The Alaska daily empire., 1921-03-15


 port of the committee of the whole the bill as amended in the commit
 The most important amendment i adopted by the committee changed the wording of the bill to leave itl discretionary with the Governor of the Territory as to calling elections on a ten-day notice to fill vacancies ! in either branch of the Legislature Instead of being directory as was ! provided in the original House measure. Several other minor amendments were proposed by the i Committee.
 The author of the measure, Rep resentative o. D. Cochrane. Of Nome, | has apparently won an uphill fight which at the time the measure was 1 transmitted to the Senate was seem ingly hopeless. Both today and yes ] terday, MT Cochran was accorded | the privileges of the Senate. He occupied the floor at various oc casions, skillfully piloting the ! threatened measure through the | committee, advising on committee amendments and presenting his case in such a manner as to swing what | at one stage of the proceedings was majority opposition to a predicted victory.
 Final Passage Delayed. After the Committee arose this afternoon, MT. Cochran said that all the amendments proposed in the ticfo C | he was concerned and would prob ably be accepted by the House. As the House adjour" ed shortly after o'clock today, final passage of the measure cannot be accomplished un til tomorrow morning.
 Virtually all of the morning ses sion today was devoted to the taken the danger point seemed to have been passed as the ten-day rroviso, so objectionable to sev eral Senators had been accepted without amendment The Senate as l committee of the whole completed It's work on the bill at 3:30 P. M. Cochran Leads Fight.
 
 tpon the floor of the Senate yester lay afternoon by the Senate in the committee of the whole, it was ap rarent that there was a well de- velOped opposition to the ten-day clause which for a time seemed to threaten it's passage President Sundback called Mr. Hess to the obo; hn1 n committee.
 MT Price moved to amend section one of the bill, containing the ob- jectionable time clause by amend ing section 1. Chapter "A, Session Laws 1919, the special delegate cleo ton law, to include filling vacan- cies in the Territorial Legislature and substituting the amended sec ion for section 1 of the Cochran bill The effect of the proposed amendment would have been to make tEe time for calling such cleo lion not less than 30 days. Priv ileges of the floor of the Senate were extended without objection to Rep resentative Cochran, who in eX- plaining the measure, stated that while it was virtually impossible to reach all ofthe voting precincts in the Second Division in the time provided in the House bill, under the ten day clause between 95 and 9S per cent of the voters of that Division would be able to be reach ed and could vote if they desired in : special election called hereunder
 Discussion Extended.
 Discussion of the provision was 2Xtended and general Both Sena- tors from the Third Division, MT Price and Chamberlin declared that the measure was not fitted to their district and openly declared their opposition tothe measure. Mir. Col lins talked on similar lines. Mir. Hess stated that such a law applied 70 the Fourth Division would de- priye many people of any chance to vote if the ten-day clause held Senator Britt said the same state ment held good for the First Di- sion. Senators Hunt a:pl sundback supported the original House measure
 After the amendment offered by Mi. Price had been defeated MT. Hunt moved the adoption of Sec ton l. of the measure without amendment Senator Price moved that the committee of the whole rise and report progress, the latter mo
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