The Alaska daily empire., 1917-04-28
HOUSE CONCURS
 TO AMENDMENTS
 OF SCHOOL BILL
Municipalities Can Now Be Given Seventy-five Per Cent Expended
 for Schools.
FIVE BILLS ARE PASSED

The House this morning voted to concur in the Senate amendment to the School bill and permit munich paltics seventy-five per cent of the amount expended by them for schools. The school bill was return ed from the Senate this morning with notification that the Senate had amended the bill. which as it passed allowed sixty per cent. to allow scyentyfive per cent. The question coming up, the House con cured. the roll was called and it passed nine to seven.
 Measures Passed Today
 In the House this morning five bills were passed and one was re- committed to be redrafted. House bills providing for the preservation of peace and public safety in the Territory; the creation of a Legisla- tive drafting bureau; prohibiting the trespass of persons on lands used for fox breeding purposes, taking of deposition of witnesses within the Territory and amending present laws were all passed
 Senate Bill providing for the es- tablishment of fish hatcheries for the preservation and propagation of salmon was also passed.
 The House bill to recompense A. J. Sprague for services in stocking bar ren streams with food fish was sent ,L e. .l e.;
 Bills Reported
 Bills were reported by commit tees as follows: For the transpor, tation of deer to the islands of Prince William Sound, to pass; for the construction of roads in the Ter rtory and appropriating $400,000 for same, recommended for passage with amendment raising the appropriation to $J00,000; House Bill 63, providing for the construction of roads in the Third Division, reported back as having been covered in Bill 36; bill to compensate A. J. Sprague, report ed back without recommendation Senate bill A, providing for fund to be used in the detection of crime, recommended for passage after re- ducing the sum appropriated from $20,000 to $10,000.
 Immediately on reconveninS after the noon recess, the House took up the discussion of Senate Bill 42. pro viding for direct primary system for choosing candidates for all offic- es established under the laws of the Territory or by Congress.
 It was proposed to amend the bili by eliminating the word Congress !" which would do away with the appli- cation of the bill to members of both houses of the Legislature. This pro posed amendment met with various opposition and was lost. The after noon was spent in discussing the b!li section by section.
 Bills Passed Late Yesterday
 Late yesterday afternoon the House passed the Senate bill allowing the Governor of the Territory fund for the detection of crime; the Senate bill to prohibit the advertising of liquors in the Territory, and the Sen ate bill providing for the appoint ment of a Territorial tax commits sion was laid on the table; and the bill providing that the Secretary of the Territory have the reports of Territorial officials printed before the start of the next legislative ses- sion, was passed. The House bill to prevent want0n and malicious kill ing of dogs was withdrawn by MT. Coombs, who introduced it.
 Late. this afternoon, on motion of MT. Corrigan. the House voted to reconsider the vote on the Aldrich Doctor bill. The bill was recOnsid- Dered and was sent back to the com mittee to have a new bill drafted