The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-11
AMENDED WOMEN
 JU KY BILL HAS. NARROW ESCAPE.
House Passes Brown Women Jury Bill by Small Margin
 Returned to Senate.


 The bill now goes back to the Sen- ate which, it is believed, will re- fuse to concur in the amendment made by the House, thus making a conference necessary.
 Chairman Price, of the Judiciary Committee, declared the bill with out the sex exemption clause covers the referendum submitted to and carried by the woman voters last November It Is what the women have said they want and members should vote for it. he urged.
 Mir Decker contended that few women voted on the subject and added that there is a decided dif- ference of opinion as to just what the women did vote for. Tt was not real referendum" he asserted
 Murray Opposes Bill.
 Mir. Murray also argued that the expression of opinion by the women electors in the last election on jury service did not constitute a genuine referendum. He quoted Gov. Riggs message vetoing the referendum act and declared it was purely a piece of class legislation. Followed out, he eontenGed, it would lead to ref erendums by lawyers, barbers and others for laws affecting only them selves. That kind of referendum doesn't mean anything at all to me-" he asserted.
 Mir. Wilson said because he did not favor compulsory jury duty be- ing required of women, he was compelled to vote against the bill, while MT. Daily, also opposed to re- quiring the service on the same basis as for men, voted against it.
 College Bill Introduced.
 The so-called agricultural bloc" in the House this morning was sur prised when Representative Foster in reduced bill appropriating $46,000 for the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines for maintenance and conduct of the college during the school years 1923-24 and 1924-25," and requir- ing that $10,000 of that sum be expended for the establishment of College Extension Courses ''in such different towns of the Territory as may be specified by the Governor The bill also contains an inhibition against expenditure of more thar the $45,000 carried by the Act.
 Some argument was caused when Speaker Cole referred the bill to the Ways and Means Committee, MT. Daly and others arguing it should properly first be sent to the Com mittee on Education and later to Ways and Means. A motion by Mir. Price to refer it to the Committee on Education, seconded by the author of the bill, was carried un- animously
 Antidope Bill Introduced.
 A stringent narcotics" preven- tative act, House Bill No. 31, was introduced this morning by Repre- sentative Policy. It provides: Tt shall be unlawful for any person to sell, furnish or dispose of, or hafe in his possession with intent to sell. furnish or dispose of any mar cotic drug. or drugs, except upon a written and signed prescription of g physician regularly licensed to practice medicine and surgery who has complied with the regulations of, and is duly registered under the laws of the Territory of Alaska, and the laws of the Congress of the United States All such prescrip- lions shall be written with ink or indelible pencil, and must contain the name and address of the person for whom prescribed and the nature of the ailment, the date written, the office address and Federal reg istration number of the physician, all of which data must be placed on such prescriptions by the physician writing the same" Such prescrip- tions may be filled but once. Per- sons procuring drugs on them are required to sign them and they are required to be kept on file by the druggist for a period of two years.
 The bill further provides: Tt shall be deemed a violation of this Act for any person to have in his or her possession any narcotic drug, or preparation or compound containing the same in unexempt quantities, unless the same shall have been ob- tained pursuont to this Act and to the laws of the Congress of the United States and rules and regula- lions now in force or hereafter pro- mulgated hereunder, and proof of ehe possession of any such narcotic drug, except by a licensed physi- clan, licensed manufacturer or li- censed druggist shall be prima facie evidence of an intent to unlawfully sell. furnish or dispose of the same"
 Violations of the act are declared to be felonious and punishable upon conviction by Imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one or more than 25 years. Section four provides that ''every person who habitualiy uses any narcotic drug shall be guilty of misdemeanor." House Bill No. 32, by MT. Decker, provides for the repeal of Capter s, Gaseion Laws of 1919, amending s,rbdivisiol1 first. Section 1,105, Com