The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-12
SENATE KILLS PAIR OF ACTS THIS MORNING
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 stead Exemptions Lost

stead Exemptions Lost
 Getting a bit over their heads
 n technical legal language this morning, members of the Alaska
 Senate got firm ground under their .eet again by the simple means of
 filling two measures the intent and
 ,xtent of which were not quite clear to them: Senate Bills and /, companion measures seeking to icuble homestead lien exemptions
 Proponents of the two bills were ,onspicuously absent and with no ne apparently having enough in- crest in the measures to point out benefits to be accomplished, the legislative companions met sudden ieath.
 S.B. was killed by an 8 to 8
 ote. S.B. T, considerably more tech nical and to all odds out of line without it's co-legislation, was set own by the wider margin of 5 to II.
 No. 2 did not die, however, before had been used by the Senate majority as springboard for criti-
 ism of Senate President Edward ,. Coffey, at whom Senators how-
 I'd Lyng and Frank Gordon aimed
 arbed questions as to why he had
 ot referred so technical a measure o the Judiciary Committee. Both 5.B. and S.B. T had come out of the Taxation Committee with un-
 nimcus do pass" recommends ions.
 President Coffey merely answered hat his judgment had indicated he taxation group as a logical hoice to investigate the bills. He gas promptly supported by Sena- ors N. R. Walker and Allen Shat tuck.
 Senator Shattuck, sponsor of two pills, both of which had been en- lorsed by the Juneau Bar Associa- ion, was their sole vocal supporter md he was far from eloquent in heir espousal
 Both measures quickly reached he Third Reading and Final Pas sage stage this morning. Coming ID at the head of the calendar, hey were moved along under sus- ended rules without amendment sxcept deletion of the emergency ,lause in No. T.
 Falls By WaysiGe
 S.B. 6, increasing individual homestead exemptions from $2,500 10 $5,O0O, was first to fall by the wayside. In answer to Senator Don Carlos BroWnells query as to pur- pose of the bill, Sen. Shattuck de- Jared it to be just an effort to compensate for the shrinking pur- ,hasing power of the dollar. Brown Fl pointed out at "far-fetched' 5hattuck's tieing in the measure with aid to veterans and was join d by Senators Andy Gundersen, Q. D. Cochran and Andrew Ner- and in assumption that the in sreasing lien exemptions would ad- gersely affect credit status.
 The same argument, plus the ad- ded complications within the mea- sure, brought overwhelming defeat o S.B. T, which would have in ;reased from $5,000 to $10,000 the exemption for tenants in entirety )f real property.
 Following disposal of the two ex- mption measures, S.B. l, the Green -Shattuck' Workmen's Con- pensation Act was next on the cal endar for Second Reading and Amendment, but consideration of it was deferred when Senator Frank Whaley pleaded that the Commit zee on Veterans Affairs needed time 0 prepare amendments to the Walker Veterans Loan-Bonus Bill l which is a special order of business 1 .or Committee of the Whole hear ng by the Senate again this after noon. On Whaley's motion, the Senate recessed till o'clock this afternoon when the Committee ot l the Whole was to resume. Two New Bills Two new bills both of special