The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-24
HOUSE VOTE.
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Said 10 Be First Time in AL aska History ChiefExeeu-
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i've MOI 9uSIdiHcu Taking precedent-s -shattering ac- tion, the House of Representatives late Saturday afternoon voted to concur with the Senate in over- riding the veto of the Governor on Senate Bill 32, the bill to re- peal the gross tax on gold and set up graduated net tax on all types of mining.
 This is said to have been the first time in Alaskas legislative history, which extends back to 1913, that the veto of a governor has not been sustained. The House vote was l8 to 6 and the bill had previously passed the veto by 13 to in the Senate.
 The vote was taken after long hours of testimony and discussion, of the kill itself and of the mining industry in Alaska. It was a tense moment when Chief Clerk William L. Paul began to call the roll and it was by far the most dramatic roll call of this session, perhaps of any session of the Alaska Legislature
 Shall Senate Bill No. 32 pass notwithstanding the Governors veto?" Speaker Oscar Gill put the question.
 Slowly and at measured inter- vals the clerk called the names, and the answers were recorded.
 Almquist, no.
 Carl Anderson, yes
 Edward Anderson. yes.
 Barnett, nc.
 Coble, yes.
 Egan, yes.
 Engstrom, yes.
 Garnick no.
 Five to three the vote stood. The air was electric and scarcely a bfeath was drawn as the roll was called. The answers boomed in the dead silence like the measur- ed firing of salute gun:
 Hope, yes
 Hoopes, yes.
 Huntley, no.
 Frank Johnson, yes
 Maurice Johnson, yes.
 Joy, yes.
 Laws, yes.
 McCutcheon, no.
 Eleven to five the count stood, and the intervals between calls seemed like eternity as the roll continued.
 Meath. yes.
 Newell, yes.
 Nolan, yes.
 Ost, yes.
 Fifteen to five, with one more vote needed for passage. and in the intervals there was a faint outletting of 'long-held breaths, like the soft deflating of distant balloon.
 Pollard yes.
 Snider, yes.
 Vukovich, yes
 MT. Speaker, no.
 Another dead silence, then Assistant Clerk Bonnie Jo Gron- roos announced the result:
 Yeas, 18; nays, G."
 The salute was ended, salute of 13 stout yeas" A salute to what? A declaration of inde pendence, perhaps? To freedom from the Federal yoke? Whatever it was, something had happened something more than just vote on a tax bill There was some- thing in the air that was not there before. The dam had brok- en, the letters had been loosed, and there was jubilation on many faces. On others there was a wooden and myielding stolidity and on some there were set scowls.
 Long Hearing
 The mining tax bill when it ap- peared before the House for its  second hearing and second approv al, received a hearing which last ed most of the day, with occa sional interruptions for receiving messages from the Senate or for other routine business. Among those who spoke on s. B. 32 were Glenn Franklin, pri- vate mining operator; Al Ander- son, executive secretary of the Alaska Miners Association: Henry Roden, former Senator and Attor- hey General; George Rogers, econ omist for the Interior Department, assigned to the Governors office, and M. P Mullaney, Territorial Tax Commissioner, Glenn Franklin. a graduate of the University of Alaska. who with