The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-01-23

and shop forces, and cocks and
walters
Against Tolls
The bill to prSnibit the charge OF
tolls for the use of any public road
or trail in Alaska was also intro
duced when Congress convened.
A bill to extend the provisions of
the Federal Highway Act to the
Territory was introduced by the
Delegate in order that Alaska may
share in the appropriations avail
able to the States for apportionment
under the Federal Highway Act.
The measure introduced during
the Seventy Fourth Congress au-
thorizing the Alaska Legislature to
amend or repeal certain laws I'M
posing taxes on business and trade
in the Territory was reintroduced
in the Seventy-Fifth Congress.
Authority for the construction
and operation of a Federal hospital
for the care and treatment of the
insane of Alaska and other classes
) of persons who are insane was in
troduced.
Proposed legislation authorizing
the Secretary of War to credit mon
eys received for services rendered
by the Alaska Communications Sys-
tenn to the appropriation provided
for operation of the system. Pro-
vision is also made authorizing a
charge for services rendered by the
system to other Federal depart
ments or offices in the bill.
Fer Raiiroaders
The bill was reintroduced that
would provide for medical examina-
tion of injured employees of the
Alaska Railroad by physicians not
in the employ of the Alaska Rail
road and which also provides for
right Of appeal to the Employees
Compensation Commission over the
decision of the General Manager
of Me Alaska Railroad on injury
compensation claims.
To encourage and protect the es-
Establishment of the wood pulp indus
try in Alaska, Delegate Dimond in
troduced and is urging enactment
of 4 bill providing for a tax on i'm
ported wood pulp and pulpwood and
products manufactured therefrom
The proposed tax is So per cord on
pulpwood, $3.50 per ton on unbleach-
ed chemical wood pulp, $40 per ton
on bleached chemical wood pulp,
and $3.50 per ton on mechanically
ground wood pulp Manufactured
products would be taxed as based
on the tonnage Of ground wood pulp
/ or chemical wood pulp used in their
manufacture.
Education
A bill amending the Act to re-
serve lands to the Territory OF Al
aska for educational uses, and for
other purposes" approved March 4,
1919, has been introduced by the
Delegate to reserve sections num-
bered 80 in each townsite in the
Territory for the support of the
University of Alaska. The original
Act provides that sections numbered
16 and SO in every township be re-
served for the support of the COM
mon schools in Alaska, and that
sections numbered 33 in the Tan
ana Valley be reserved for the sup
port of the Agriculture College and
School of Mines, now the University
of Alaska. Enactment of this meas
ure will mean the reservation OF
sections numbered 80 throughout
Alaska for the support of the Uni
versity.
5 Another bill introduced for furth-
, erance of education in Alaska au-
J thorizes the sale of timber and min
eral products from the sections in
each township reserved for the sup
port of the common schools.
The bill introduced to amend the
Act to authorize municipal corpora
! lions in Alaska to incur bonded in
debtedness is to clarity that part Of
the Arc prescribing the require
ments of the balloting to determine
whether bonded Indebtedness shall
! be incurred or not.
5 Pension for Indians
Proposed legislation to provide
that persons of one-fourth or more
Indian blood who are IS years OF
age and in need shall receive Fed
! eral pension in an amount not to
exceed $50 per month has been in
7 troduced by the Delegate. 1t seems
: clear that if the Territory enacts
, the necessary cooperative legisla-
: ton required for extension of the
Social Security Act to Alaska, the
! Indians and Eskimos will be elegi-
: BILE for pension under that Act
: However, enactment of this bill will
} remove considerable financial bur-
den from the Territory, as well as
from those States in which Indians
l reside, as it is not limited to Alaska
/ in its application, through nonre-
quirement of the State or Territory
r matching the money allotted for
S pensions to Indians.
Private Bills
The following private bills were
3 introduced in the House by the