The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-27

quest that the measure be returned to the House. In absence of such request, there was nothing more that the Senate could do with the bill
 Also. in the Senate's view, the brief round trip the bill made down from the Governors Office to the Senate in no way preiudices the elapse of time since the Governor received the bill, on Monday after noon, and the executive is still re- quired to veto or do otherwise as he sees fit with it by this after noon.
 The Governor cited an opinion of the Attorney General that pos sible irregularity of it's passage night be productive of litigation if the measure is finally enacted. Legal lights in the Senate, however, were confident that the courts would sustain the legality of its passage.
 After disposing of that knotty problem to their satisfaction, the Senators turned back to their cal endar
 Two Times Dead
 As expected. they quickly sat on Fl. B. IF, the lower chamber re- flection of the Rivers Walker net ancome tax bill the Senate had previously killed Indefinite post ponement carried by a 9 to vote with Senator Frank Peratrovich ab sent
 Two other repeaters were before the upper house during the after noon. One of them, H. B 99 to in crease maximum aid payments for dependent children, was voted down a second time. The other. by still unexplained quirk, received unanimous passage on it's second time up. The passed measure was II. B. 53. appropriating S165.000 for constructing and equipping hospi- tals-an almost duplicate of Sen ator Victor Rivers defeated $. B. 98. A unanimous do pass" from the Finance Committee may have turned the trick.
 A top-speed trip through the Senate was accorded House Joint Memorial 39, by Maurice Johnson. which asks that commercial air craft not be ruled off Ladd and Elmendorf Army Airfields until adequate airports can be provided by the cities of Fairbanks and An chorage. With no discussion and no motions wasted the memorial was unanimously passed, within four minutes of the time it was sreceived fran Eae House. q
 Hospital Claims
 The most troublesome measure acted upon was the Senate Finance Committees substitute measure for both Senate Bill 86 and House Bill 65. Comnining a number of claims by hospitals throughout Alaska for reimbursement for care given in- digents, the bill came up on the calendar without yet having been formally accepted in lieu of the two measures it would supplant. And, considerable discussion fol- lowed before it was adopted.
 Senator O. D. Cochran re-stated the stand taken the day before by Finance Committee member John Butrovich, Jr; that if the claims were just they should be paid off in full. The Substitute proposed to pay off at 10 cents on the dollar Finance Chairman Joe Green pointed out that some of the claims ran back as far as 1887 and none the Department of Public Welfare He argued they were no obligation of the Territory.
 In reply to a query by President Andrew Nerland, as to the iustifi- cation for the claims, Senator Cochran recited the circumstances behind the claim from the May ard-Columbus Hospital at Nome Senator Leo Rogge assured the President that claims from Fair banks should rightfully be assumed by the Territory. All the Fairbanks bills were for 1946, stated the auth or of s. B. 36
 Pay off In Full
 Finally, by general agreement, the substitute was accepted and the amounts to be appropriated for each hospital were amended up to 100 percent of the bills presented, to make total of $l6,47270. In that form the bill passed.
 A deficiency appropriation to pay off help of the current Legis- ature was presented by President Nerland, in Senate Joint Resolution 3. It was received and passed. In addition to $500 for the boiler room" crews, it carries an appro- priation of S2l0 to pay three leg islators for days missed at the be-