Seward daily gateway., 1927-04-18
COMPTROLLER BILL KILLED IN SENATE
 REVIVED IN HOUSE
WORTH AND SUNDQUIST RECOM- MEND AMENDED MEASURE
 BE ADOPTED

ing to reports from Juneau, the House elections committee reported the Comptroller bill with a substitute measure, with recommendation by two of the committee, Chairman Worth and Sundquist, that the sub stitute be adopted for the original bill
 Fisher, the other member of the committee, protested against the pre- cipitate action and declared the pro- visions of the substitute measure were unknown to him except in gen. eral way, and moved to have it re- committed for study and report.
 Murray, in support of Fisher, declar ed there was a question whether un- der House procedure, such measure could legally be considered, as it was substantially the same bill the Senate had defeated.
 lost to 9, with Fisher, Gaffney, Lo- men, Murray, Rydeen, Scott and Shel- don voting for it. Ross then moved that the substitute be adopted, which carried g to 2, without change in the alignment of the members.
 The sponsors of the controller bill claim the new measure differs mate rially from the original bill in that the attorney general has been cast into the discard so far as the board of control is concerned and the governor put in his place.
 When the measure came up for sec ond reading Friday the House steam roller began to function, crushing out all opposition, and held that it was proper legislation, despite the tech nical objection raised by Murray.
 Murrys point of order stated that substantially the identical measure had been considered fully by the Sen ate during the present session and that it had been rejected by that body. He also showed that the Senate had rejected an amendment by Dunn which sought to accomplish the very thing which had been done in the House bill
 Murray cited a precedent estab- lished at the first session of the Alas ka Legisla ature in 1913 and quoted the entire decision rendered by L. V. Ray, president of the Senate, in which he declined to receive a second bill deal ing with substantially the same matter as the one acted up earlier in the ses- sion.
 Taken by surprise, the proponents of the measure steam-rolled through motion to take a recess for an hour and half, during which time caucuses were held. On reconvening, Speaker Smith promptly overruled the point of order Murray appealed from the ruling of the chair and on record vote Smith was sustained by vote of 9 to ', with the lineup the same as on previous occasions, Paul, Benjamin, Worth, Ferguson, Sundquist, Ross, Johnston, Grier and Smith voting in the affirmative.
 When Lomen moved to continue the bill second reading another day to give the members an opportunity to study the measure, and prepare amendments desired, the steam roller again smashed all opposition, defeat ing the motion to 2.
 Sheldon then attempted to gain con- sideration for substitute prepared by himself which would provide for an all-Alaskan commission composed of one member from each division with the Governor (or chairman. The ! juggernaut again ran true and this bill was tabled on motion of Paul. Sheldon gave notice that he had 50 amendments to offer, which is believed to mean that he will offer section by section amendments embracing his entire substitute measure which was tabled the day before.
 ! Unless Governor Parks exercises his
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