The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-14
HOUSE PENSION BILL APPROVED
 IN THE SENATE
Shepard Bill Passes Second Reading - Controller
 Bill Is Continued.

Unamended, except in two places 1 to clear up the meaning of the pro- visions. the Shepard bill increasing old age allowances to aged residents | of the Territory passed it's second relding in the Senate today. Before i it was taken up., however, way for action had been cleared for it by the withdrawal by Senator Aldrich of a similar measure introduced by him and the bill for home at Skag- way for pioneer women. of which he was also the author.
 An effort was defeated to amend the provision of the Shepard bill by which payment of pensions to per sons after they remove from the Ter ritory and establish permanent resi-. dence elsewhere. The amendment was offered by Senator Snodgrass and a division showed, Hunt, Aldrich and Snodgrass supporting it, with Aver, Brown. Chamberlin and Dunn opposing. Virtually all members ex- pressed the belief that this section of the measure might be too broad
  given a twoyear trial and if il proved unsatisfactory the bill could be amended by the 1925 Legislature.
 Bills Are Continued
 The Senate measure making party nominees for Delegate to Congress ex-officio national committeeman for their respective parties, which was slated for discussion today, was con- tinued on the daily file at the re- quest of Senator Chamberlin, who said he was waiting to hear from his constituency on the subject.
 Senator Aldrich's Territorial Board of Control bill and the substitute of fered for it by the Committee on Rules. Elections and Election Laws, was continued until Monday at the request of Senator Aldrich. It has been on the calendar since early this week. action in the meantime being confined to a reading in Committee of the Whole of the substitute. The original bill has net yet been read in full
 House Bill No. IS, advancing the | time for filling of candidates for | primary elections, passed the Senate by vote of s to 2 House Bill No. 23 amended by the Senate to require monthly paydays by canneries to per sons in their employ, was continued on the daily file for further dis cussion.
 New Bill Introduced
 Under the provisions of Senate Bill No 100, introduced this morning by Senator Chamberlin, it is proposed too raise the salary of Commissioner of Education from $4000 to S5,000 per year. The bill also defines in detail the necessary qualifications for Ipersons before they shall be eligible for appointment as follows: "The person chosen as Commissioner oi Education shall be a graduate of a standard college or university and shall have had not less than foui years of experience as a school super iintendent CT supervisor in an ac credited city school system or in z state school system at the time ht is appointed to the position
 Suggests Moving Bureau
 Removal of the headquarters 0 Supt. w. T. Lopp, Alaska Superin tendent for the Federal Bureau 0 Education, from Seattle to Juneau l is recommended in Senate Joint Me : morial No. 10, which was introduce | today by Senator Hunt. The req . sons advanced are: that the presen location in Seattle is so far from tn l scene of the Bureaus work that { works a hardship upon the Indian 3 and Eskimos over whom it has supel . vision; that the distance separatin headquarters from it's field of wor