clause which makes the sum of $2O0,00O available for road work on May 18th of this year.
 Mr Daily this afternoon introduced a concurrent resolution asking that the Secretary of the Territory have certain sections of the Federal law approved July 30. 1886, printed in the Session Laws of the 1917 Legis- lature. This resolution was advanc- ed on the calendar and passed. At last nights session Senate Bill 42 was passed by the House, and Senate bill providing for the dis qualifying of a biased or prejudiced ;,duo x,,ac ipdafipitaly pOStDOneQ.