The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-04
HEAVY PROBLEMS CONFRONT SOLONS OF MANY STATES
45 State Legislatures Con- vene or Prepare to With
 Formidable Programs Up.

NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-Legislatures of forty-one states and territories, many of which opened their ses- sions yesterday or today, have be fore them formidable programs of tax reform, dry enforcement, election redistricing in accordance with the 920 census, soldier bonuses, public improv ements laws for husbands and wife, industrial and suffrage legis lation, state aid for farmers, boxing commissions, new financing, re- trenchment by consolidation or abolition of state departments, anti radicalism, automobile regulation. reorganization of state militias, re- lief for public utilities, amendment or repeal of primary laws. commis- sion or manager" plans for cities and counties and pro and anti-blue law enactments.
 California, with it's ambitious $750, 1000 statewide irrigation project, leads the states in the mat | ter of proposed public improve ments and will ask the Legislators to authorize survey of the con- templated enterprise Colorado also has a big mountain tunnel in con temptation. West Virginia solons will be required to pass laws at the session opening January 15 providing for the expenditure of $50, ,000,0 ,000 for building good roads, for which the people voted a bond issue at the recent election. Missouri also must provide $60, 900 road i building legislation.
 State Constabulary.
 | Establishment of a state constab- Iulary urged largely by farmers, and enactment of a bill legaIizing box ing, in addition to a proposal to 1 repeal her state primary law, held ! unconstitutional by the State Su~ i preme Court, will be taken up ty 1 the Legislature of Illinois sometime after that body meets for it's open ing session next Wednesday, Fights against primary laws are to be made also in Indiana, Missouri, Ne braska, New York, New Mexico. North Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont and Wyoming
 1 Vermont liberals" plan an at tack on the blue laws of the State i insofar as they relate to observance of the Sabbath. An effort win be made 1t is said, to modify the present statutes so as to permit amateur sports, particularly baseball on sunday where the sport is not commercialized. Local option such as exists in Massachusetts, enabling l individual cities and towns to de ] termine their own practice in the matter of Sunday games, will be sought. New Hampshire, Penn, sylyania, and South Dakota gre also ] expected to discuss anti-blue laws California, meanwhile, will argue the merits or demerits of a Sunday closing bill.
 0rientals Aimed At. Roorganization of the state iud- ieiary system and a constitutional amendment proposing that none but 1 American citizens, native or fully naturalized. be allowed the right Of suffrage in Texas will be before the law-making body at Austin, ! Tex. beginning January IL An ! ether Texas bill would excluce Orientals from acquiring land with in the state. Kansas representa- tiyes will have bills before them
 providing state aid for highway
 construction and financial assist
 ance to farmers in purchasing
 homes.
 Capital punishment. as a result
 of legal discussion over the Cole
 Grammer murder case, will con front the Nebraska Legislature and
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