The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-11
ROSS ROAD BILL
 IS RECOMMENDED IN LOWER HOUSE
Committee Suggests Minor Amendments - Sunday
 Opening Introduced.

morning the Committee on Roads and Highways recommended the passage of the Ross Road Bill with number of amendments covering minor defects but not altering the main features which provide for emasculation of the Territorial Road Board and conferring the powers it now possesses upon Divisional Com missions, creation of which is pro- posed in the Ross measure. Consid- eration of the measure will probably begin tomorrow morning
 Sunday Opening Law
 House Bill No. 21, by MT. Murray providing for certain places to do business on Sunday, was introduced and read the first time. The meas ure provides from and after the ap- full for any person Or persons con- ducting store or stand selling cigars and tobacco only, ice cream parlor. candy store, billiard room, ball alley, pool room natatorium or any place of amusement or recrea-
 
 traffic on the first day of the week commonly called Sunday or the Lords Day" Mr Elsner introduced House Bill No. 20, for the amend nent of Section 194O criminal code, Compiled Laws of Alaska, relative 10 wilful destruction of property Both bills were referred to the Com mittee on Judiciary. .J. se
 Mining Engineers Wanted
 House Joint Mer' orial No 15, by MT. Elsner, was il ,o'uced It asks that Congress appropriate sufficient funds to pay salaries and expenses for three or more additional mining engineers, acting as mining inspec- tors and aiding prospectors in the classification of minerals and in the solution of mining problems, under the direction of the U. S. Bureau of Mines.
 It is declared that this work is ''of prime importance" to the Terri tory and that it is impossible for a single inspector to do all the work that is necessary and that in the near future, the inspector now in the Territory will be compelled to spend a large portion of his time in connection with the coal mining industry. Under suspension of rules the memorial was passed to it's third reading and passed unanimously
 House Bill No. IT, relative to live stock inspection and providing means for partial reimbursement of owners of stock killed under it's authority w9s favorably reported by the Com mittee on Judiciary. The Committee on Mines and Mining favorably re- ported House Joint Memorial No. 12. by Mir Julien, relative to changes in mining assessment work require ments. House Joint Memorial No 4, by MT. Holt, asking for the es- tabishment of radio stations at, Bethel, Haycock. Teller, Kotzebue, Wiseman and Katalla, under susx pension of rules, was carried to itS1 third reading and passed by a unan- imous vote
 Gately Asks Aid
 
 Territory Martin Gately, formerly of Fairbanks and an oldtimer in } Alaska, in a telegram received by Sneaker Nerland and read in the House, declared that he is badly in need of financial assistance and re- cuested special act to be passed by the Legislature to take care of his case Mr. Nerland gave a short history of MT. Gately's situation and stated that he believed that he was } de9erying of consideration. MT Gately desires to return to Ireland, where he stated he has relatives. He asked that at least $1,000 be grant ed him in lieu of monthly pensions saying that that sum would take hir back to Ireland The communi- cation was referred to the Commit tee on Territorial Institutions.
 Committee of the Whole , In the consideration of House Bill No. 8. by MT Kettleson, for which was substituted a Committee Bill relative to laborers' lien on logs, , lumber and other timber repeating certain sections of the Compiled Laws of Alaska, the House in the Committee of the Whole spent the } greater part of its morning session. The bill was reported back favor ably to the House and passed it's second reading unanimously. 
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