The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-04

ed represented a compromise Detweei the Senate and House. It provide. as follows: One per cent of the ne income in excess of S10.000 and no in excess of $500,000, and on all in come in excess of $500.000 and not il excess of $1,000,000. 12 per cent, ant on all incomes over s1,0O0,000, 1% per cent" The fisheries rate wa identical with that passed by thu Senate except it cut out the fina raise on the highest packs.
 Pass Many Bills
 The session will go down in his tory as one of the busiest in the first decade of territorial government in Alaska. A total of 104 measures were passed out of the lS0 intro duced Contrary to the experience of former Legislatures. most of the bills were introduced in the Senate in stead of originating in the lower House. In the upper House l2O bills were presented and 50 in the House
 Sixty mine Senate bills were en acted and 35 House bills. Nine o1 dhe iSenateis bills were either los lon final passage CT indefinitely post 'Tioned in the House, while the Senate Killed six for the House. The latter sdaFeated or indefinitely postponed Il Hef its own bills, one was laid on tht 1able, one was withdrawn and Six vlumbered to death in committees.
 As usual the House surpassed l. .seH in the introduction of memorials Twenty4two of these were brought in 1on almost as many different subjects .-All but six of these wore passed. A considerable number of resolutions were also introduced
 w Fisheries Popular Subject
 The subject of fisheries occupied much of the time of the Legislature bills, memorials and resolutions beini Introduced on various phases of tn ;industry. The first law ever passe by Territorial Legislature was pu on the statute books to attempt Tel ,ritorial regulation of fishing opera lions, largely due to the initiativ and hard work of Representativ Thomas c. Price, aided by the pei ssonal influence of J. R. Heckman who was mainly responsible for tn provisions in the bill which becam Jaw. In addition to the Price lbA the Legislature passed second 'bil as a part of a resolution offered b Representative w. D. Grant of WraI gell, which will be presented to coI gress with request that it be enac ed into law Memorials were passe condemning the fisheries resery' pOlicy of the Federal government passed at the request of Delegat' Sutherland, who remained here dur dng a large part of the term. 4 resolution directing the Attorney Gen eral to take steps to test the validit, pf Presidential orders creating fisf reserves was passed but failed to pass over veto of Governor Bone, and the 5000 appropriation to cover expenses of this contemplated action which passed the House in the gen eral appropriations bill, was stricken from the measure by tine Senate and was not reinstated in conference
 Enlarge Compensation Act
 The subject of industrial insurance was given considerable attention b, the Legislature. What is general, regarded as one of the most i'm portant bills passed dealt with this subject and extended the workmen' compensation act heretofore applying only to the mining industry, to vir tually all other industries in the Territory and increasing by 30 per cent the amounts of compensation to injured workmen allowed under the old law. This bill was drawn up originally by Senator Aver, who also wrote most of the amendments later adopted. It was guided through the Senate by him and Senator Dimond and through the House largely by Representative Daily. The state monopolistic industrial system bill introduced in the House by Repre- sentatives Wilson and Decker and IT the Senate by Senator Brown failet of passage when at was brought tt the floor of the Senate.
 The subject, however, may be givel serious consideration by the 192' Legislature. This is indicated by tht fact that in the general appropra