The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-03-17
 BUILDING
 REJECTED
House Turns Down S165,- 900 Additional for 0f-
 fite Building Here
By BOB DE ARMOND

A House bill, introduced by Rep Waino Hendrickson. to appropriate $165,000 to complete the Territorial office building in Juneau as orig finally planned, was killed by the indefinite postponement route yes- terday afternoon.
 The vote was 1911. Several prev ious attempts to table the indefinite ly postponed bill had failed, but yesterdays vote, coming shortly after the House had voted to table bill increasing the motor fuel tax, apparently killed the building appropriation for this session.
 The motor fuel tax increase, if adopted with certain amendments, would have placed an additional $4O0,000 or more in the General Fund.
 The $165,00O building appropria- tion would have made it possible to complete the office building as orig inally planned, with five stories completely finished
 Funds available, $600,000 from the Territory and $6O0,000 from the Federal Government, will provide for a four-story building.
 Deficit Shown
 Without the increased motor fuels tax, Rep. Glen Franklin warned the House members, the Territory is going to have deficit of around $2 ,500,000 for the next biennium. He cited the S18,319,000 general appropriations bill, $1,l50,000 in special appropriations, S2660,0OO in frozen" 1949 appropriations, and $1 ,274,00 in obligations, including the $6OO,00O appropriation for an office building and S674,000 for building at the University of Alaska. To this total of $23 ,403 ,000, the Ways and Means Committee chair man added a million dollars for civilian defense. Estimated revenues for the biennium, he said, are $18,- 900 OO0 and there is $2,000,000 cash on hand. He estimated the increased pack tax on canned salmon, if ap- proved, will reduce the total deficit to the $2,5OO,OO0 figure.
 ssMind Your Business" Receiving a sharply worded mes sage from the Senate to the effect that the upper body will neither re- ceiye nor act upon House bills until the House gets to work and passes some Senate bills, House members did not hesitate more than few 1 minutes before sending the Senate 8 message just as barbed. You tend to the business of the Senate ! and we'll tend to the affairs Of the House" the message concluded after , reciting some of the work the House has accomplished during the session | The House, by an 8-16 vote, re- 1 fused to receive Senate bill pro viding pay increases of from lO to 50 her cent for Territorial officials and employees. The bill was rejected after it was pointed out that pay raises were provided in the General Appropriations Bill.
 The House voted to concur 1T | Senate amendments to Rep. Barnes bill to provide for licensing of sports fishermen. Principle Senate amend ments set the effective date as July 1. 1851, and exempted all Indian Eskimos and Aleut residents from the provisions of the bill.
 Do Not Concur
 The House did not concur in sen ate amendments to H. B. AT, one ol {, the Welfare Department measures
 after Welfare Department Director
 Henry Harmon explained that tht
 changes would result in greater
 costs to the Territory The bill vii
 he turned over to conference com
 mittee for ironing out of House
 Senate differences.
 The House approved Senate bills
 enabling municipalities increase
 property tax levies to a maximum
 of 30 mills; requiring registration of aircraft and pilots and certaif inspections of emergency equipment 1 and allowing liquor establishments i to stay open on days when there
 are special municipal elections ex'
 cept in the town where the electior
 is being held.
 ( Other Senate bills passed by tht 1 House included two relating to is-
 suance of substitute birth certifi'
 cates and one permitting the is'
 suance of marriage licenses to girl'