The Cordova daily times., 1919-05-10
]MUCH0RAT0RY MARKS END OF
 LEGISLATURE

The 1919 Democratic session of the territorial legislature closed with a clash between Minority Leader Col. l'ns and those opposing appropriation TOT the agricultural college at noon Friday. It will go into history as the greatest log rolling, pork barrel ses. sion in the history of Alaska. When an appropriation bill Utterly bristling with money for bureaus and depart ments the organization closed in hour by hour until early Friday morning the bureau of publicity appropriation passed, and the program was cleaned up.
 Representative Pennington's desire to crate cost the Fourth division the agricultural appropriation. With the clock nearing the danger angle of 12 o'clock, Representative Pennington started an oration, while Minority Leader Collins tried frantically to get the floor to press a motion to recon slider the vote which had defeated the college appropriation. Pennington ''fid- dled while Rome burned" and Col lins was unable to get his motion in until Representative Began moved tEat the house adjourn sine die, which wa,s declared carried by Speaker White amid an uproar.
 The attempt to rid the session of the pork barrel broke Thursday, when Senators Hickman, Sutherland, Sund- back and Frawley served notice that the shipping bill would not pass until the appropriation bill passed the house and reached the senate. The house eliminated the publicity bureau and agricultural appropriations, and scnt the bill to the senate. The senate replaced $12,500 for the college, and sent the bill back to the house. Then the mice played while the cat was away. While the senate was passing the shipping bill the house substituted tho publicity bureau appropriation of $2O,000 in place of the college appro- priation of $12,50O. Then the fun started.
 All night long a conference com. mittee from senate and house were deadlocked. In the meantime all other legislation had been disposed of but the senate and house eight hour bills, one known as the Fraw- ley bill and the other the Dunn-Pen- nington bill Conference committees were also working on these measures, with both house and senate absolutely refusing to recede from their stand.
 Breakfast time came and with mem bers and clerks thoroughly worn out the survival of the Attest came. The Democrats suddenly deserted Senator Hess and Representative Nordale on the agricultural college appropriation, and started to put the squeeze for tie publicity appropriation. The ma. chine lobbyists were routed from bed, ard for three hours the lobbying went ahead.
 No Labor Legislation
 No labor legislation, either in the way of an eight-hour law or amend ment to the compensation act, passed tho 1919 session of the legislature. Although the laborites maintained a lobby, which early in the session claimed control of the situation, not a single labor bill was passed. One bill did get through the senate amend ing the compensation act but it was killed by a vote of II to in the house during the early hours of Fri day morning.
 Schools and Roads
 Schools and roads were we'll looked after All divisions except the First secured $100,00o for road work. The appropriation for the First division was $75,000. Over four hundred thousand dollars was appropriated for schools, including all the legislation of importance recommended by the office of the territorial superintendent of schools.
 Fisheries Legislation
 The legislature increased the tax IECAI AnVEpTTCEMENTH