The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-03-14
 TAxREpEAL
 BILL DEAD
By JIM HUTCHINSON

A bill to repeal the 1949 Alaska
 general property tax law died today without ever getting through the Senate door.
 The bill that had been killed, res
 cinded, resurrected and reconsider ed to earn the title of most voted on" bill of 1851 in the House, was
 rejected 10 to by the Senate. A two-thirds vote of the Senate
 would have been required to receive the bill. That meant II votes would
 have been required, and it only
 boiled six = Butrovich, Coble, Enge-
 breth, Engstrom, Lhamon and Sni- der. The two-thirds is necessary to
 suspend the rules for receipt of any thing but appropriations or reve- nue-raising measures from the
 other House after the 50th day.
 This is the Sand.
 The Senate had a number Of flurries during the morning. It voted IA to 2 to ask It. Gen. William Kepner, commanding gen. : eral of Alaska. to appear before the Senate on civilian defense needs
 and problems. The invitation was proposed by Sen. Frank Barr, who
 introduced the $1,100,000 civilian
 defense bill which has not yet been
 acted upon by either House. Barr said he was certain Kepner would come if invited. The votes against inviting him : were by Sens. Joe Coble and Heinle Snider. They contended his appear ance would be a lobbying move for 1 the civilian defense bill. Opposing the generals appearance I before the lawmakers, Snider de-
 clared: that's the way they do it in the old country"
 Senate FurOre A bill by Sen. Anita Garnick tc increase Territorial officials and employees salaries caused one Jrie1 , furore before it was delayed further
 by referral to the engrossment com-
 mittee It failed to poll the needed two thirds vote to suspend the rules
 and put it up for final vote. Sen. Elton Engstrom proposed an amendment to eliminate the follow ing lines:
 Deputy Labor
 Commissioner ...--.-........-.... S7,50O' Senator Garnick retorted hotly that Senator Engstrom is trying to take out his spite on my brother Ed Garnick is the deputy labor ] commissioner.
 The Senate voted 13 to for a
 bill by eight senators for S100,O00 aid for community health facilities ! (while the House was tabling sim liar measure for $40,000 this morn ing after having previously voted
 down one for $15000O. It also passed unanimously bill authorizing the micrfilming of Ter ritorial Health Department vital statistics records. It has a $16,400 appropriation.
 Some Clashes The discussion over the health facilities aid measure brought some
 clashes over the Territory's financial status.
 Sen. Gunnard Engebreth, one of the eight sponsors, started off with the comment:
 These facilities are so sorely needed in the isolated spots in the
 Territory I don't see how anyone could be against it."
 Sen. Howard Lyng noted that
 the House already had killed such
 measure, and added: T think it IS
 bad practice to introduce bill in
 one House when it already has been
 beaten in the other" Sen. John Butrovich declared:
 T just don't believe in writing
 any more bum checks. voted for
 a $200000 appropriation last session flor hospital aid, but we've got to face hard financial facts" The money, he insisted. just isn't there. He cited the commissioners of ficial estimate, before the session, of
 anticipated revenue of $18,000, ,000 for the general fund He noted that