The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-05
SENATEGIvES FULL VOTE ON
 3A(TST0DAy.
Equal Rights Measure Hearing Scheduled for
 This Afternoon

Alaska's 16 Senators were practi- cally of one mind this forenoon, as the upper chamber unanimously voted passage of three measures, one in the regular order of busi- ness. two under suspended rules. Meeting with the favor of the body were: Senate Bill No. ', Senate Bill No. Is, and Senate Joint Memorial No. 2
 Reported out of standing commit tees with do pass" recommenda- tions this morning were: By the Ed ucation Committee: House Bill No. 14 Senator Frank Whaley not con- curring) and Senate Bill No. Is; by the Finance Committee: Senate Bill No. II and House Bill No. 13; by the Fisheries Committee. Senate Joint Memorial No. l, House Bill No. and Senate Concurrent Reso- lution No. l.
 The Finance Committee of the Senate gave a do not pass to House Bill No. 10, Senator Edward D. Cof- fey not concurring. and the Taxa tion Committee reported out without recommendation the Income Tax measure, Senate Bill No. 12. The bill was referred to the Finance Committee and was accompanied by a request from Taxation that it be considered by a Joint Committee of the Senate and House following Finance Committee action.
 No new bills were introduced in the Senate today.
 On the regular calendar for pas sage was Senate Bill No. 2, by Sen ator o. DCochran, which provides for the appointment of nonresident executors of estates. Without dis cussion it received vote of l6 yeas.
 Senator N R. Walker asked sus- pension of rules on his Senate Bill No. Is, which brings under the mar cotic regulations of the Territory the drug Isonipecaine. A letter was offered by Senator Walker and read, containing an urgent request from the Commissioner of Narcotics in Washington, D. C., urging regu- lation of the use of the drug and describing it as vicious and habit forming. Senator Walker stated that Isopipecaine is, as yet, not known in Alaska, but that it has been introduced with detrimental effect in Southern California, and urged passage of the bill as precau- tionary measure. Senator Walker moved the inclusion in the bill of the emergency clause and with that clause added the measure was speed ed through final unanimous pas sage.
 Senator Joe Green withdrew his Senate Memorial No. l and offer ed as substitute Senate Joint Memorial No 2, with the same con- tent, but, as had been recommended informally by the Judiciary Com mittee, subjecting the measure to ac- ton by both Houses. The Memorial asks action by the State Department to secure United States jurisdiction over a stretch of 42 miles of the road linking Haines, Alaska, to the Alas ka Highway which runs through British Columbia and the Yukon Territory
 Under suspended ruless, the sub stitute Memorial was passed by the Senate, without dissent.
 Weekend winds which blew down the Douglas city dock, also blew Senate Bill No. 9 right out of the Senate, when Senator Green witn- drew from consideration his bill, which would have made an appro- priation to reconstruct the ap- breaches to the wharf.
 The Senate closed it's morning ses- sion by recessing until 3 o'clock this afternoon, which time had been set for Committee of the Whole hear ing on Senate Bill No 4. twin mea- sure to the Equal Rights" bill which has already passed the House.