The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-05-04
HOUSE REDUCES
TAxSCHEDULES;
CHANGE SLIGHT
No Raise in Rates in Revenue
Bill Passed -Appropria-
tions Are Passed.

The House of Representatives last
night passed the two most important
measures of the session-the revenue
bill and the general appropriations
bill. In the former there was not
a single raise in taxes and there were
two reductions.
The revenue measure passed by a
vote of nine to seven the conser-
vative forces being recruited by the
addition to Speaker Smith and M
Grier who voted solidly against any
increase in taxation at this time.
After the bill was passed, Mr.. Paul
who voted for the emergency clause
but against the bill. gave notice ot
reconsideration today of the vote by
which the emergency clause was
adopted.
Passes Unanimously
The general appropriations meas
nre, carrying approximately $2.000,00o,
passed by unanimous vote. The
largest single appropriation is for the
support of schools aggregating $3.50
600. Roads and trails came next
with $460000. Chairman Ross at
tempted to amend the bill to reduce
the latter item to 100000 but failed
10 get second to his amendment.
Mr. Sheldon Jared in like fashion
when he undertook to reduce the
salary of the Attorney General to
$4,000 per year.
The school items included: $515,00J
for schools in incorporated towns ami
incorporated school districts; $3.50,
900 for schools outside of incorporat-
ed towns and Incorporated school
districts; citizenship night schools
$4,000; transportation of pupils
$4,000; provision of certain addi-
tional school facilities, $4,000; pay
ment of tuition TO incorporated towns
for pupils residing outside of the
limits of such towns, $4,000 In adj
dition to these items, there was ap-
propriated for administrative expenses
OF the Department of Education the
sum of $26500.
Make Several Amendments
Under the leadership of Reprosen-
tatives Lomen and Grier several
amendments were adopted. The Com
mittee had reported its bill without
allowing any additional salaries for
the Secretary to the Governor and
Secretary Karl Theile. For the fo,-
IlltT tHt I1OUSt aiiontd PisffV 90 ~
previous years, and $4,000 was APP
propriated for the latter as for seg-
eral years past.
The Governor was allowed $500"
entertainment fund, an increase o.
81 900 over the Committee recon-
mendation, and $3.50 was appropriai-
ed for repairs to the Executive Man
sion which had not been included n
the original bill.
The sum of $1,000 was added to
the Committees allowance to the
office of Commissioner OF Education
to be expended in printing a manual
and course of study for High
Schools.
An extra $1,000 was given the
Pioneers Home to purchase land
for garden plot.
The Commissioners of Education
was granted $2400 for stenographic
help in addition to the normal al
lowance of $500 for contingent ex'
penses
The Board of Dental Examiners
item was raised from $500 to $1,000.
The appropriation for shelter cabins
was raised from the committee fig
ure of 100000 to $4,000
The Clerk of the House and Secre-
tary of the Senate were given $1,5OO
each for payment of extra clerical
help and for overtime work for reg
ular employees. Each of these itemr
was raised $500 over the Committee
figure of $1,000.
Spend Day on Taxation
The House spent the entire day
debating the revenue measure. In
troduced by title only ten days ago,
an effort was made to have each Oh
the schedules inserted by amendment
but this failed after several hours
fight which was lead by Represen-
tative Lomen.
A majority of the House voted
to adopt the Committees schedules
as basis upon which to work which
meant that it took nine votes to
change any of the rates proposed By
the Committee.
The addition of Representatives
Grier and Smith to the conservative
forces gave them the necessary
strength te strike out every raise
proposed lis the Committee. The first
was rais1 in the surtax on trap
caught fish from So per thousand 10
S5. This was voted out and the Oil
SO rate rainstated. The second was
a raise on herring oil from 40 cents
to So per barrel and on fish meal
from 40 cents per ton to $2. BY
nine to seven vote this also was
stricken and the old schedule re-
stored.
The third proposed raise was on
mining, which the committee jumped
to three per cent on the incomes in
excess of 100000 The old rates
were voted back in the bill, one per
cent between $4,000 and s, 10000,