The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-10

fCoRnnued rum Page Onej tions from employers of eight ol more" The UCC, he said, has re- fused to bring in the bill with eight or more" coverage, saying take this or nothing.
 Marshall Keep, UCC attorney, answered that the Commission takes the view that the Legislature already has declared the policy of extending coverage to "one or more" employees, by the 1945 Act so covering other businesses. Oth- erwise. he confirmed Cochran s statements regarding the pressing need for the legislation and esti- mates of sums now waiting to go into the Alaska fund The bill, with emergency clause, passed the Sen ate unanimously and now must go back to the House for a second trip through that body
 H. B. 75, to extend authority of highway patrolmen into incorpor- ated cities, when it was before the Senate on Saturday, ran into fears by Senator Walker that it would upset the conduct of traffic in Ketchikan. But today, Walker had nothing to say. He moved for it's advancement to third reading and voted for it's passage as the mea- sure carried unanimously
 Walker today concentrated his opposition against Rep Vukovichs II. B. 59, which would require all nonresident hook and line fisher men to have s25 Alaska fishing li- censes before they could sell catch es in Alaska ports. Practically the only effect of the bill, it was stat ed, would be to bring halibut fish ermen under the catch. Resident halibut fishermen would have a sl tax to pay.
 Floyd F. Volk, Vice-President of the Ketchikan Spruce Mills. and Wallis s. George, President of the Juneau Cold Storage Company, ex- pressed the view that Alaska in- dustry would be a big loser if the bill was to pass-as it would tend to divert catches of big off-shore halibut boats into Prince Rupert and Seattle. All business in South east Alaska towns where there are cold storage plants would suffer, they said, through loss of money those boats now spend in restock- ing after selling their catches
 It was pointed out that Ketchi- kan would be very hard hit-up to 60 percent-of cold storage business with attendant box shook purchas- es etc That city now gets the bulk of such sales in Alaska, yet is only 90 miles from Prince Rupert, where the large boats would undoubtedly go to escape the S200 or so dollars tax they would have to pay to sell in Alaska
 Senator Cochran agreed with Senator Gunnard Engebreth that the bill would impose a tax not on fishing-as those boats fish out beyond the reach of Alaska juris- diction, "on the high seas'-but on sales.
 Senator Peratrovich, whose Fish at-iac ycf lo report, did not think much possible loss in business would be involved l and considered it unfair to tax trollers and not halibuters. Walker replied with a number of wires from Ketchikan business firms, all very much opposed to the bill and fearful Of big losses of trade should it pass.
 1 Senator Edward D. Coffey point ed out that the Third Division also would be affected, as halibut boats fishing Area frequently sell at Kodiak. He summed up that the bill would put on a "tWo-bit tax that could not be collected while driving away thousands of dollars worth of business
 The measure was killed. with Peratrovich, Dawes, Rivers and Green voting for it
 Senator Walker lifted eyebrows on several Senators when, just be- fore the noon recess until ? o'clock, he asked to have H. B. II. Rep. ] Snidel'S "A and R Barns Riil,f lp-