The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-19
HOUSE MEASURE
 CARRYING FUNDS
 REACHES SENATE
Deficiency Bill Passes Second Reading - Political
 Bill Is Amended.

The general deficiency measure carrying approximately s20,000 for various departments and boards, House Bill No. 26, passed it's second reading In the Senate this morning. The largest items in the bill are for educational purposes, s6,000 for the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines and a slightly larger sum for uhe support of schools in incorporated towns to cover a deficit in the appropriation ending June 30. 1921.
 Senator Hunts bill prohibiting the use of secret traps, traps. buz- gers, etc, in soft drink establish ments, passed its second reading and was referred to the engrossment committee.
 Political Bill Amended.
 Senate Bill No. 90, providing for making nominees for Delegate ex- officio National Committeeman of their respective parties, was yester- day amended to require the election at the primaries of all divisional committeeman In the manner as originally provided for the Ma tional Committeeman It passed its eecond reading and was scheduled 10 be taken up today for final pas sage but had not been reached early this afternoon
 The Senate today took up Senator Hunts bill for the relief of the town of Petersburg for money ex- pended in handling a smallpox epi demic there in the fall of 1919. Henry Roden, who represented the flown of Petersburg in the action brought by the physician to recover professional fees, appeared before flie Senate and argued that the i0wn was rightly entitled to recom- pensation from the Territory under the Act of 1919, which, he con tended, applied to all parts of the Territory, including incorporated flown, with equal force.
 w MT. Chamberlin took issue with him and said that the Territory had to draw the line somewhere in the same time Petersburg was ex- perjencing it's smallpox epidemic, Seward and other towns in the Ter ritory were in like position and had never attempted to make a claim cn the Territory for their expenses so incurred.
 . The bill Senate Bill No. SS, was passed in it's second reading and is due 10 come up for final passage to- morrow.
 Other Bills Considered.
 Three measures were on the Sen ate calendar for this afternoon's session. One, No. S6, seeks 5000 for the construction of a school house at Haines. A second, No. 94, provides considerable enlargement of powois for Indian Councils of certain Indian villages. The third is the biii for the protection of the f0x farming industry. It is de- signed to take he place of four bills introduced in the Senate early in the session. It has been drafted by the Committee on Fish, Fisheries, and Game in consultation with rep resentatives of the ranchers organi- zation. Individual fox farmers and representatives of the Biological Survey and other Government de- partments.
 Suhsidv Measure Passes.
 The Senate yesterday afternoon, without a dissenting vote, passed the Decker ship subsidy measure to encourage coastwise shipping along Seward Peninsula. It carries total appropriation of $17,000 for the biennium and provides for subsidies for two routes one from Nome to KCtzebue and the second fro Nome 10 St Micnael. As the measure car ries an emergency provision it will become effective as soon as signed by the Governor.
 Prices memorial asking Congress to remove the statutory limitations from the Alaska Fund and turn over It's disposal to the Alaska Legisla