The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-23
SENATE FIDDLES WHILE MEASURES
 KEEP FILING up
Pioneers Home Board Revision Is Passed, Also
 Sanitary Appropriation

Though facing the deadline on
 exchange of bills between houses,
 without suspension of rules, with still a lengthy list of their own measures stacked up before them, members of the Alaska Senate
 this morning appeared not at all
 concerned about getting those bills
 across to the other body.
 Instead, the top-drawer lawmak-
 CTS frivolled away the larger share of the morning session in scram-
 bling up a minor amendment to Senate Bill 20, which re-creates the Board of Trustees of the Pioneers
 Home. The amendment as written in at the suggestion of Senator N. R. Walker will likely just give the 1 House more work to do in order to straighten things out. The bill was finally passed by Is to Rogge vote
 Also passed by the Senate this morning was S.B. 27, appropriating additional funds to the Health De- partment to match Federal Sanita- ton grants and to pay the Con- missioner's salary. On recommen-
 dation of the Finance Committee, the amount originally asked was chopped down by about S7000 to $15, ,729.83. Vote for final passage was Is to Senator O. D. Cochran who got in final punch regarding the refusal to purchase the Sydney Laurence Mt. Mckinley painting by remarking that he would think
 tne sl5,O00 now voted to the Health Department would be better de- voted to purchase of ham and eggs. Top of the Senates calendar this morning was Walkers S.B. 32, for Southeast Alaska extension of the University of Alaska. Tne Ketchi- kan solon successfully wrote in his
 added provision that the Board of Regents may expend the $l5o,000 ap-
 propriation when they deem adyis- able and empowering them to ac- cept matching funds.
 1 Walker missed out, though, on his other new section which would have
 barred expenditure of any part of
 the appropriation for purchase of a site.
 Upon completion Of amendment, Walker asked for rule suspension {, to act on passage of the bill i'm
 mediately, but did not press the point. when his fellow Ketchikan /! Senator, Andy Gundersen, objected. Another amendment to the mea- sure, by Senator Don Carlos Brown ell. struck the restriction of courses or study at the 5. E. Branch to Fisheries, Forestry and Diesel En- gineering.
 ! The awaited report of the Joint Conference Committee on the Vet erans Bill was not forthcoming ln
 either chamber this morning, be- cause there had not been time to prepare the lengthy report. It was
 indicated, however, that it would
 be ready at 230 o'clock this af- tternoon and the Senate recessed until that time; after voting that ithe Taxation Committee report out
 House Bill 26, the gross income tax
 measure for which it had previous lly returned a sales tax substitute.
 One committee report was received
 by the Senate this morning, from
 Mining, giving no recommendation ito HE. 13, a prospectors aid act. Received from the House were: An
 other mining measure, asking a sur Ivey for an ore sampling plant and custom mill, Committee Substitute
 for House Bill 14. It was referred
 to Finance and to Mining. HUM Is, asking that the Alaska Road
 Commission and Public Roads Ad-
 ministration provide wide spots in Alaska roads for landing fields, was
 referred to Transportation. H. J
 M. 6. asking Homesteaders aid, was sent to Judiciary.