The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-20
SOVIET ARMY|L LEGISLATURE TIDE ROLLING BEGINS WORK ACROSS FRONT NEXT MONDAY
This Session to Be Largest and Most CoIorfuI
 of All

Alaska's new jumbo-size legisla- ture will go into session Monday morning in the Federal Building legislative chambers with Secretary of Alaska Lew M. Williams firing the opening gun by calling the of ficial roll.
 The roll today was II members short of being filled, with Senators Whaley, Ling, Brownell, Scott and Collins yet to show, and Represen- tatives Cross, Taylor, Landers, Dia- mond, Pollard and Huntley yet to arrive.
 This, the seventeenth biennial session of the Alaska Territorial Legislature, will be the first under the new combination of Is Sen ators and 24 Representatives, considerable increase over the old eight Senators and 16 Represena- tives arrangement.
 Still another new feature of this legislature is the fac that where the Federal Government formerly paid the bill for 13 necessary legis- lative employees, the government will now pay only salaries and mileage of legislators. The Terri tory will have to foot is own bills for clerical and printing ex- penses.
 The Senate will be a veteran group, with but two neophytes in legislative work, Grenold Collins of Anchorage and John Butrovich of Fairbanks, while the House, in comparison, will be as green as any since 1913.
 Of 24 members, the only House veterans are Landers, Taylor, Porter, Stanley McCutcheon, Peter son and Linck
 It is possible also that no other Alaska Legislature has had the color of this assembly.
 There are two natives in the Legislature this year, Representa- tives Frank Peratrovich of Kla- wock, and Andrew Hope of Sitka, representing the first sizeable voting bloc evidenced by the Alaska Indian and perhaps auguring a new era in Territorial politics, and bringing to an end the canoe vote" hopes of veteran white men politicians.
 There are two women in this session, one a twice-comer, one a new conner. The veteran carries a name that makes more significant the rise of the new generation vote in the North, a given name with an Alaska birthright-Alaska Linck.
 The new-coming feminine vote, also in the House, is that of a socially prominent woman who runs l a chain of trading posts in the Arctic and when she first went to the outposts of the North, earned with her beauty the title Queen of the Kobuk,' Bess Cross of Deering.
 There are two pioneer father son combinations, Allen Shattuck in the Senate and his son, Curtis, i in the House From Anchorage comes for the second time a ffather-son combination, veteran H. H. McCutcheon and son, Stanley, Senate and House, respectively. Legislators who have not yet arrived in town are expected over the weekend.
 At 10 o'clock Monday morning, Secretary of Alaska Lew M. Wll- Hams will call the roll of the House and District Judge George F. Alexander will administer the paths of office. Williams will then turn the meeting over to speaker pro-tem and repeat the process in the Senate.
 On election of permanent speaker of the House and President of the Senate, the way will be paved for naming committees on help and a committee on committees.
 Current speaker hopes are di- vided between veterans Jess Lander of Fairbanks and Warren Taylor of Kodiak. President of the Senate it is rumored more strongly, will be Ed Coffey of Anchorage. A First Division caucus, scheduled in Secretary Lew Williams office at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon and other divisional caucasus await ing arrival of absent legislators will likely thrash these problems out before Monday morning. Jobs to be filled on the Legis- latiye clerical lists include a Chief Clerk for the House, one for the Senate; assistant chief clerks, Ser geant-at- Arms, Messengers, En-