The Alaska daily empire., 1917-05-04

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 clock on the wall of the House of
 Representatives Chamber pointed at
 11:45 o'clock when the House ad- journed for the last time during the
 Third Legislative Session. the watch
 es of the members showed the time
 to be exactly S:20 o'clock this morn ing. The Senate adjourned sine die five minutes before at SIS o'clock. Both houses had been in session al most continuously since 3 a. nl.. yes | terday, taking recesses only suffic- iently long to get their meals. Dur l ing the long night, beginning at 8 | p. m. yesterday and terminating with adjournment, and members had to get something to eat as best they could.
 Trouble Stars
 l From the beginning of the night session both houses started ahead at | top speed in an endeavor to clean up the business, and everything
 looked very favorable for an adjourn
 ment before midnight A difference of opinion between the two Houses
 arose, however, over the amount of expense money to be allowed the At torney General and also over cer- tain amendments to the election law which resulted in a deadlock until this morning.
 Shortly before midnight, the Sen ate returned to the House the gener' al appropriation bill which had been amended by that body. The House
 refused to concur in the greater part
 of the Senate amendments and noti- fled the Senate of their action.
 committee on free conference was
 appointed, and an agreement reached
 with regard to all amendments ex- cepting the one relating to the
 amount of money to be allowed for office and contingent expenses for
 the Attorney General and the two bodies remained in a deadlock until shortly before eight o'clock this morning.
 The Senate majority was keeping up it's record of consistently dppos' ing anything wanted by the Attorney General. A little earlier in the ses- sion it defeated the House proposal to raise the salary of the Attorney General from $5,000 to $7,000 year,
 though it voted in favor of the pol Ii icy involved by making the salary $7,O00 on and after 1921. The House
 then allowed $14,100 for the office.
 travelling and other expenses of the Attorney General for two years. The Senate majority, under the leader ship of Senator Sutherland cut this to $10,000. Later, when the need
 was fully explained, the Senate re-
 stored the appropriation to $14,1oO, Senator Sutherland alone voting
 against it. Still later Senator Suth-
 erland got the matter up again and
 got it cut to s12,000. The House re- fused to agree to this proposition,
 and for a time it looked as though the appropriation bill might fail of
 passage-just as the election law fi- nally failed. Just before o'clock
 this morning the houses agreed on a compromise of $13,000 for the At torney General, and the measure went to the Governor for his sigma ture
 Election Law Contest
 The election law contest. the other proposition that helped to keep the
 houses in session all night. was
 over an amendment by the Senate
 striking from the bill as it passed
 the House provision that only Aus tralian ballots could be counted ex- cept where proper certificates ex- blaming the reason why they were not used accompanied the returns.
 The failure of the houses to agree
 caused the defeat of the election law. Gov. Strong had been in constant
 attendance on the Session since eight
 o'clock of last night and as fast as
 the bills were approved by both
 houses they were sent to him in the
 office of George Irving. where he signed them as they came. The ap- propriation bill was the last one signed by him and this was done at S:10 o'clock this morning.
 After it's return committee con sisting of C. K. Snow and J. P. Daly was appointed to notify the Senate that the House was ready to adjourn. Senators Dan Sutherland q 4 f.I@ xkf