The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1951-03-03
HOUSE WANTS.
Lobbyists TO.
TAKE PLEDGE.


situations unable to fly to Sitka
Yesterday because of weather, the
House buckled down to work and
in a four and -haif-hour after
noon session cleared five bills and
three memorials from its crowded
calendar.
Another biil-H. B. &c, amending
the law on lobbying-was returned
by the Governors office because
of technical defects and was again
started through the House mill
!. this time as H. B. 104.
On its second trip, however, the
bill picked up several amendments
that were not even proposed on
che first hearing.
Rep. George Miscovich offered
the first amendment, to provide
that every lobbyist registering with
: the Auditor of Alaska shall take
the Communist oath and that
the oath shall be filed in the Aud
itor's office.
Rep. Kay opposed the amend
ment on the grounds that 1t would
prohibit communists from lobby
ing. 81 believe we should give ev-
eryone an opportunity to be heard"
Kay said and suggested that 1t
might be better to require state
ment from each lobbyist as to his
or her membership in the Com
munist Party or other Communls-
tic organization.
st don't believe a Communist
ought to be allowed to lobby" re-
torted Miscovich. Il want to keep
Joe Stain from having direct
representation here
Adopted 1873
The Miscovich amendment was
adopted by 1873 vote, with Carl
son. Copyright, Hope, Kay, McCut-
cheon. Metcalfe, Scavenius and
Wells voting in the negative.
Rep. Kay then offered an
? amendment to prohibit lobbying by
any member of a Communist, F'a-
cist or other subversive organlza-
ton which is SO classified by the
Attorney General of the United
States.
This amendment was adopted
23-1. Rep. Laws voting against the
adoption.
Rep. McCutcheon offered the
third of the three amendments
adopted by the House-to require
lobbyists to state their political
affiliations when registering.
81 do not think this is a wise
amendment" said Rep. Frank
Johnson. ct is no longer necessary
to state party affiliations when
registering for Primary Elections,
and the people expressed them
selves as opposed to such declara-
lions when they voted for the
: Blanket Primary"
McCutcheon's amendment went
into the bill on a 1911 vote and the
bill was continued in second read
ing until mimeographed copies are
prepared.
Measures Passed
The House passed the following
bills and memorials during the af-
ternoon session:
Giving certain police powers to
civilian defense officials and per-
? sonnet; seeking a highway link be-
tween Juneau and other South
east Alaska points and the Alaska
Highway; seeking road from Cor
doya to the Katalla- Yakataga area;
urging that the Fish and Wildlife
Service be required to conform with
the Federal Administrative Pro-
cedures Act
Also passed were bill to ex-
tend exemptions for new business
ses under the Alaska Property Tax
to maximum of five years; to
admit microfilm and other photog-
raphically reproduced records as
evidence, and to amend the law
relating to chattel mortgages on
merchandise stocks.
H. B. 70, to validate chattel
MORTGAGES with cooperative associ-
ations. was laid on the table.
House Bill II, defining. the term
resident" in the law pertaining to
petitions for liquor licenses outside
of incorporated towns, was deoa-
ted at length, amended, killed on
a 12-11 vote and revived for an
other chance when Rep. Pollard
gave notice of his intention to re-
consider his vote.
Many Bills In
A flock of new bills dropped into
the House hopper yesterday, IN
Guiding a comprehensive, 63-page,
banking bill, a bill to extend the
time for filing renewal affidavits
of chattel mortgages, bill to pro-