The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-27
HOUSE APPROVES REPORT ON JURY
 DUTY FOR WOMEN
Bill with Sex Exemption Clause Passes = Prices
 Fish Bill Discussed.

Supporters of optional jury service for women won a complete victory when the House this morning adopt ed the recommendations of it's con ference committee on Senate Bill No 53. the so called Brown womens jury bill. A short time after the House acted the Senate likewise adopted the conference report and the bill was safely through both Houses.
 The sex exemption clause, the source of all the trouble over the bill passed amended to read that women could claim sex as an exemp- ton from jury service provided it was done by signing a written or printed notice within two days after served with a subpoena to report for jury duty. The measure had close call in the House, where the vote on final passage stood nine for and seven against, Decker, Murray. Cole, Policy, Staser, Shepard and Raelson voting against adoption The Sen- atte adopted It's report unanimously.
 Price Fish Bill Up
 MT. Prices bill limiting the fishing season and dividing the Territory into three fisheries districts was con sidered at length by the House in Committee of the Whole this morn ing. The main purpose of the bill according to MT Price, is to estab- fish whether or not the Territory cal legislate in any way on fisheries. l. is not expected that the bill. if en- acted, will operate to cut the opera tions of canneries during the next biennium, but will enable test cases to be brought to determine the Terri torys rights in the premises and if it is upheld in the courts, make it pos act a law adequate to protect the sible for the next Legislature to en- fisheries.
 ; It is provided in the bill that 1t shall not become effective until Jan uary I, 1924. If it becomes law, it is the intent that one test case shall be instituted by the Territory and pushed to a conclusion by the time the Legislature meets in 1925. If it is upheld, said MT. Price, cannerymen with a practical knowledge of the fishing business will come here and cooperate with the Legislature in 1925 in passing a law that will desig- nate the most desirable fishing sea sons, and determine the zones to which they will apply.
 Zipf Says Will Cooperate
 A. F. Zipf. who with l R. Heck man appeared on the floor by special invitatfon, said if sufficient safe guards were put in the bin to assure that the industry, particularly the small canners. would not be injured by the operations of the law in test ing its validity, he had no objection to voice. AS far as it might be within his power, he added, he would ask the canners to cooperate with the Territory in securing test.
 Mir. Heckman was opposed to the passage of the bill. If the Legisla tiire has the right to pass any fish cries law, he said, it should pass one limiting the packs, which he con { tended is the only way to achieve protection for the salmon supply.
 The biI was continued in second reading at the close of the morning session in order that additional might be offered.
 The bill provides that the Terri tory shall be divided as follows: the Southeastern district extending to Yakutat; the central district from Yakutat to Seldovia. and the western district from there westward. In the first district a 40-day fishing season is provided, in the second a 30-day and in the third 20-day fish ] ing season. A new section was added prohibiting combinations of