The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-08
CETCHELL EIGHT
 HOUR BILL GETS
 BACK ON FLOOR
Favorable Report by Major ity of Committve-Min-
 ority Report to Be Had.


 lting the hours of labor in mills, sawmills, factories, laundries, manu-
 featuring plants and certain other
 industries, was favorably reported out of the Committee on Capital
 Labor and Immigration in the House
 this morning Following the read i ing of the report MT. Cochran stated that a minority adverse report would
 be presented tomorrow and asked
 the bill be held from the daily cal endar until Monday, which request
 was granted.
 House Proceedings
 A communication was received ] from the Senate saying that it had I ,oncurred in House amendments to | Senate Bills Nos. IA and 15 amend
 ing Territorial laws on Banking cor
 )orations and trust companies, and
 hat House Concurrent Resolution
 No. 6, inviting Secretary Fall to visit Alaska had been passed under suspension of rules.
 House Concurrent Resolution No.
 S. authorizing the Secretary of the
 Territory to forward all memorials,
 resolutions and petitions when passed
 70 their proper destination was in | reduced by MT. Cochran. MT COch- an stated that he presented the resolution at the request of the | Clerk of the House and the Secre-
 tary of the Senate and that memor- l ialg atn oI, ho
 stature were accommodating on the l hands of the clerks who had no au
 hority to forward them to anyone. Ie moved that the rules be suspend d and the resolution put on final passage. MT. Holt objected to the procedure, saying that the House jhould abide by it's rules. Mir. Ross md MT. Kettleson also objected to | final action until members had an | opportunity to study the resolution. l On vote the motion was lost ten i members, or less than the required | ng for it It was referred to the
 committee on Judiciary.
 Women Jurors Unfavored In a unanimous report submitted | by the Committee on Judiciary, it
 "as recommended that Senate Bill No 29, by Mr Collins, extending ury duty to women "dO not pass" 1 The bill was placed on the daily i 'ile. House Bill No. 10, seeking
 amendment and repeal of Section | ,539 Compiled Laws of Alaska, and | Senate Bill No. 26, by MT. Cham | berlin, requiring convicted persons l O answer certain questions, were al
 so unfavorably reported by the 1 House Judiciary Committee. Senate
 Joint Memorial, by MT. Hess, rela- l i've to a geological survey of the | Arctic regions of Alaska, was favor
 ,bly reported by the same commit | 'ee
 House Bill No IS, an Act to amend | Chapter 10 Session Laws 1919, was l introduced by MT. Cochran and was | "eferred to the Committee on Mines,
 Mining and Manufacture. House Joint Memorial No. IA, by MT Ross, endorsing the 10-year road construc- | tion program of the Alaska Road Commission and asking Congress for an appropriation of $955,000 to cover he current estimates of the Commis- sion passed it's second reading
 House Bill Killed House Bill No. II. introduced by
 Mir. Kettleson by request. defining the words judicial officer" and re- lating to disqualification of Federal Judges in certain instances. selection of judges pro tempore, and change of venue, was indefinitely postponed by a vote of 15 yeas and one nay. Mir. Kettleson voting against post ponement. House Joint Memorial No. II, by MT Rickert, relative to extension of the Federal Farm Loan Act. and Federal cooperative road building acts to Alaska, passed unan- imously.
 Collins Resolution Passes Carrying authority for the Attor- ney General to use all proper means to test the validity of Section 27 of the General Shipping Act of Con gress passed June :. 1920, Senate Concurrent Resolution No. ,, by Mir. Collins. was unanimously passed by the House. II now goes to the Sen ate for transmission to the proper authorities.
 Committees Meet
 Announcement was made that
 there would be a joint meeting of the House and Senate members com / nosing the Legislative Investigating Committee of the Pioneers Home to-
 day Chairman Rickert also announc