The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-09
NEW LIQUOR
 ENFORCEMENT pR0p05AL Up
Amendment Would Create Policing Seiup Under
 Attorney General
By JIM HUTCHINSON

Debate over the mot potato'' liquor control bill ran into the third day in the House today as new controversial amendment hit the floor.
 Speaker Stanley McCutcheon off, < cred an amendment this morning to create new department of liquor enforcement under the att torlley general. It would provide up 70 four deputies, with an enforce nent office in each division. Their salaries would not be more than s6,000 yearly. and men with at least two years of college training are specified.
 It set off new phase of debate on the bill which already has kert the House bottled up through Mon- day night, yesterday and last night.
 Prior to McCutcheon-s amenG- ment to the bill that he referred to last night as "a hot potato" the House rejected on an II to l2 vote an amendment by Mrs. Esste Dale to provide earmarking of 10 per cent of liquor license and tax re- ceipts for construction and opera tion of rehabilitation homes and hospitals for alcoholics.
 It came up again on McCutch- cons motion for reconsideration of the vote by which it failed last night.
 Opposition Starts
 McCutcheon's law enforcement di- vision immediately ran into op- position from Rep. Frank Anger man, Fairbanks Democrat, who as- sailed the college-educated proviso and failed in an attempt to get the amendment changed to provide op- eration of the division under the treasurer instead Of the attorney general.
 In arguing for his amendment, McCutcheon declared:
 T think Alaskans would be whole heartedly for a department of liquor enforcement. The only way to do the job is to set up a division for it. Enforcement be. longs to the attorney general"
 Angernan argued that an en- forcement setup already Is provided under the treasurer, but the barrier to it's work has been a $2O monthly salary maximum. McCutcheon re- piled that the treasurer's enforce ment provision was a hold lover from the era when liquor stamps provided the chief assignment
 In criticizing the college educa- ton requirement., Angerman declar- d it would create an unjust bar rier; that comparatively few Alaska residents could qualify, and that some legislators haven't even completed high school educations, but still are qualified to make laws"
 McCutcheon said the aim was to get the highest possible calibre of personnel, familiar with legal prob. lemS.
 Debate on the amendment was tc continue this afternoon.
 NIGHT SESSION
 The liquor bill narrowly averted lndefinite postponement last night. The vote was l2 to II in favor, but the chair ruled B votes were re- quired to apply the coup de grace to the bill.
 One of the votes for indefinite postponement was by Taylor, the sponsor of the measure, so he would have been in position to move for reconsideration if the motion had prevailed.
 The others who voted for post- ponement were Angerman, Barnes, Egan. Franklin. Gundersen, Hope, Jensen, Frank L. Johnson. Ipalosk. Miscovich. Rydeen.
 Mrs. Gundersen made the post ponement motion
 Yesterday afternoon brought a flood of amendments to the bill and last nights session brought flood of words.
 Fifteen amendments were offered during the afternoon and sGht were adopted.