The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-17
LEGISLATURE VOTES TODAY
 ON NOMINEES
Senate Kills Move 10 h. vestigafe Appoinfees
 Qualifications

pointees to various Territorial boards. announced yesterday fore noon by Governor Ernest Gruening, brought about a bit of discussion when members of the Alaska Sem ate gathered together following the noon recess yesterday
 Senate President Edward D. Coffey announced that, as he had been instructed, he had met with representative of the House and had arranged for joint session of the two chambers, to act on the appointments, for 130 o'clock this afternoon. He asked for approval by the Senate of the time set.
 Senator Cochran, then, first sug- gested and later moved, the ad- visibility of the appointment of a select Senate committee of five to look into the qualifications of the appointees and report back to the Senate previous to the joint meet ing He declared it a legislative duty of the body to investigate the appointments, before acting to con- firm them. Such action would be no reflection on the Governor or the persons appointed, he said, but would merely be exercising that degree of descretion" intended by the law requiring the Legislatures confirmation.
 Senator Allen Snattuck agreed that the appointment of such committee would "set q very fine precedent" Senators Frank Gordon and Don Carlos Brownell, however, took stand against the motion, contending it to be the duty of the individual Senators to make up their own minds with regard to approving the appointments. Sen ator Andrew Nerland first spoke in favor of the motion and later lined up with the opposition.
 Caucus Session
 Senator Howard Lyng said that since the appointees were selected on a Divisional basis, the custom previously followed had been to consider the appointmen ents in caucus by the delegations from the various Divisions. Senator Lyng's point was concurred in by Presi- dent Coffey and the motion was brought to vote. 1t lost, 10 to l6. a Reading of certain communica- tions addressed to the President of. the Senate from the Convention of the Alaska Territorial Fedora tion of Labor, interrupted by ad- journment Thursday afternoon, was continued at the request of Sen- ator Gordon, who added a recom- lnendation from the AT'FL for pas sage of the Income Tax Act to the list.
 Other recommendations contained in the communications were for: Passage of House Bills Nos l and 8; passage of Senate Bill No. 2, which had already passed the Sem ate, and establishment of fund from which the Territorial Board of Health should pay for the medi- cal examination of persons handl- ing food and dispensing beverages at periods of every 90 days, instead of the present yearly examinations required at the expense of en- ployers.
 Senator BroWnell gave notice that he planned to move today for a change in the Senate rules to re- quire that standing committees be limited to 10 days for consideration of bills referred to them.
 Election Law
 Senator N R. Walker again at tempted to put across a motion for definite postpon m ent when Senate Bill No. 5 was brought up for second reading. The bill, intro duced by Senator Leo w. Rogge early in the session, would change the primary election law of the Territory to require filing by in- cumbent elective officers by one month prior to the last day for general filing of other candidates.
 It was accompanied by an Elec- tions Committee amendment limit ing the requirement to the Delegate to Congress and other officials generally throughout the Territory, excluding members of the Legis- lature and other purely Divisional offices. Senator Cochran proposed a clarifying amendment to the amendment and on vote, both amendments were adopted.
 Senator Walker again lost his indefinite postponement motion by a margin of II to 5, but not until much inspired oratory had been expended around the bill; very little of which touched on the matter under consideration. Taking forensic filings were Senator Walker, who appealed to the founding fathers" of the Democratic Party; Senator Cochran; Senator Nerland, who expressed the Republican side; Senator Gordon; Senator Howard Lyng, and Senator Rogge.
 Delegation Votes
 One other amendment, offered by Senator Gordon, sought to amend the Declaration of Candidates" by striking clause that he declared required the person filing to