The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-14
ALASKA MUSEUM
 BUILDING FUND,
 S40,000 FAVORED
Com init tee Recommends Passage Policy Bill = Fish
 Commission Money Asked.

Forty thousand dollars was recom- mended this morning by the House Committee on Ways and Means for the erection of a building for the Territorial Museum and Historial Library in a favorable re- port on the measure introduced early in the session by Representa- tive Policy. It also recommended the salary of $2.100 for the curator of the institution.
 The report was signed by all members of the committee except two. Staser and Price, who refused to concur.
 Fish Bill Introduced.
 A bill asking for an appropria- tion of s125,O00 for the Alaska Fish Commission for the current biennium was introduced in the House today by MT. Raelson, It calls for the establishment of four fish hatcheries. one near Seward, enc near Chitina. and the third and fourth somewhere in the First Di- vision. It limits the expenditure on each of the contemplated hatcheries to s10,O00 for construction and ST. 500 for operations and maintenance. The remainder of the appropriation is for operation for the hatcheries already established and general op- erating ! and maintenance expendi- lures.
 The measure also provides that no, deficit may be incurred by the Commission during the next bien- nium. requiring 1t to keep strictly within the limits of the appropria- ton.
 Interest Bill Defeated.
 The Decker bill providing for the establishment of a legal loan rate of interest at eight per cent per annum was defeated this morning by vote of 12 to f, Decker, Wilson, Raelson and Grant voting for it.
 Senate Bill 51. making it a crime to alter earmarks, or brands on fox, and No. S5, changing the time for filing affidavits of annual labor on mining claims to coincide with the change in time fss doing such work from the calendar to the fiscal year, were passed by the House.
 House Bill No. 12, Callahan's measure providing for a tax on railroads of S100 per mile, was amended exempting new railroads for a period of 10 years, railroads under 10 miles in length. while an amendment exempting roads under 200 miles long was defeated. The bill will come up on third reading and for final passage Monday
 Against Higher Tax. The Committee on Fisheries, Fish and Game, today recommended that the present tax on herring and her. ring products be allowed to stand ] during the current biennium at the same figures prevailing during the not concurred in by Foster and Price The Committee made the re- port after studying the recently re- ceiyed telegrapnic protest signed by fifteen herring packers having plants in the Territory.
 Introduce Memorials. MT. Shepard today introduced House Joint Memorial No. 19, en- dorsing the proposed dredging of the Gastineau Channel bar and put ting a canal across the portage be- tween Hawk Inlet and Young's Bay and asking that Congress immed- lately appropriate sufficient money to carry both projects to compile tion.
 Mr. Raelson yesterday introduced House Joint Memorials No. IT and IS, the first asking that the Secre- tary of Agriculture have prepared and publish bulletin covering wild life in. Alaska in popular vein, and the second similarly prepared bull letin on fish in Alaskan waters, both for use in the Alaska schools.
 Prepare for Ball.
 The preparations for the usual Legislative ball. given by members of both Houses to their local friends, was started this morning in the House when committee was ap- pointed to act with a similar con- mittee from the Senate in making the necessary arrangements. The Committee named is composed of Speaker Cole, and Representatives Wilson and Johnston.