The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-25
ALASKA MINING
 BOARD BILL IS
 THROUGH HOUSE
: carries Appropriation of $40, ,000-Many Other
 Measures Passed.
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money and transmitting it to the Supervising Engineer of the Bureau of Mines, and submitting to the lat ter requests for investigation of mineral areas or other Assistance. The entire work of the Board is sub iect to the approyal of the Super yising Engineer
 Mr. Cole was the only member speaking against the measure He said he based his opposition on the control of the fund being vested in such a board and that if it wore placed directly sinPfhe hands of the Supervising Mining Engineer he termed the Board a Board of Con- fiict, and totally unfit to administer the duties prescribed
 Others Defend Measure.
 Several members defended the measure and urged that the pro- posed Board was desiged as a body to represent the Territory in carry ing out the provisions of the Act. if passed. MT. Daly paid a splendi1 compliment to E. D. Stewart, Super vising Mining Engineer of the Bureau of Mines, reviewing his pro fessional career briefly. The fact that the fund would be under his direction and the work of the Board subject to his approval for the next two years, he argued, was sufficient safeguard. Representatives Keys, Foster. Policy, Priceand Ross spoke for it's passage. MT. Decker said he believed that the board would mere ly result in duplication of the work of the Alaska College.
 Price Bill Defeated.
 MT. Prices bill to abolish the of flee of Attorney General was defeat ed by n vote of 13 to 3. Foster, Staser and Price voting for its pas sage. Mir. Price explained the meas ure was not aimed at Mir Rustgard personally but had been introduced because he was convinced that the Territory could obtain more efficient services without as much cost by the employment of counsel when it " e'S ANtNo@ti u DCCOlllC dn established practice for special ap- propriations to be made whenever any additional work is given the Attorney General to do, he said pointing out particular instances. Opponents of the measure argued iti would not be good business to at tempt to run the Territory without regular legal representation in its 
 House Bill No. 56, Prices binI District Judges to en- power notaries public in remote re- gions to issue marriage licenses passed by vote of 13 to ?, one being absent. Mir. Decker said he feared it would cause lot of trouble but would not oppose it. He said that missionaries coming to Alaska from the Outside sometimes nave difficulty in reconciling their | deas of morality to the customs of the Indians and Eskimos, and [ tightly so,' and that in some cases .hey might take advantage of the power so extended to eoerce mar 'iages which ought not to take i ,lace.
 House Bill No. 33. by Mir Staser y request. the so-called anti-high- | trading bill, was defeated by a vote | If 12 to 4. It was argued that the i Jill would impose hardships on op- 'rators and miners in remote dis ricts. House Bill No. 34, also by dr. Staser. for the protection Of ssays, punishing false assays and interference with samples of ore in- ended for assays, passed unani- nously. Other House bills passed included: No. P. revising the fur