The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-05
One Measure Has Passed
 Both Houses
Bill to Provide Funds for Old Age Assistance
 Goes 10 Governor

The first bill to pass both houses of the Eighteenth Legislature, Sen- ate Bill 6, to appropriate S5,000 to pay old age assistance benefits during the remainder of the cur rent biennium, was quickly showed through second and third readings and on to final passage by the House yesterday afternoon The vote on final passage was g yeas, with one member absent.
 Earlier, the House had passed H. B. 8. the Fish Trap Referendum bill, by a vote of 19 to 4, with one absent The vote was somewhat de- layed by efforts to get full at tendance before roll was called
 Immediately after the House re- convened at D. m, Rep. Maurice Johnson moved to have the bill continued in third reading for week, to permit getting more in- formation. The motion was recog- nized by Speaker Gill, who had de- nied the same motion as out of order during the forenoon session, but lost on a roll call vote, Is to B.
 Rep. Johnson tEep asked that the privilege of the floor be granted to Archie Shiels of the Pacific American Fisheries. This also re- quired a motion and roll call, and carried IA to g.
 Washington Fisheries
 MT. Shiels made a brief state ment regarding the effect of abol ishing the traps on the salmon in- dustry on Puget Sound The Gov ernor of Washington in his mes sages to the State Legislature in 1887 and 1889 had called the at tention of that body to the error that had been made in abolishing the traps, MT Shiels said. He also pointed out that the canned salmon industry, which had ranked third in the industries of Washington in 1884, when the traps were elim- mated, has now fallen to tenth place
 Pack reports show that since 1884 the pack of sockeyes. on the Wash ington side had gone down while the pack on the Fraser River has in creased, MT Shiels said. In ex- planation of this, he said that the fish pass through American waters first but do not school up there, and traps are the only feasible means of catching them.
 Instead of the number of sein- CTS increasing in Washington af- ter the traps were eliminated MT. Shiels reported that the number of seine licenses there have de- creased since 1884
 Upon being questioned by the members as to whether buyers prefer trap-caught to seine-caught fish, Mir Shiels said that he had no knowledge of the preferences of retail buyers, but that wholesalers prefer trap-caught fish, and that during the war the U S. Govern ment took the trap-caught fish first, then filled it's quota, if nec- essary, with seine fish.
 House Bills A and l5, having toi do with standards for dairy barns and transferring jurisdiction over Territorial Veterinarians from the Governor to the Department of Agriculture, were passed through second reading with number of minor amendments.
 Rep. Gerrit "Heinie" Snider, dur ing the amending process, convulsed House members and the gallery with code description of the two standard types of barns recognized by the National Code.
 An "A" barn, he said, is one with concrete floor and in which the COWS are kept in stanchions at all times, while a "B" barn "is as big as this House of Representa- tives and the cows can wander around in it as freely as they ,,1a