The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-06
NEW LIQUOR
 BILL IN THE
 SENATE NOW
Cochran Bill Would Close Election Day Sale
 No Hard Liquor

Another liquor bill was introduced in the Senate today, this one by Senator o. D. Cochran of Nome who voted on the short end of the five to-three count which passed the Walker cocktail measure last week.
 Cochran's measure, Senate bill No. 32, makes it unlawful to sell liquor on any general, special or primary election day until after the polls have closed.
 Another section of the bill is in direct conflict with the Walker mea- sure and its enactment no doubt would throw the matter into the courts. The provision is nor shall such licensee permit the drinking of hard or distilled liquors by any person upon the premises covered by his license"
 The Walker bill, now before the House, expressly permits selling of hard liquor by the drink.
 First Cochran Bill
 The Cochran bill. incidently is the first piece of legislation introduced by the Second Division Senator. All ether Senators have bills pending.
 Senator James Patterson of Vel- deg introduced today Senate joint memorial No 4, which urges Con- gress to enact Delegate Anthony J. Dimond's bill to extend provisions of the Federal highway act to AL aSka.
 Senator Patterson also is author of another measure introduced to- day as a substitute for Senate joint 1 memorial No. 2, after that had been 1 withdrawn. The memorial, asking Federal aid in exterminating wolves, especially in Mount Mckinley Ma tional Park and in the Katmai and Glacier Bay National Monuments where no predatory animal control is now exerted, changes the previous measure by leaving out an appeal to the Yukon and British Columbia Governments for their aid in the war on wolves.
 Wolf Bounty Bill Wolf bounties were to be the sub- ject of discussion late this afternoon of the Senate Committee on Fish cries, Game and Agriculture, when that group took up House bill No 1 which provides a $50 bounty or wolves and S20 on coyotes with the skins to be turned over to the Terri tory.
 Protest against this bill was re- ceived today by the Senate from the Tanana Valley Sportsmen's Associa- tion, which wrote that the bill dis criminates against the Fourth anc Second Divisions, where trapper; now get from s35 to $40 just for the wolf pelts.
 Senators today clearly showed their sympathies for Territorial of. ficials who have been critized fol mourning deficiencies. Four of si, Senators who spoke in connection with Representative Carl Drager'! Houee joint resolution No. ?, "ab clishing" deficiency appropriation and requiring officials to cease ex : penditures after funds are exhaust ed were against the measure. Deficiencies Discussed Senator LeRoy Sullivan said tha unless we find that officials hay misappropriated funds or absconde' with money don't see how we cal do anything about these deficiencie . except to vote for them and like it. He characterized the Drager mea sure as lat most only slap on tn wrist" and with no real effect. | The officials are only doing thei duty in carrying out their prescribe tasks" Senator Joe Holman sait We in the Legislature aren't foi tune tellers and when we have { make appropriations two years i advance We should allow some flez ibility in the expenditure of thos funds"
 | When Senator c. H. LaBoyteau
 asked whether "any of the depart
 ments ever have any money le
 over at the end of the biennium
 Senator Sullivan quoted several sue
 instances but admitted they wei rare.
 Not Worth Sl00" | Senate President Norman I
 Walker said he doubted "whetht ' tho raeo1,,tior uyae u,orth fIa GIT