The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-01
BILL TAXING BANKS GETS
 SENATE o. K.
SoIons Spend Midnight in Ldb0r-14 Measures
 Go 10 House

Senate last night and worked until 1920 o'clock this morning tmidnight Senate Standard Time) to clean ur the calendar and get all Senate bills which Senators hope will pass this session over to the House.
 Score for the day: II bills. two memorials and one resolution pass ed; l6 bills and one memorial de- feated, either by outright vote, in- definite postponement or refusal tc suspend the rules to advance mea- sure from second reading to fina passage.
 Yesterday was the last day either house will receive bills from the other, without the consent of two- thirds of the members to which the House receiving the bill is entitled so Senate bills which did not go over to the House last night are dead un- less so voted by the House.
 Bank Tax Passes
 Of the bills which did go over, as result of yesterdays labors, only one. Senate bill No. 55, by Senator Victor c. Rivers of Fairbanks, is of much consequence. The others are minor appropriation bills and mea- sures dealing with legal technicalit- ies.
 The Rivers bill, amended several times in the course of it's journey through the Senate, provides as fin- ally enacted that every bank, nation- al banking ton. building and loan association and mutual savings bank must pay a license tax of one and one-half percent of the true cash value of capital stock at the end of each year.
 Another section of the bill fixes a license tax for the construction business, setting fee of $20 per year for resident concerns and $500 for outsiders who do business in the Territory.
 The Rivers bill was passed seven to one with only Senator o. D. Coch- ran voting nay.
 No permi. system
 Finally dying after d two-day fight for life was Senator Cochlan's Sem ate bill No 88 which would have es- abolished 3 permit system of liquor sale The bill advanced through se- cond reading yesterday but could win only five of the Senate's eight votes on motion to suspend the rules to advance it to final passage. A vote of two-thirds Is necessary to suspend the rules Those voting against suspending the rules, and thus to kill the bill. were Senators 0. H. LaBoyteanx. James Patterson and Norman R. Walker.
 Senator Cochran's refusal, as Chairman of the Education Commit tee, to report out several other liq- uor bills was responsible in large measure for defeat of his own mea- sure. Senators retaliated by blocking the Cochran bill. Only two bills deal- ing with liquor legislation got through the Senate all session. One was Senator Walkers bill allowing sale of hard liquor by the drink. The other was Senator LaBoyteaux's bill prohibiting sale of liquor to natives. which passed yesterday morning.
 Flood Control
 From the list of bills passed yes- terday, one other stands out as of considerable importance. It is Sen- ate bill No. 56, by Rivers, declaring a policy of cooperation with the Fed eral Government in flood control and river and harbor projects. A sharply challenged section of the bill assum- es for the Territory liability for all damages arising out of the construc- tion of such projects.
 Two measures were withdrawn yes- terday by Senator Henry Roden. They were Senate bill No. 80. dealing with the license fees of insurance agents, and Senate joint memorial No. 12, asking an increase in pay for employees of hte custodian ser vice in Federal buildings.
 A memorial by Rivers asking an in crease in pay for postoffice employees was passed after the Fairbanks Sen- ator pleaded with members of the Judiciary Committee to reconsider their do not pass' recommendation which Rivers said was decided upon lat about Il o'clock one Sunday morning, when the Senators were probably feeling bit dyspeptic."
 Loves Labor Lost
 Last hour of the weary Senate's time last night was spent in reading and amending lengthy bill by Sen- ator LeRoy Sullivan to revamp the Territory's statutes dealing with de-
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