The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-03
HOUSE MUTILATES'
 BILL TO RELIEVE. SCHOOL QUESTION:
Amendment Depriving School Board Is Passed by House
 on Senate Bill.

winch was intended OTlSlndlly dS Il means of bolstering up the author ,ty of boards of education in handling the question of permitting Nat ve children unrestricted entry into the public schools of Alaska All pc visions for that purpose were strick en by the adoption of House amend ments.
 Kills Senate Bill.
 Senate Bill No. 63, a Board of Education measure which sought to eive the several School Boards ab- solute authority to control or limit entrance to schools, met with se- we're handling in the House Com mittee of the Whole this morning The measure, it was staLed by Com missioner of Education .H anderson on the floor of,athe House. was de signed to empower the school boards to meet the, question Df;7what Ma lives should be permitted" to enter local schools. .'
 This power was sought under two new sections proposed for addition to the present school law, one of which stated that the school boards with in or without incorporated towns or incorporated school dis tricts, may in their discretion. eX- clude from such schools all children who are incOrrigible or are living immoral lives or in immoral envir- onment; whom they shall find are of uncleanly or insanitary habits. or who live in uncleanly or insani- tary homes; who are afflicted with any contagious, repulsive or com municable disease or injury; or who live in homes where any communi- cable or contagious disease exists :: WI Ose parents or guardians are not living a civilized life; children over whom the Government of the United States has assumed direct jurisdic- tion; or children for whose educa- tion the Congress has made appro- priCtions from the Treasury of the United States, or has undertaken to provide for through the Secretary of the Interior or the Federal Com missioner of Education.' The sec ond paragraph, intended to. provide for defending actions of the boards, authorized the Attorney General to appear before any court of justice to represent the school boards but without expense to the Territory.
 The Committee of the Whole adopted an amendment striking out all of the first section named, but in its report to the House no recom- Lendation was made relative to the amendment, the report merely stat ing that the measure had been duly considered.
 Paul Enters Protest.
 William l.. Paul, being granted the privileges of the floor, declared that he represented the Alaska Ma. tive Brotherhood as its Grand Sec rotary. He opposed the adoption ol the provisions of the bill aimed al the Native situation declaring tha, it reposed too great a power in thu hands of the school boards, some O. whom, he alleged, had on occasion. unjustly discriminated against Ma tive children desiring to enter pub lie schools.
 Wrangell School Involved.
 Commissioner Henderson. answ CT ing some of the statements made by MT. Paul, stated that the bil was an. outgrowth of the Wrangel situation where at the instigation O the Alaska Native Brotherhood tn, Federal Bureau of Education re gently proposed to abandon thei school and 1t waA proposed to at tempt to force the Native childre, on tho public school. The eviden desire of the Alaska Brotherhood t, do likewise in other towns, he de clared, made some such action q proposed necessary. The Natives, h said, were opposed to the Fedora schools and he charged that a state ment had been made at gather ing of members of the Alaska Natiy Brotherhood to the effect that the wished it were possible to put stick of dynamite under ever Bureau of Education School an blow them sky high.
 Amendments Passed. In addition to amending the bi cutting out the section bestowin additional power on the schot boards. the Committee of the Whol also adopted amendments providin for the election of the Commissione of Education beginning at the 192 session of the Territorial Legislatur by a joint session of that body i, stead of by the senior members ( the Senate.
 Game Bill Tabled.
 House Concurrent Resolution N, 8. the bill providing for Territori; control of game, which was pr, rared for introduction by the A aska Fish and Game Club, ws tabled this morning on motion ( MT Ross without a dissenting vot The motion stated that it be lai on the table to be taken up whe other business had been cleare away.
 Senator Britt's bill for Territori Cantral af Uy sh av-io oo Wao alSA f. hlx