The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-18
STATEHOOD
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 HOUSE TIFF
Attempt to Block Bill Be- cause of Delayed
 Arrival Fails
By JIM HUTCHINSON


 Delayed arrival in the House of he Senate bill for creation of statehood committee stirred up a controversy in the lower chamber last night.
 An attempt was made to block the bill on the ground that it was not listed by number on the list ot bills passed in the Senate on the 50th day. and transmitted to the House by number only. The two Houses had an agreement on the transmittal by number because or the jam of bills to be processed on the 50th night-which was the headline for each house to consid- CT it's own bills without suspension of the rules. N Reps. Glen Franklin and Marcus Jensen, who have been the most consistently independent Democrats in the House, and Frank Angerman joined in the fight against accept ing the bill.
 Rep. William Egan was in the chair at the time. He ruled that the bill should be received b. cause it passed the Senate before the 50th day deadline. He said the intent of the inter-house agreement was that anything passed during that day or evening would be re- ceived and an omission on the list shouldn't shut out the bill
 Senate Secretary Bonnie Jo cfIonroos was summoned, and she explained that a corrected list had been sent to the House With the statehood bill, SB 49, on it.
 Bill Accepted
 The House majority finally up- held the ruling of the chair and accepted the bill after an argu- ment in which Rep. Essie Dale once charged that the opposition was prompted by "animosity."
 The House passed the Senate bill limiting the liability of stockhold- CTS" in Territory chartered banks, but only after knocking out the liability limiting section. Speaker Stanley McCutcheon made the mo- ton to strike the section, arguing that double liability of stockholders should be retained despite federal insurance in order to keep them cautious.
 The House also knocked out section that would have authoriz- ed the Territorial Banking Board to exempt federally-insured banks from Territorial examination.
 The bill was introduced by the Senate committee on banking.
 Wickersham Day
 During the afternoon, the House completed legislative approval of the Senate bill for designation of August 24 as Wickersham Day in Alaska. The date commemorates both the birthday of Judge James Wickersham and the date of the b,rth of the organic act in the drafting of which he played such an important role. The measure was introduced by Senator Anita Garnick and cites many of the contributions of the late judge and first delegate to Congress. It sug- pests the day be commemorated with suitable public observances.
 Other Senate bills approved by the House included:
 Limiting precincts to 800 voters to eliminate the election day jams and long delays in vote counting at Fairbanks and Anchorage; estab- lishing machinery for dissolution of qchool districts; eliminating money in banks and so-called intangibles- stocks. bonds, mortgages, etc-from liability to the property tax of municipalities. The change was made by inserting tangible in reference to personal property in he old tax law. Actually, muni- cipalities have not attempted to collect on intangible, but they have remained subject to tax under the existing law.
 The House passed 20 to mem- orial by Rep. Andrew Hope against a proposed congressional act to al- low Federal agencies to tighten up on taking of fish from streams Il Alaska. It was amended, how
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