The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-11
SUNDAY CLOSING pR0p05AL LOSES
 TEST IN SENATE
Three Measures Killed as Four Passed Today in
 Upper House

In deadly mood today, the Senate killed the only three measures slat- ed to come before them for final passage. but relented later and sus- pended the rules to pass four other pieces of legislation after advancing theme from second reading.
 Killed by a vote of seven to one was Senator Joe Hofmans Senate joint memorial No 8 which urged authorization of postmasters to take acknowledgements on bills of sale and other technical matters. A un- animous vote was cost to defeat House bill No. 32, by Rep. Carl Drager, which would have allowed non- residents of the Territory to act as executors and administrators.
 Sea Otter Finis
 By vote of five to three the Sen ate finally administered a coup de grace to the sea otter memorial which they had previously tabled taken from the table and placed on final passage today. By Rep. James Davis, the memorial (H.JM.- 4 would have urged the transfer of jurisdiction over Aleutian sea ot- ter from the Bureau of Fisheries to the Department of Agriculture.
 Senate bills Nos. 31, refunding $750 in license money to the town of Port Alexander, and 38, limiting duration of chattel mortgage liens, were ad- vanced from second reading by sus- pension of the rules and passed.
 Also passed was Rep. W. J Dowd's House joint memorial No 21 asking the Department of Agriculture to request funds for increasing the number of wildlife agents in Alaska and furnishing two airplanes for use of the Game Commission.
 B Amendments Galore
 After practically rewriting the bill by striking and substituting score of words, the Senate passed unani- Inously House bill No. 29 by Rep. Davis, setting up Pioneers Home Trust fund. Senator Roden proposed the amendments, which do not change the effect of the act but put it in legal form.
 The same process of amending was begun on Rep Edward CoffeyS House joint memorial No. 18, sup porting Delegate Anthony J Di- Ihond's bill excluding foreigners from the Bristol Bay fishing banks, with Senate President Norman R. Walker starting the ball rolling by moving to substitute the term" by foreign nationals" for 'by the Jap anese" in describing alleged alien incursions there. This amendment was adopted. but when Senator Rod en began to propose further techni- cal amendments in wholesale lots the bill was ordered re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
 One new measure, Senate bill No 43, by Senator LeRoy Sullivan, re- pealing Territorial law providing for appropriation of funds for vo- caticnal education, was introduced f9day..
 Two liquor bills found slow going in tie Senate this morning Senate bili No. 36 by Senator Walker. pro- viding that liquor stores can not be reopened on premises within 200 feet of a church or school if stores already in such locations lose their licenses due to violation of reeula- tions, wes re-referred to the Com mittee on Judiciary after it was urg- ed that the measure was faultily drawn.
 Senator O. D. Cochran's bill to close liquor stores and beer parlors on election days until after the polls are closed narrowly missed being saddled with rider that would pro- vide for closing from midnight to $ am. every day and all day Sun day. The amendment proposed by Senator James Patterson, was de- afeated four to-four, with the Third Division Senator being supported by Senators Joe Holman, Roden and Sullivan. In its original form Sen- ator Cochran's bill then advanced through second reading.
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