The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-12
PLAN LAUNCHED TO PARTICIPATE
 IN EXPOSITION
Senate Passes Resolution to Participate Tn 1926
 Philadelphia Fair.

A movement to nave Alaska par l ticirate in the Sesqui-Centennia Ex
 position at Philadelphia in 1926. was officially launched today when the Senate by unanimous vote passed a resolution introduced by the Judiciary Committee providing for the creation of Commission of seven members to prepare plans for such participa- ton to be submitted to the Legisla- ture of 1925.
 The resolution provides that the Senate shall name two of it's mem bers and the House four. who with ahe Governor shall constitute a Sesqui Centennial Commission. The Territory was recently formally in vited to arrange for taking part in the exposition, the invitation being received by Governor Bone and by him transmitted to the Legislature.
 New Bills Introduced
 Three new bills were introduced in the Senate today. No. 92, by Mir Dimond by request, is for an Act 10 provide that no costs shall be taxed against the defendant in any criminal case or proceeding in any Cf the courts in Alaska No. 93, by the Committee on Rules, Elections and Election Laws, for an Act pro- It is a companion measure to House Bl No 35. introduced today by Mr. Decker
 No. 94 is entitled Bill for An Act 10 amend Chapter II, of the Alaska Sessicn Laws of 1915. entitled An Act to provide for local self-govern- ment in certain native villages in the Territory of Alaska" and would be stow on such villages virtually all of the powers held by incorporated towns of the second class, including the power to assess, equalize and collect general tax on property within the corporate limits, to clothe the Indian magistrate and peace off cers with more extended authority and include in their jurisdiction all persons residing in the villages, in cluding the whites, power to pass and enforce compulsory school attendance ordinances, reduce the number ot councilmon from 12 to ,, changes the method of election and in other respects enlargeB on the Act of 1915. Several Indians. including residents of kake and Angoon, accompanied by W. l.. Paul, appeared before the Judiciary Committee yesterday urging the passage of the bill.
 Asks Repeal Mining Law Repeal of the Act of Congress of August l, 1912, relative to the loca- ton of placer mining claims in Al aska, 37 Statutes at Large. PAP. is asked for in Senate Joint Memorial No. 9. introduced by Mr. Aver. The act Is declared to be defective and Is source of much doubt and confu sion to prospectors and miners. The subject. it is asserted, is more fa- miliar to the Alaska Legislature than to Congress and the memorial de- clares: Upon this particular sub ject the Alaska Legislature is best l, 1912, was passed and approved be- fore the passage or approval of the act creating this assembly. No req son apparent to your memorialists now exists why the Act of Con- gress of August 1, 1912, should not be repealed and legislation on the subject matter of the act left to the Legislature of Alaska"
 Takes Up Haines Bill
 The Senate took up considerable portion of the morning session today in discussion in Committee of the Whole of the bill asking for $5,O0O floor the obstruction of school house