The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-04-26
DIMOND REVIEWS EFFORT TO GET
 OUT MEASURES
Makes Vain Fight to Force Ten House Bills Out of
 Senate Committees

AAA StAN NNAAehO~ aNpb1A NltNA AACCAA Senator Dimond renewed his ef- forts to force out from Committee number of the House bills that have been held there for good many days. In rapid succession he made ten motions covering as many different measures and in each instance the motion was lost. On each one the Senator asked for and was granted a roll-call.
 The vote in nearly every instance was three for and five against pas sage. On only one measure was he close to success, Senator Benja- min joining the minority in an effort to get out of the Finance Committee House Bill 43.
 Is College Measure
 This is a measure that is of deep interest to the Alaska College. It accepts for the Territory the bene- fits, which include $10o00 year without financial obligation on the Territory's part, of the Hatch and Smith-Lever Acts recently extend ed to Alaska by Congress. Nor is this the only measure affecting the College that is being held up and which Senator Dimond sought to have brought out. There are two others, House Bill 35, carrying an appropriation for operation ami maintenance of $135,035 and House Bill 51, carrying an appropriation of $10,000 to enable the College to make an investigation of parasitic insects said to be endangering the reindeer herds of northern Alaska Other measures which Senator Dimond asked for were: House Bill 10, carrying an appropriatioa of $17,000 for a school house at Kodiak; House Bill IT appropriat- | ing $l0,000 for improvement of the Yukon -Kuskokwim portage; House Bill 31 appropriating $17,200 for the Seward Peninsula Ship subsidy; House Bill 47 for the relief of St. Joseph's hospital, Fairbanks for the care of an indigent patient; House Bill 50 carrying $500 to advertise the proposed International. High way and House Bills 79 and 80 for refunds to various companies and individuals for fish trap licenses totalling $5,150.
 Passed Two Bills
 The Dimond-D Dunn measure re- vising and codifying all the laws relating to the public school sys- tenn of Alaska, which has been un- der consideration for several days, was passed yesterday afternoon by a vote of seven to nothing, Sund- quist being absent at the time.
 The Senate also passed House Bill 45 extending to the Territory Federal Acts and regulations there under relating to the licensing and operation of aircraft and the li- censing of pilots. Senator Hess's bill establishing a three cent per gallon tax on gasoline and fuel oil used by vehicles operating over public highways, was considered at some length and continued in sec ond reading The measure provides that the revenue derived from such source would go into the fund for construction and naaintenance of highways
 Dimond Renews Fight
 In the Senate this morning Sena- tor Dimond renewed an apparently hopeless fight to have certa n House bills brought out of Commit tee and back to the floor. He made two motions to that effect.
 Three measures. reported by the Committee on Education with the mere recommendation that they be referred to the Finance Committee were sought to be kept before the Senate by the Third Divisio n Senator These were Bills 34, 35 and ST. The first carries an ap- propriation of $4,000 for improve ments to the Hoonah school build ing, the second is the Alaska Col llege Appropriation of $135035. and the third grants $9o0 for the pur- chase of a teachers residence fol the Kanakanak school.
 MT. Dimond moved they be mol referred to the Finance Committee A point of order was sustained bJ President Steel. Senator Dunn ther moved that the rules be suspended on the reference of the measures This motion was lost three to five Dimond, Dunn and Hess voting fol l it.
 Threatens Adjournment
 Senator Dimond then moved tha House Bill 51. the Seward Penin. sula Ship Subsidy bill, that hal been in the Finance Committe' since April 4, be ordered back t' the floor. On roll call, it was los
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