The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-07
HOUSE MEETS AT NIGHT 10
 CLEAN SLATE
Labor Measure Is Amonq Those Passed as Mid-
 night Oil Burned

Representative in the Territorial Legislature last night hitched up their collective belts and girdles to clean up bogged-down calendar in the first night meeting of the session.
 Beginning at o'clock last even ing, lower house members whipped through 10 measures, passing three
 Passed was House Bill 68 by theH Committee on Labor, extending the. provisions of Unemployment Com pensation payments from $16 tot $20 maximum weekly benefits and reducing the unemployed waiting period from two weeks to one week
 Passed was House Bill No. 73, byI Peratrovich and Vukovich, to en- able cities of the second class to- issue franchises for public utilities. The city of Craig was the town principally affected by the bill. At, present, Craig is reported to be ready to enter an agreement with parties who will operate the old lumber mill there and furnish the town with light.
 Also passed was Senate Joint Memorial Mo- 6, authored by Coffey and Collins The memorial prays the Federal Government construct a bridge across the narrow por- ton of Turnagain Arm to enable a road connection between An chorage and the Kenai Peninsula.
 House Bill 66, by ,McCutcheon, asking $1,50O,00O for bonus pay menus to returning Alaskan soldiers was advanced to engrossment for third reading after an amendment to raise the ante to three million was voted down.
 House Bill 21, pertaining to con- fidential nature of certain vital statistics was ordered held in sec ond reading for testimony from Auditor Frank Boyle. House Bill No. "A, Krauses seal bounty measure, extending the limits of the southern coastal bounty zone to include the Shu- magin Islands and Kodiak Island, was continued for further amend ment. {
 Students Tuition
 House Bill 6l, by Peterson and. Gill, to double the payment of tuition the Territory pays incor- porated cities for out-of town stu dents from $3.50 to S7, met a de- termined attempt to cut the pro- posed figure to S6 and provided temporary argument. The amend ment attempt was defeated and. the bill was ordered engrossed ons its way to final vote. l
 House Bill No. 70, by Peterson, McCutcheon and Taylor, providing for universal Territorial law re- quiring election of municipal magis- trates, was amended to apply to towns of 2,500 inhabitants instead of 1,500, and the tenure of office was extended to two years. The minimum salary prescribed is still $500. The bill was ordered en- groSSed
 House Bill II, by Johnson, would prevent person convicted of as- sault with a gun, homicide, or armed robbery from carrying con- cealed weapons and provides a two- year penalty. This bill also was engrossed
 House Bill 76, an amendment to- the Workmen's Compensation Act, by the Committee on Labor, was continued in second reading when question came up as to the defini- tion of the term Tabor" The bill would amend present, laws to in clude all labor groups where five used to be the limiting number, and to apply to employees of the Territorial Government and muni- cipalities, as well as broadening. other features of the act.
 The House adjourned at 10:30s p. m. until 10 o'clock this morning.