The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-16
SENATE LENDS
 EAR TO BAKER
Publisher 5 Views on Mat fers Pertaining to Body
 Called For

ul obtiil6 ito lSSChNAy uSOHtC0 POA icy of deferring it's regular order ot business till after presentation ot the days choice tit-bit, Alaska { Senate this morning heard an open ing request from Ketchikan Senator N. R. Walker that Ketchikan Chronicle publisher William L. Bak- CT be called to the stand to give his views "on matters pertaining to this body"
 By unanimous consent, the Ser geant- -at-Arms was dispatched fol Mir. Baker, but the morning hours whiled away without the Ketchikar publishers appearance so the pleasure of hearing his comments was inyoluntarily deferred.
 Getting down to the daily cal endar, the Senate this afternoon completed the full reading of lengthy Senate Bill l, the Green-Shattuck Workmen's Compensation Act. The measure was read without interrup- tion with the understanding that amendments be withheld till after 2 Senate Committee of the Whole hearing to be held on the bill next Monday morning The bill was con- tinued in second reading so that following the Whole Committee ses- sion, it may be thrown open to amendment. The public hearing or the bill was asked by author Joe Green, at the request of other mem- bers of the body.
 The Senate took cnly two votes this morning: On recess until Z o'clock this afternoon, which car ried, and on motion to suspend the rules by Senator Don Carlos Brcwnell which lost, 3 to II.
 Object of the Brownell motion was to require that any bills referred tc Senate committee on or before the fifteenth day, must be reported back to the floor on or before the twenty fifth day. Brownell stated he wish ed to avoid any measures being left hanging fire on the Senate calendar at the end of this special session. as happened at the last regular ses- sion.
 The Senate adopted the report of the Joint Committee on Rules of the Senate and House that next Monday, the fifteenth day be estab- iished as the deadline for intro duction of bills and that the fol- lowing Saturday, the twentieth day be the deadline for interchange of measures between the two houses; without rule suspension in each case.
 Messages received from Governor Ernest Gruening announced his sig nature of House Joint Resolution No. 1, to pay legislative salaries and expenses, and Senate Bill 8 the quarter million dollar tubercu- losis control appropriation.
 Eight House-passed bills were re- ceived from that body The eight, topped by the House version of the Veterans Loan-Bonus Act with their Senate committee reference are
 H.B. A, Vets Act, to Veterans Af- fairs and Finance; HUM. l, peti- tioning Congress for 75 per cent civic public works grants-i maid, to Muni- cipal Affairs; HB. l, liberalizing Unemployment Compensation bene- fits, Labor; HB. 4, Blanket Primary Referendum, Election Laws; HB. G. direct election of Mayors, Judiciary and Municipal Affairs; HB IS, in creasing wolf and coyote bounties Fisheries and Game; H.B. 20, Health Department Act penalty and sav- ings clauses, Public Health; H.B. 28 pinball and slot machine licensing Taxation.
 Two more Senate Bills, both re- quest measures introduced by Shat tuck, were put put before that body this morning: S.B. 26, providing for a mobile marine clinic for the De- partment of Health lo replace the Hygiene; S.B. 27, making SUD- plemental appropriation to the De- partment of Health for administra- tion and sanitation in the total amount of $22,574.83. Both measures were referred to the Health Com mittee, then to Finance.
 When the Senate convened again this afternoon, at 2 o'clock, special order of business was to be ques- tioning of M. P Mullaney, Tax Commissioner nominee. as to his qualifications for the office.