The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-10
Appropriation Bill Agreed on at 9 O'Clock This
 Morning
ECONOMIES MADE IN
 AIL-MIGHT SESSION
Fingerprint Appropriation Cut Out of Final Bill
 as Adopted


 ing for expenditure during the coming biennium of $3,507, ,390 was finally passed by both houses Of the Iepislature at g o'clock this morn ing after an all night session.
 With adoption of a free confer ence committee report on the meas ure by vote of seven to one Ill the Senate and by rising vote Ill the House, and with the signing ot the bill by Governor John w. Troy several hours later, after it had been engrossed. the session of the l4th Territorial Legislature came to an end.
 The appropriation, with addition of the $800,0Oo road appropriation which has always heretofore been part of the general appropriation bill the total voted was $4,307 ,39o, This is the largest appropriation ever approved for the Territory.
 Bill Praised
 Iegislators and Territorial of ticials, however, were unanimous in their approval today of the impor- tant bill the general opinion being that the money was well spent and well within the estimated revenues for the biennium.
 The bill was passed originally by the House last Saturday and by the Senate at 10 o'clock last night.
 It went back to the House, after being mimeographed, and the House agreed to all Senate amend ments except 12, disagreements over which were thrashed out by free conference committee of each house in the early morning hours.
 While the Legislators took cat maps in their chairs or walked the corridors of the second floor of the Federal Building, the commit- tees, consisting of Senators Victor c. Rivers, LeRoy Sullivan and Joe Holman, and Representatives Ed Coffey, Wallace Porter and Leo Rogge, strengthened out all diff culties.
 The free conference committees labord from o'clock this morning to 9 o'clock before making their reports, which were accepted with out discussion by each house.
 Final major operations performed L., 4l.a ,,.,,,;++aae oorlxr tfday uara striking of the $10,000 for carrying the criminal Identification bill into effect; striking of $30,000 for voca- tional education and S8,000 for cor respondence courses; raising the ap- propriation for the employment service from the $1O,000 to which it had been cut by the Senate to $20,000; bobbing of $11,300 for the Department of Public Welfare ap- propriation, and striking of the S4.000 item which the Senate had tackled on to the measure for the Territorial Chamber of Commerce.
 An item for salaries of Associate Mining Engineers under the Com missioner of Mines was restored to S2l 500 from the $12,000 to which the Senate had slashed it.
 Reinserted at insistenoe of the House conference committee was an appropriation of $8,000 for indus trial and agricultural fairs, which had been stricken by the Senate.
 As finally enacted, the appropria- tions for the biennium beginning April l, 1889, are as follows:
 Office of the Governor
 Additional salary of Secretary to Governor. $720 per annum, $l,440; salary of Assistant to the Secretary to Governor, 9 $2,700 per annum, $5,40O; salary of two stenogra- phers, $2.100 per annum, S8,40o; additional special service. Sl.Soo; contingent office expense, including dissemination of information about Alaska and publication and circu- lation of pamphlets and booklets, under direction of the Governor. $2,5O0; repairing and furnishing Governors house and upkeep of grounds. $2,000; entertainment at Governors house, $2,o00; total, $23, 3,540.