The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-04

for the Territorial Legislature tt confer citizenship on any person bu equally impossible for it to deprive them of it. He declared that the proposed law was more stringent thar the Washington literacy law, whicf he quoted He declared the Indians are citizens and entitled to vote.
 He attacked the bill for leaving i mp to the judges of election to decide whether or not electors were educa tionally qualified to vote and asserted that should 1t pass, the judges of cleo tiou would permit persons to cast their votes if their complexions suit ed the judges and not otherwise. Tt would make czars out of the judges, he declared.
 ss, Forces Final Action
 At the conclusion of MT. Dunn's speech, Aver moved to recommit the Dill, which was defeated Chamber lin moved for a recess during the noon hour, that motion also being lost.
 Senator Snodgrass closed the argu unent for the opposition in brial talk. He said he had been unable to find any confirmation of the charges of mass voting. A study o tho last election returns, he said showed but few Indians had voted ir the election hast fall. He character ized the mass voting of illiterate In dians as a "buga boo" The literacy acts of some Southern States, he said are required to control the heavy ignorant negro vote there but there ifs no parallel situation in Alaska which demands such law, adding that he could conceive of no danger from the Indian vote.
 He declared his opposition to th' measure is based on it's unfairnes' to tho Indians and that he came t' that conclusion without talking t anybody" adding he had heard noth ing since to induce him to chang his mind This bill is uncalled 10 at this time, and is unjust in prin ciple," he said. adding in conclusion that if the measure called for a li' eracy test of those young person who are coming to voting age ever, year he probably could support it.. Brown Gives Reasons
 Senator Brown, who described hin self as an Alaskan laborer,' sai he was opposing the bill because was class legislation. violated tn 18th Amendment to the Constitution and was beyond the scope of tn Territorial Legislature to enact. H called 1t trick legislation whic sought to evade the limitations place on such subjects by the Constitution He declared that the Legislature ha no power to change the qualification of electors. quoting an opinion O former Attorney General Grigsby tt stfppoort his argument. It wuld b, more befitting, he said, for the Legis 1ature to provide ways and means Tor educating the Indians instead o attempting to deprive them of thei vote on account of that ignorance.
 Says Not Consistent
 Senator Chamberlin charged Brow with inconsistency. The latter, h said. was basing his opposition large ly on legal grounds yet he had yes terday voted against an amendmen which, if adopted. would have wipe' out all chance for quibbling ove questions of legislative power ant constitutionality
 The differences between the tw' sides, declared Mir. Dimond. in short closing talk. are deeper thai smere differences of opinion on lega questions This. he said. was showi concluavely by the rejection of thu Chamberlin amendment which wa designed to wipe out those questions He denied that in the Foster pll there was any semblance or sub stance of trick legislation, al charged by Brown. He declared tha the argument of the opposition tha all citizens have the right of fran chise is fallacious. This is not true nor has it ever been true anywhere, he declared. He cited the fact tha persons under age of 2l have not thu right of franchise yet at the sam' Atu1e are citizens