The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-01
JONES ACT OVERHAUL
 REQUESTED
Senate Also Passes Attor- ney Generals $ Pay Bi|I-
 Refund for School Boards
By BOB DeARMOND

A Senate Memorial asking an overhaul of the Jones Act (Mer- chant Marine Act of l920) to re- move the gross discrimination con- tained therein against the Territory of Alaska" was passed by the Sen- ate by l2-4 vote.
 The memorial, introduced by Sen- ator Victor c. Rivers, was attacked by Senator Collins and other Sena- tors as double -barreled" in that it seeks opening certain Alaskan trade routes to Canadian vessels and at the same time requests that Congress and the U. s. Maritime Commission promptly take steps to institute a water borne transporta- tion service to Alaska, whether by government operation or otherwise. "
 Senator Rivers admitted that the memorial is double -barreled" and said it was Intentionally so. A motion by Senator Peratrovich to send the measure back to committee for redrafting as two separate memorials was defeated. Amendments offered by Senator Garnick to remove from the mem orial a reference to employer-em ployee controversies and by Sena- tor Barr to delete the request for government operation of ships, were also defeated.
 Special Services Pay House Bill 45, to appropriate $340l for the Office of the Attorney General, including $2500 for special legislative services performed by Attorney General Rivers, also pass ed the Senate this morning, by un- animous vote
 The bill was introduced in the House with a $l,000 item for the Attorney Generals services as legis- lative counsel and was boosted to $2500 before passage by the House Senator Barr offered an amend ment to change the wording from "extra Legislative Counsel services to extra expense incurred in con- nection with legislative duties" He pointed out that the Attorney General is required to act as Legis- 1 lative Council and is paid for the work and that the law prohibits officials being given additional compensation.
 "The law doesn't require the At torney General to work overtime
 on his job," Senator Butrovich as- ! serted. With more than 80 bills
 already introduced in the House,
 and with only one typist to help
 him, he has put in a lot of extra work and I feel he should be paid for it."
 The Barr amendment was voted
 down, 4-12.
 S.B. A, to appropriate $10,000 to refund to School Boards inter est they have paid on borrowed mcnel during the current school
 biennium, passed the Senate by a
 16-0 vote and goes to the House. Wage Collections 1 The afternoon session of the Sen- ate yesterday was devoted almost i entirely to a Committee of the Whole hearing on H.B. 8, the wage
 collection bill.
 Prior to the hearing on that measure, the Garnick-Munz bill to create facilities for women at the Alaska Pioneers Home was
 shelved again.
 The bill was sent back to the Territorial Institutions Committee to be compared with a House bill on the same subject.
 q think the House has a better bill because it provides for sur- yey before any of the money is expended" Senator Lyng said.
 "If it is a better bill, it is the first one of that class that has
 come to us from the House" Sena-
 tor Collins remarked.
 Leonard Evans, Territorial Repre- sentative for the United States De-
 partment of Labor, and Attorney General Ralph Rivers appeared on
 the wage collection bill and ans
 wered questions of the Senators.
 Evans told them that the present law covering the subject is not
 working and requires strengthen ing.
 The bill was continued in second
 reading for further consideration