The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-21
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS

A communication from the Terri torial Council of Defense, submitting to the Legislature inc proposal oi the Council of National Defense that the Territory create an organization to provide work for returning sol diers and other purposes and provide the costs of maintenance, was reao and referred to the Ways and Means committed.
 A communication from the Skag way Chamber of Commerce askint for the construction of road alont the Skagway river to the summit p' White Pass was referred to the Com mittee on Roads and Highways
 The bill by MT Pennington an propriating $500 for the entertain mei4t of returning American soldier: upon their arrival al New York, the same to be expended by the Rock, Mountain Club, came up for second reading and was placed on the cal endar for third reading without amendment.
 The "Bolsheviki Bill' H. B. 3, b, Mr. Pennington, came up for its sec ond reading this morning. Following motion that the minority report which made the offense of demonstra tion against the Government referred to in the bill misdemeanor instead of a felony, debate ensued witt Mir. Pennington leading on the side favoring making the offense fel 1ny and Mr. Dunn in favor of mak ing it a misdemeanor
 The motion to make the penalty I misdemeanor was lost by a vote of 5 to IL Representatives Allan Began, Collins, Dunn and Rydeer voting for the motion.
 Mr Pennington then moved tha1 the majority report, which made the punishment for the violating the terms of the Act a fine of $2,000 ol two years in jail, be adopted. The motion was seconded by Mir Sowerb! and carried.
 Another debate followed the ques tion as to whether or not the emer gency clause should be adopted, witt MT. Collins and MT. Pennington il favor of adopting the emergency clause which had been stricken iron he Act by the majority report, anf Mr Daly opposed to it. The vote resulted in the emergency clause remaining as a part of the bill Began, Daly, Davies, Dunn, Patter son, Ray and Rydeen voting no.
 The Bill was ordered engrosset and will come up in order for its third reading.
 League of Nations Discussed
 The discussion of H. J. NJ. No. 1 by Mr White. which endorsed tht League of Nations, by special order came up on the calendar at Il o'clock. On motion of Mir Collins he House resolved itself into a com nittee of the whole for discussion and Speaker White named MT. Dunn Chairman.
 When Speaker White was asked f he, as it's introducer had anything Q say regarding the memorial. he replied that he had nothing to sa, inless opposition to the memoria was presented, then, he added. h. would have much to say.
 Mir. Collins took the floor as the irst speaker on the memorial. H. began by reading it as it was intro iuced and has been published. He .irged that further consideration bs given to the measure before 1t wa adopted. He referred to Section ? of the text of the proposed League of Nations. which gives one vote t. each country represented at a con ference of the League. and questioned the advisability of allowing nations IS highly civilized and as far de veloped as the United States, but the same vote as China or Japan While Mir. Collins did not oppose the memorial, he recommended that inasmuch as the proposed League oi Nations was but a report of a com mittee and probably not yet complet ed. the memorial provide for the adoption of "a" League of Nations Instead of "the" League of Nations
 MT. White then took the floor. He said that, though he had not gone into the matter as thoroughly as some, he trusted to the judgment of the greatest citizens of the Unit ed States today President Wilson and ex-President William Howard Taft, who were earnestly urging that the League of Nations be adopted by the Peace Treaty.
 When the committee of the whole adjourned this afternoon they re- commended the memorial with the amendment that the word "a'' be used in its title instead of "the proposed" he M