The Kusko times., 1933-07-08

within the Territory have so far paid no ottention whatever to this so- called repeal and are still arresting, convicting. and sentencing persons charged with the. violation of the law. The passage of the celebrated beer bill, which occupied weeks of the leg islators' time, to the. exclusion of, and in some cases to the neglect of other important, legislation, followed natur- ally after the enactment of Congress sional legislation along this line, which included Alaska in it's provi sions. It was. a really adequate law, eonceiyabsy, though what it failed to meet one condition at least, was indi- cated by the frantic haste with which the legislators thems elves novel to amend it a,most befafe the printers ink with which it, had besn printsd had bece;me dry. It is worthy of men tion in this connection. too, that. the very amendment they sought sos ,un- successfully during the last day of the session was one whiehs had again and again been, defeated on the floor of the House during the original eon- sideration of the bill.
 It passed the Shattuck .educationai bill which created an appeintive board of education with power. to appoint the commissioner of education and to regulate teachers, salaries, To, sup plement this bill the Legislature pass ed a later bill defining the powers of the boand of edncation, which were made practicsllys dictatorial,- particu- lariy as they appy tot schools outside incorporated cities.
 It passed bill creating a Pioneers Home commission to have charge of the building of a, new Pioneers Home, and set aside. for that purpose the money already appropriated to. the building fund by previous sessions of the Legislature. It repealed. the teachers pension law. It passed bill making contributing to the, delin- quency of a minor felony instead of, misdemeanor; it passed a. law raising the, allotment given as moth CTS pensiens, it passed House Bill bin 113. <
 
 It passed an appropriation bill call ing approximately for s400,OO0 more than the highest estimated income for the biennium, and that in the face of the fact that there is little likelihood of anything, like the highest estimated income being actually available dur ing the next two years. It passed a resolution asking Congress not to cut salaries in Alaska until it had inves- tigated living conditions, and then on its own accord made summary slash of 10 per cent on salaries of all Ter ritorial employees, doing even a., bit worse by the Territorial stenograph- CTS and cutting them Is per cent.
 Such in brief is 8 true synopsis of the legislation that passed both houses of.tl:e Legislature at the 11th session, skorn, it is true,. of large number of uninlrortans and trivial measures Heweves. it is when we come to 3 considerations of the bills that did NOT pass--a feature of. the Legislatures work that so far has rot been summa; ;iz d at all by any news paper-that we find the real story of the Legislature, and those who are skilled as reading between the lines of the Hodse Journals, may write their own heads. for. this.
 No more significant statement was made during the entire legislative ses- sion taaRsthat made by Mir. Nerland, veteran member from the Fourth di- vision, whep he rose in the House to decry thesfailure osfthe bill raising
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