The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-14
(.0F(. KILLS
 RESOLUTION.
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Two-Hour Session Ends in Secret Ballot Defeating
 Guard Resolution

In the second two-hour session in two days, the Juneau Chamber of Commerce at a special meeting to- day killed a resolution endorsing legislation for armories in the Ter ritory by vote of 40 to Al. -s -'e One week ago the Chamber went on record as unanimously favoring an appropriation for Territorial ar mories, but the endorsement was not to be considered as endorsing any bill now before the Legislature, meaning House Bill 66.
 Following is the resolution killed by the Chamber today:
 "RESOLVED-that this Chamber of Commerce go on record as en- dorsing legislation at this session of the Legislature to build and equip armories for the several units of our Territorial National Guard which will meet the minimum requirements of the War Department and endorse such revenue measure as may be necessary for that purpose"
 Former Resolution
 < The resolution passed at the last weeks regular meeting of the Cham bers reads as follows:;" .. Chamber go on record as favoring an appro- priation by the Territorial Legisla- ture for an amount of money to be used for providing the minimum essential housing facilities required by the Army regulations for Ma tional Guards of Alaska, but the en- dorsement of the Chamber is not to be considered as endorsing any bill now before the Legislature" ! Although the Chamber stands as endorsing the construction of ar mories, it also stands as not endors- ing House Bill 66, and time has now passed for the introduction of new bills in the Legislature. President Curtis Shattuck explained that the difference in the two stands of the Chamber rests in the difference in the two resolutions and said that it was not the position of the Cham Der to suggest to the Legislature the amount of money to be expended on any project.
 Last Clause
 Said he: "The addition of the last clause to the new resolution was probably the cause of it's defeat. The Chamber still stands as en- dorsing minimum housing facilities for the National Guard of the Ter ritory."
 Ninety-five members attended the largest meeting in months as the special meeting was called, and many members who were not in regular attendance sat in the meet ing today and voted. The Execu- tive Board of the Chamber present. ed today's defeated resolution with out recommendation because of the similarity to the resolution of a week ago.
 Speech Limit
 Killing a motion to limit speech es to five minutes for a lack of second, the session, tensely await ed, started with Dr. w. w. Coun- cil's statement that Eff the Terri tory refuses to appropriate money | for armories, the far-reaching af- feet on Congress will be devastat- ing, especially in view of the mil lions of dollars being spent by the Federal Government on Alaska"
 H. L. Faulkner spoke for over a half-hour, saying that he was pa triotic, but could see no need of the National Guard He said that additional taxes, as proposed in a recently defeated taxation bill, would burden the Alaska Juneau mine to the amount of $56,000 and would possibly result in the closing of the mine. He added that he would rather send $500,O00 to England. which he called our first line of defense, than spend it on the Alaska National Guard. Meeting Is Tense Then for another half hour the session continued with members popping up to speak their beliefs on the subject, and in which R. E Robertson said that he was ir favor of the National Guard and had. in fact, helped to bring a Guard unit here, but could see nc