The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-05
HOUSE DEFEATS
 BILL AIMED TO STOP PUBLICITY
Refuses to Abolish Publicity Bureau-Cleans Up Many
 Small Measures.

Disregarding the report of the Jul dietary Committee recommending that Senate Bill No. 40, providing forthe abolshment of the Terri torial Bureau of Publicity, do pass the House last night by a vote of Il to 4. defeated the measure. Those voting to kill the Bureau were Rep resentatives Brown, Cochran and Jul lien of the Second Division, and Ross of the Fouth One member was absent when the vote was taken.
 Cochran Advocates Passage
 Representative Cochran, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, advocat- ed the passage of the bill, declaring that he had heard of nothing that the publicity department had accom- plished for the benefit of the Ter ritory. He said that he beiveed it was wasting money to continue it in it's present form and that he had been unable to devise any other method of publicity.
 MT. Tripp, coming to the defense of the Bureau, declared that it was functioning to the benefit of the Territory and should be kept going. Mir Elsner stated that the Bureau had done good work. He asserted that it had been handicapped in it's efforts on account of the failure of the various commercial organizations in the Territory to cooperate with it. If the business men of Alaska would get back of the Bureau and furnish it with the data and infor- nation which is needed to set forth the advantages and opportunities of the several sections of the Terri tory, it would be able to do much more than it so far has accomplished he declared
 Advertising Is Necessary
 When business is at a low ebb, that is the time the business man does his heaviest advertising de- clared MT. Lathrop. He urged con tinued Territorial advertising as one of the most effective means of se- curing needed capital and enterprise for development. MT. Holt also spoke briefly in favor of continued publicity.
 Appropriation Is Needed
 While the Bureau was saved from being wiped out last night, the question of finances was not solved The general appropriation bill car ries only s1,000 for publicity pur. poses which was inserted to give the Governors office a small fund to wind up such correspondence and other matters that might be left over in case the department was abol- ished. Members of the House, who favored the retention of the depart ment, last night expressed them selves as hoping that sufficient funds could be obtained by amending the appropriations measure to enable the publicity work to go ahead on a substantial scale.
 Other Proceedings
 The House yesterday evening re fused to concur in Senate amend ments to Senate Bill No 31, fixing a schedule of taxes on furs and i'm posing fur licenses on dealers, buy CTS and fur farmers. House Bill No 20 relative to wilful destruction of dams, intakes. pipe lines, etc, was finally disposed of when the House adopted the recommendations of the Committee on Free Conference The House also concurred in Senate sub stitute for House Bill No 25, mak- ing employers of contract labor lia- ble for expenses incurred by the Territory of the Federal Govern ment in providing medical or other aid to such labors engaged in season al occupations. House Bill No. 43 extending the period of appropria- tions for the support of schools in incorporated towns. was passed and sent to the Senate. Senate Bill No T. providing for administration by the Territory of estates of deceased inmates of the Pioneers Home or persons drawing allowances from the Territory, was passed last night