The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-10

to Alaska. Apparently MacDon-
 aid picked the idea "Out of the
 blue," says Ncrdale, who has
 been a clcse personal friend of
 the highway booster for 20 years. NcrdaIe was editor of the Fair
 banks News Miner at the time
 and Macdonald, who was an old
 police reporter, made the office
 his hangOut.
 The Senate has amended, with the authors approval, Senator Walkers bill to allow certain High Schools to teach Junior College grades. The amendment restricts such .instruc- ton to vocational education.
 During discussion of Mrs. Jennes bill for home for women, Rep. Jim Davis asked Rep. Frank Gordon whether he'd ever tried to keep Is women on a mere $30,000. Gordon replied: 'Yes, I've kept thousands. That's my business He has a wo- mems apparel shop.
 The Senate Labor Committee has recommended against passage of Rep. Harvey Smiths bill to put vir- tually everybody under the unem- ployment compensation law. The bill would reduce from 20 to five the number of weeks a year a person would have to work to be included, and would require payments by em- plcyers of one or more persons, in- stead of eight or more as at present.
 Another of those paradoxes
 of Alaska legislation; The in
 come tax bill was killed by
 Senators from the Divisions
 which would have paid the least
 under it's provisions, while it was
 supported by Senators from the
 sections of Alaska which would shave paid the biggest part Of
 the bill. Everybody north and
 west of Anchorage voted against
 the bill and everybody south and
 east of Seward against it. After the heat.engendered by the final fight on the income tax bill, for the rest of the afternoon Senator Walker objected to all of Senator Cochrans requests for unanimous consent, requiring the Nome Senator to put motions and be supported by roll calls.
 Probably I shouldn't say this, but I'm going to say it anyway Rep Allen Shattuck prefaced state ment in the House Saturday after noon that he was sure all the lay members of the House had a perfect understanding. of the provisions of he Department of Health bill and the reason Rep. Amer Peterson couldn't understand it was because he is a lawyer.
 Peterson had called it "cumber- some, mysterious bill" and had de- fled "any Philadelphia lawyer to determine under this bill whether he's in jail or out of jail"
 The Department cf Health bill
 hearing in the House drew a
 much larger gallery than tne in-
 finitely more dramatic Senate
 fight on the income tax bill,
 which tcok place at the same
 time. Beth were good shows,
 however.
 Senator Don Carlos BrowneH
 had prepared, but wasn't able to
 propose, amendments to the in
 comc tax bill. It would have made
 it's provisions milder. For in
 stance, he would have based
 the tax on "clear net income
 after federal taxes had been
 paid, would have reduced the tax
 on personal net income so that
 it did net go over four per cent
 at the maximum, would have
 given credit of S30 instead of
 $2O for single persons and $50
 instead of $40 for married and
 would have granted extra cred
 it's for those who built homes
 or factories or performed farm
 improvement labor, etc. Sometime between 1l.30 and 1:45 o'clock Saturday, Senator c. H. (AlabamD LaBoyteax changed his mind about the income tax bill, and thereby made history. At the morn ing session, when Senator Coffey moved to advance the bill out of it's regular order on the calendar for Immediate consideration, Alabam voted mo" and the motion was lost. At the beginning of the afternoon session he voted "yes' on a similar motion and the bill went on to de- feat.
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