The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1927-04-02
AMERICAN KIDNAPPED, THEN SLAIN
Second Reading Controller
Bill Completed by Senate;
Many Amendments Made

The senate yesterday AFTERNOON llli-
ished the second reading of Senate
Bill No |. the famous Controller
Bill. Owing to the fact that MANY
portions of the measure will have
10 he rewritten. two or three new
sections added. parts of others
stricken. and amendments OF few
words or phrases put i'll at various
places. il will probably be two or
three days before ii can be brought
back into the Senate for final action.
One significant amendment was
put into the bill yesterday ovar the
votes of at least some of its propo-
nents Another amendment which
would have virtually changed the
entire purport of the measure WAS
lost by very narrow margin.
Wants Governor on Board
After Chairman Steel Of the ri
| nance Committee. who is author of
the Senate measure. had practically
! completed amending the measure in
accord with his program Senator
Dunn took the floor and offered
and amendment to the first section
in Article ". which would have
taken the Attorney General off III"
Board of Control and put on il tha
Governor of the Territory The
amendment was seconded by Sen
ator Jensen.
Proponents of the measure We're
almost a unit in opposing the sug-
gested alteration. Senator Frame
admitted he had originally been of
the belief that the Attorney General
could not properly serve on the
Board but after more careful study
he had changed his opinion and was
convinced it was not only proper but
it was logical and right for him to
so act.
Pratt Sides with Frame
Senator Pratt agreed with Senator
Frame that the Attorney General
should be member but gave slight
| ly different reasons. 1t is proposed.
he pointed out, to try out an en-
trely new experiment in Government
under thi; scheme. To reject The
Attorney General and replace him
with the Governor, he said would
not be at all in line with the purport
of the measure. If ii is 10 become
Il law. he added. it should be sub
stantiaily in the same form as ii Is
wanted by its supporters so that 3
thorough trial may be made of il
and. in case of failure, responsibility
for it cannot be charged to anyone
else.
Hunt Eulogizes Wickersham
With striking earnestness. Senator
Hunt protested against the Dunn
amendment. His was the longest
spe ach made by any member during
the Senates consideration. He di.
grcssed. apparently. into eulosy
of Judge Wickersham and verba
assault ON those who have opposed
the latter and his political allies.
The people of Alaska have asked
for the Controller Bill and a Board
of Control exactly as provision is
made for it, and an overwhelming
majority of Alaskans are solidly tol
| il, he declared He defended the
public career of Judge Wickersham.
saying he had spent the largest par
of his life unselfishly working for
the Territory and is even now de-
voting himself to its service
! He attacked those who are op-
posed to Wickersham as cannery In
terests or their tools. The newspa-
pers, with other agents of the in
terests are fighting the propositions
put forth by him, doing it for pay
"If they don't serve such interests
where are they going to get their
! support?" he asked. In closing he
declared the day will come when the
Territory will build a monument to
Wickersham and when those who
have opposed and fought his policies
will be dead and their very names
forgotten
Dunn Defends Amendment
The surprise OF the afternoon was
in the vgor with which Senator
Dunn defended his amendment and
assailed the thing sought to be ac
complshed in some of the original
provisions of the measure. what is
the use of you trying to talk about
the practices of Democracy and its
principles when you are doing soma
thing else entirely different" he
asked. Petitions had been hurled at
the Senators in an effort to railroad
the measure through, petitions sent
lby people who had never seen the
hin and knew nothing of what it con-
itained. "They threaten us. that un.
less we vote for the bill we won't
come back. Threats are no good
That is good way to get my sup
port-but in the wrong way. | am
willing to meet them in my own
} district on that issue. Let them
| GOMEZ" he declared.
, Then turning to his proposal. he
pointed out that the Attorney Gen
eral is elected as general counselor
, for the people of Alaska, as an adj
) ciser to the officers OF the Territory.
Now they come along with propo-
sition to make him also judicial
officer and an administrative execu.
tive: to give him three jobs instead
OF one.
The powers proposed for Attorney
General under the measure. he as.
serted. could be exercised properly