The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-04-02
NIGHT SESSION 5EESSENAT0RS HIT T0pSpEEED
Senators Let Down Bars 10 Receive Last-Minute !
 Precautionary ACf

sic Science Act passed during the forenoon and the gas tax rewrite, HE. GA, and new H.J.R. 2 gaining passage in the afternoon session, that made a total of 12 measures passed upon by the Senators Mon day.
 Two of the measures acted upon by the Senate last evening met sudden death, via the indefinite postponement route. They were :; Senate Bill 25, appropriating an additional S125,000 to the Depart ment of Public Welfare, and H.B. 38, which would have permitted Territorial Officials to travel out side Alaska at Territorial expense with the consent of the Board of Administration.
 Surviving an indefinite postpone ment motion, but killed on final vote was HB. 62, to pay irregular ly made claims for wolf and coyote bounties.
 H.B. 35, another bounty measure, sl,561 deficiency appropriation to pay for eagles killed before re- peal, of the eagle bounty, also sur vived an early threat--to table it. but was able to squeak through to passage.
 Also passed last evening, all by substantial margins. were:
 S.B. IS, prescribing qualifications for police officers in first class cities; H. B.58, $1,200 sup plernental appropriation for the office of the Attorney General to be used for law compilation; H.B. 3l. increasing pay of election offi- cials from $7:50 to $15 per day, HB. 25, increasing perdiem in lieu of subsistence for travelling Terri torial employees from s6 to s7 per day.
 HB 68, making a permanent in crease in legislative pay from S15 to $22, per day also passed. The naea- sure came over from the House with a $l0 lawmaker pay boost pro- 'vided The Senators, however, cut the. added pay to s7 to make it conform to the subsistence allow anoe to Territorial employees. A companion measure received from the House and passed by the Sem ate Monday afternoon was House Resolution No 3. It carries an ap- propriation for the added pay for the legislators attending this spec ial session Also included in H. J. R. is post-session pay for the President and Secretary of the Sen- ate and the Speaker and Chief Clerk of the House for compiling the Journal.
 The Senate also wrote into the Resolution a bonus for House and Senate employees to compensate them for overtime.
 Senators N. R. Walker and Frank Gordon almost reached the mill lenium when they found themselves measure providing that extra $2l0 for each lawnaker, Gordon went on record with the un-Scottish de- claration that he would not accept his chunk. Walker was just about as idealistic and hardly more prac- tical. The Ketchikan solon an- nounced' he will donate his $210 to the Southeast Alaska branch of the University of Alaska.
 One other action taken by the Senate during the afternoon ses- sion assured passage for H.B. 27 The Senators receded from theiI amendments to that bill authoriz- ing purchases of surplus govern n1ent structures for housing vet erans attending the University oi Alaska. The Senate action restored the appropriation at $l00,000 anc the responsibility for administra. ton in the Alaska Housing Auth ority Upper chamber changes. has halved the fund and vested auth ority in the Board of Regents.
 Also considered by the solons yes terday was SB. l9, appropriatinl $60p0O fof landing fields at Nak flek and Dillingham;. The measur NaA once faced. with indefinit postponement but survived to pas tb the Third Reading stage on to days calendar,
 The old argument about file galty was hauled out against tn bill, but co-author Grenold Collir referred to the appropriation ( 5000 made on the last day of tn 1945 session as precedent for sue specific appropriations. Collins dt clared he had been willing to sta out of the pork barrel as long { that was the rule of the Senat but the Petersburg bill tore the | off.
 Collins also argued that Brist Bay has contributed up to on third of the Territory's revenu and received very little in return that the airfields are much needt for bringing cannery workers in the area.
 The Senate was to re-convei this morning at 10 o'clock. for th sessinr,s final day- The Senatn