The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-10
HOUSE PASSES SHEPARD PENSION BILL BY UNANIMOUS VOTE; FUNDS
 FOR DEFICIENCIES ARE PASSED

The Shepard pension bill, Hous Bill No. 1, increasing the Territori.. allowances to aged, needy residents passed the House this morning by unanimous vote. It provides fo maximum allowances Of $25 pc month to men and S45 to womcd. a3t permits beneftcianies oi tls act [, continue to draw their aiioa aaces after removing from the Territory re gardless of how long they remA.l.
 MT. Shepard was warmly eonertri ated by his colleagues on the pass sge of the bill. When the ClerX h.s announced the result of the roll. Hr Shepard said: "Gentlemen, .ianf .eu in the name of the Pioneers o Alaska With the exceptions n1-e, above the provisions of the bi.l arc virtually identical with those yi lf present. Jaw.
 Jury Bill Changed
 The Brown woman jury biii, SsH. a.e Bill No. 53, passed it's Second reading in the House this mvtn'ng amended to require jury service iron. yemen on the same basis as men the House voting 9 to 2 to strihe sub section &. which provided 10" ex- npting women on account tt sex. This same amendment was lost yes terday afternoon on a tie vote but was taken up again this morning on a motion by MT. Staser to recon sider, notice having been given by him yesterday that he would make such a motion today. The measure will come up for final passage tomor row.
 Deficiency Bill Passed
 House Bill No. 26, the general deficiency bill, carrying total oi $l9,974.31. passed the House this morning by vote of IA to ?, Murray and Callahan voting against passage Seven items are covered in the bill including the following amounts; bounty on wolves, S2,0O0; Board o Childrenis Guardians. $3.150; schools in incorporated towns for the perio, ending June 30, 1921. $6,29017; Agri cultural College and School of Mines S6,OO0; Alaska Fish Commission s2,4l5.64; Attorney Generals office $I00; old age allowances, $15.5O. Tn vote in passage was taken withou discussion.
 Decker Bill Passed
 Deckers bill providing subside for two water routes on the coast 0 Seward Peninsula, carrying a tota appropriation of $17,000, was passe unanimously. It provides for sut sidized route between Nome an Kotzebue with regular stops at il termediate points, the maximum al : nua subsidy being placed at $5,OoI and a second route from Nome St. Michael and intermediate points with an annual maximum subsidy c $3,5O0. Arrangements for the suf sidy and supervision over rates ar left in the hands of the Governor As the measure was originally intro duced, it provided that the subside should be arranged for, and rate controlled by the proposed Territof ial Board of Control.
 T. Asks Road Aid Extended
 House Joint Memorial No. 16, in troduced by MT. Daily asks Congress to extend to Alaska the full co operative provisions of the Fedora Highway Act with such modificationi as to the classifications as to roadi in the Territory as to make the Ac workable here. It declares that tn people of Alaska annually expen' more money for road building thai is spent by the people of any stat in the Union on the basis of com parative population and are anxlou to see the Federal government adop for the Territory a definite plan fo future road construction. Extension as proposed, of the Federal Highwa, Act, it is declared, would insure such a program and be of great bene fit to the Territory.
 Animal Industry Board
 In House Bill No. 29, also intro duced by MT. Daily. the establishment of a Board for the Development O Animal industry" is provided for. Tn bill carries an appropriation of $100, coo to enable the proposed board t' function.
 1.-The Board would be composed 0 the Governor, Secretary and Treasur ar of Alaska. Its duties would con sist of aiding and encouraging tn raising of reindeer, yak, musk-oxeI and fur-bearing animals by the pun chase of breeding stock; the dis posal of sucr stock to persons en gagged in raising such animals; ex perimenting in the methods of breed ing, raising, handling and marketing such animals and the products 0 the same. the scientific study of dis eases and parasites affecting them and of the proper forage and plant for such animals; and, to that end to hire instructors and publish an disseminate information relating { those matters.
 Cooperation with the Bureau c Biological Survey and of the State of Agriculture is authorized and d Relation Service of the Departmen rected in carrying out the duties enl merated It is also provided th2