The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-16
MANY MEASURES REPORTED FROM
 SENATE TODAY
Committee of the Senate Get. ting Busy-New Bills
 Introduced.

The various committees in the Senate sprung 4Shour surprise this morning and instead of wait ing for next Monday, when reports ! were to be made on all bnls in conn mitteess. the reports were rushed in today Incidentally, several new bills were presented and, all in all, much activity resulted at the forenoon session.
 The report of the Grand Jury was received from the Governor and it was immediately ordered referred to the Attorney General to see if any of the recommendations should be followed out and laws presented as suggested.
 A request from the City Council of Ketchikan. signed by Mayor Thomas Torry, asking that an ex ception be made and that William Cantonurue be admitted to the Pic neers' Home, was referred to a com mittee.
 The request of the Territorial Fish Commission for extension of time to September for the payment of delinquent salmon taxes, went to the Fisheries Committed
 Work for Attorney General
 Senator Price introduced Senate Joint / Memorial No. 12, requesting that the Attorney General, at no extra expense, codify the Session Laws of previous and the present 
 House Joint Memorial No. 1. for a clerk for the Judiciary Committee. was passed unanimously.
 The Getchell eight hour bill was referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining
 House Joint Memorial No. 13, rel ative to annual assessment work of $100 on each claim, be paid in cash, referred to Mining Committee.
 House Bill No. 2, appropriation for the Agricultural College in the Interior, was referred to the Edu cation Committed
 Committees Make Reports
 Senate Concurrent Resolution No 2, relative to new fishing laws, was recommended to be adopted asI favorable action was taken and the bill will be printed
 s. B. No. 15. covering the deficien. cy appropriation off the Pioneers Home, was reported that it pass
 s, B. No. r and s. B. No. A, rela- tive to banking corporations, were reported to pass.
 s. B. No. AS. relative to publication of Session Laws, was placed on daily file with the recommendations
 s. B. No. 16, relative to deposits was recommneded to pass, with and placed on daily file.
 s. B. No. IS, guarantee to depos- itors, was recommended that it dol not pass and the bill was indefinitely postponed. Senator Hess stated there were too few banks in Alaska to provide support for the measure
 s. B. No. 40, abolishment of the Publicity Bureau. was recommended that it pass; s. B. No. 13, filing in ventories with Territory, received the same recommendation. but s. B.. No. 27, creation of a Library om- mission, came into the Senate with. out recommendation.
 Senate Joint Memorial No. 6, rela tive to better mail service to Yak utat, was recommended to pass.
 New Bills Presented
 Senate Bill No. 5O by Senator Frawley, relative to financial state. ments of foreign corporations, was introduced and referred
 Senate Bill No. 51. by Senator Hunt. by request, that telephone companies do not remove any appar- atus or wires from house without proper notification to owner of build ing and providing a fine for viola tion, went to the Finance Committee
 Senate Bill No. 52, by Senator Hess, relative to change in boun daries of incorporated towns, was referred to the Judiciary Committee
 House Joint Memorial No. H. rela- tive to extension of the Farm Loan Act to Alaska, was passed unani- mously.
 Senate Bill No. 49, relative to sending memorials and resolutions to the partie addressed, was amended to "an emergency act" and then unanimously passed.
 Adjournment was then taken until Monday morning at 10 o'clock.