The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-06
DEVELOPMENT BILL ISpASSED BY SENATOR'S
St2O,OOO Appropriation Stands Up Under
 Knife Attacks

all the way out for planned de-
 velopment of the Territory. The
 Senators loosed the purse strings and stacked up their votes in
 favor of the Alaska Development
 Board Bill, complete with $120,000 ill appropriations.
 The measure, Senate Bill Mo- 43, authored by the Juneau Chamber of Commerce and sponsored by Senators N. R. Walker and Howard Lyng, was approved without amend
 ment, by a IA to count. Only
 w. Rogge cast their votes in op- position.
 Several amendments were pro- posed, but all were defeated, as the majority of solons determined to go down the line for the bill ''as is" Senate President Edward D. Coffey, one of the most ardent packers of the proposal, was first
 to suggest change, asking to strike provision in the measure authorizing the Development Board
 to propose legislation, both for Federal aid and for Territorial &C.,
 ton. Senator Coffey's opposition to provisions was based on fear that it might make for politics" in the administration of the act.
 Appropriation Affirmed
 Most concerted attack was direct cd at the appropriation Senator Shattuck moved to reduce the lamcunt provided to s40,O0O for the
 biennium, while Senator o. D.
 Cochran wanted for a time to strike the entire appropriation clause. The Nome Senator suggested
 that the appropriation would better
 be left to the General Appropria-
 tions Bill. He back-tracked and
 withdrew his amendment, however, when an opinion of Alaskas At
 torney General was expressed that
 no monies could be provided from
 the General Appropriation unless
 a specific sum were first named
 in the Development Bill
 Senator Shattuck backed his proposal for a lesser sum by ref
 erence to data already compiled
 by the old pre-war Alaska Planning
 Council, which expired in 1941. EEie declared the great present need is. to make that information avail si able to those interested in Alaska. X President Coffey stepped down r from the rostrums to counter that : he did not think the Alaska Plan- 5 ming Council had ever accomplished the purpose for which it was in- l tended-that the old information will, no doubt, be very valuable, : but that spreading it around is far : from the whole job that should be ? done now and in the near future. ? We must have men actually go : out into the field and work to de- : velop the Territory, he said. To l accomplish what is needed, the l Development Board must have suf- f tlelent funds available to do : real job = not just enough for ? clerk hire.
 Looks Into Future
 7 Senator Lyng opined: Some
 members of this legislature are
 locking backward always" what is needed now is to look into the : future
 After all amendments were voted | dewn, the Senate suspended it's rules to move the measure to final vote, which was taken without previous discussion except a re- mark by Senator Grenold Collins. who declared: We don't want a ! cneap man for this job-we1l get
 only what we are willing to pay 2 for"
 Following passage of No. 43. Sen- ator Shattuck withdrew his Senate Bill No. A, which would have set
 up an Alaska Information Agency. 0 at cost of S30,000, with limited parallel functions to the Develop :. ment Board.
 While the Development Bill was the main item of business of the day, the Senators yesterday after. e noon got in several other good Iicks at their swelling calendar.
 Tuberculosis Fund
 Unanimous votes were counted ', for passage of House Joint Mem z orlals Nos. 5 and 8, neither meas
 ure being amended No. 5 is a
 measure conceived by the Alaska . Tuberculosis Association. It asks e Congress to provied adequate funds 9 for an effective tuberculosis con- l trol program in the Territory pointing out that the mortality : rate for the disease in Alaska is t seven times greater than in the I United States proper. House Joint e Memorial No. is addressed to President Roosevelt, to the Secre- e tary of. the Interior and to Con- g gress, praying that Alaska be all l lowed to elect it's own governor. }. Also passed unanimously was 2 Senate Joint Resolution No. 5, by I Senator Joe Green, authorizing the n Territorial Department of Public
 Welfare to expend $60 per month