SENATE REPORT
NOT FAVORABLE
LITERACY BILL
Brown, Snodgrass, Aldrich
Bring in Adverse Report
on Contested Bill.
That the supporters of the Foster
illiteracy Test bill, passed last week
by the House, will have an uphill
right in the Senate, was Indicated
today whon the Senate Committee on
Rules. Elections and Election Laws
brought it in with a recommenda
tion that it do not pass. The com
mittee's report was unanimous and
was signed by Brown, chairman;
Snodgrass, and Aldrich.
The fate of the measure will very
probably be determined tomorrow
when it goos on second reading The
Senate is said to be evenly split .on
passage of the measure with both
sides maintaining their lines solidly
Hr. Shwpard, who championed the
measure in the House and who wrote
tho minority report recommending
its passage, which was adopted by
the House, exprossed surprise at the
'opposition of Senator Aldrich, who.
be said, fcUlowittg (he primary elec
tion last April, had been strong in
his condemnation of the mass voting
of illiterate Indians and In his con
tentlon that the condition permitting
such voting should be remodi I
Discuss Two Bills
Two other measures are slated for
general dlscuss-ion hv the Senate in
Committee of the Whole tomorrow.
Senate Bill No. 5, the so-called fish
ermen’s lien law. was brought back
Into the Senate this morning by the
Committee on Fish. Game and Agri
culture without any agreement be
ing reached on it. Senate Bill No.
*77, the so-callled herd law. prohibit
ilng livestock from running at large,
was in like condition. Bolli were re
ported with the recommendation that
they be ronsiderod in Committee of
the Whole.
New Bill Introduced
Senate Bill No- 85, by Mr. Dimond,
a bill for An Act to provide for the
time of filing of affidavits of annual
labor on mining claims and r -pc ii
ing former acts, was -introduced this
morning. It provides for such tiling
within 90 days after the close of th >
yearly period during which such
labor now Is, or hereafter may be
required to be done by law. The
presont law requires these affidavits
to be filed within 90 days after the
end cf the calendar yeir while the
period for doing the work has been
changed from the calendar year to
'between July 1, to Juno 30, suc
ceeding.
Senator Chamberlin's memorial
asking that the time for convening
the Legislature he changed from the
first Monday in March to the first
Monday in February biennially, was
reported favorably. The Senate eon
cur red in 'House amendments to Sen
ate Bill 34, relative to nuking non
support ground for filing of divoree
actions.
SOMMERS HEADS
ROAD WORK IN
NOME DISTRICT
To Superintend All Roads
and Rivers and Harbors
Work This Summer.
R. J. Sommers will superintend
the work of the Alaska Road Com
mission and the Board of Rivers
and Harbors Enginer* on Seward
Peninsula this Beeson, according; to
a statement made today by Col.
John C. GotwaJs. Mr. Sommers will
leave for Nome early tills summer.
He will be in charge of the river
and harbor work, the improvement
•of 'the Nome-Shelton railroad, and
all road work. The naming of Mr.
Sommers as superintendent in the
Soward Peninsula district is on ac
count of the effort being made to
get the railroad in good dhape this
season and to complete the harbor
work. Col. Gotwals said
The dredges installed on Little
Creek necessitate improving the
roads leading from Nome to Little
Creek, and this work will be car
ried on during the season.
Mr. Sommers was formerly with
the Alaska Road Commission at
Nome and at Fairbanks.' where he
had charge of tho road work on the
Richardson Highway.
William Leonard Smith, now
working on the Nizlna bridge pro
ject, will leave McCarthy about
■April 1, for Nome, to inspect the
'fivers and harbors work at that
place. Col. Gotwals said. It is the
present plan, Jo dredge the harbor
(before navigation opens and Mr.
gnrfth will supervise this work.
Dredging will start about May 15
and should 'be completed by June
16. when navigation opens
The plan 6t dredging the harbor
«e early In the season as May is be
paufee of the usual fine weather in
that time, the storms occurring
after navigation opens. Col. Got
tis said the completion of the
dredging toy June 15 will be a bL
aid In the navigation of small boats
and lighters from the steamers, t<
the shore.
Woman Presides Over Penn
sylvania Assembly.
Alice Dervllia/
For the first time in too tus
tory of tho State a woman has
presided over the deliberations of
the Penmylvanla Assembly, in
Harrisburg. She is Miss Ali ■ ■
Bentley, Assemblywoman from
MeadvHle. and she handled the
business of the session with order
and dispatch.
HEAVY SALMON
RUN PROBABLE
THIS SEASON
Capt Ahues Anticipates Run
in This District—Says Sea
son Determine Icy Straits.
A heavy run in this district during
the sailmon season this year is anti
elputed by ('apt. C. K. Ahues. super
intendent of tho Libby, McNeil &
Libby cannery at Taku Harbor, ac
cording t > a statement, made by him
today. Captain Ahues arrived here
Mill? m'urning from the cannery on
tho tender Excursion, on his first trip
to Juneau this scatton, having ar
rived a: Taku Harbor early this week
from Seattle. This year will be his
24th season in the fishing business
■In Alaska.
i Captain Ahues said he supported
his expectancy that this district will
have a heavy salmon run as based
on occurrence of runs in previous
seasons.
The run was heavy in l!t 16-17-18
and began to fall away in 1919, be
ing only normal in 1920-21-22. while
during those four seasons the run
was heavy in tho Ketchikan district.
Ho -sodd ho believes the run in the
Ketchikan district will be only nor
mal.
Future Icy Straits
The run this year in the Icy
Straits district will determine the
future of that diistrict as « salmon
fliditng ground, Captain Ahues said,
if the run is small he believes it will
! bo an indication that tho salmon
have been depleted there and that
the only future success of the in
dustry must come through measures
taken for tho protection of the fish,
■i do., d period or re erve being most
logical
Libby. McNeil & Libby will operate
nil its canneries in Alaska except
two in Bering Sea. where a short
run is expected this season. These
two canneries were operated last
year.
Crew at Taku
A crew of 7b men are now at work
at the Taku Harbor cannery, get
ing the plant in readiness for the
season's opt rations. Pile-drivers will
be taken out April 1 to drive piles
for tho traps. The entire crew will
be at the cannery by April 10, when
GO Chinamen will be brought from
tile South. About April 15 work
will start on making '-.mis. I'110 com
pany baa prepared to make 80.000
cases or can a for this season. Captain
Ahues said.
Captain Ahues left Junoait at 3
o'clock tills afternoon for the can
nery.
BOB TURNERS' AUTO SERVICE.
Phone 257. Kew 7 passenger
Studebuker car. Comfort and safety
Stand next to Boston Store. —adv.
ALASKA MEAT COMPANY
Wholesale and RetaO Batchers
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Foreign and Domestic Woolens in Stock. .
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MERCHANT TAIIOR
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HOUSE MEMORIAL
ON GAME SEEKS
LOCAL CONTROL
foster Introduced Memorial
Opposing Nelson Game
Bill in Congress.
i
Opposition to tile Nelson gam •
Litl, prepared by Dr. E. W. Nelson,
blot olf the Bureau of BiologicjI
, Survey, and introduced in the last
i Congress, is expressed in House Joint
Memorial No. 11. Introduced this
nornlng by Representative Foster,
.s' Cordova, it also asks that th ■
Organic Act be amended so as to
! empower the Alaska Legislature to
mike and administer girne laws for
| the Territory.
The memorial declares:
"Whereas, the people of the Ter
ritory of Alaska are forbidden by
he terms of the Organic Act from In
•.ay manner legislating with regard
10 the game laws of the Territory;
ird
"Whereas, the game laws of the
Pi 'l it: ry are wholly inadequate to
properly prelect ..nil care for the
g.vm? situation in the Territory; and
"Whereas, we are unalterably op
posed to legislation by Departments
tnd Bureaus to the exclusion of the
voice of tho people of tihe Territory;
and
“Whereas, H. R. 1214k. commonly [
known as the Nelson Game Bill, has
boon introduced in Congress, by the.
terms of which Act lit is proposed to i
delegate to the Secret,up of Agrtcul-1
Lire, the duty of making game regie!
! itions having tho force and effect
! of law, the violation of which is pun
ishable by fine and imprisonment;
■ and
“Whereas, tho effect of said X 1
, on Game Bill would be to place In!
| tho hands of tiho power having the;
; d-rongost influence, the control of1
I the Game Laws of Alaska which said
'Influence would in our opinion be the'
voice of t.h? big game hunters of the:
astern part of the United States;
and
"Whereas, the people of Alaska are
i: i hunters of game for sport or for
j tho thrill obtained from killing some
■v'd animal, but depend on fhe game
of Alaska for the means of sua
aiiting life while in the hills;
"Now there fore, we. the Legislature
I of the Territory of Alaska, do heart
1 ily condemn the oaid Nelson Game
IB1H and do ask that the same be
' defeated in Congress; and
! “Wo further ask that the Congress j
(f tho United Sta’es do change the
■Organic Act of the Territory of Ai l
j a ska to the end that the people of
! Alaska by their duly elected Legis
jhi'we. be empowered to make and
I administer their own game laws."
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MERRITT AND SUMMERS
FILE FOR SCHOOL BOARD
.M. L. Merritt, .Assistant District
Forester for Alaska, and M. B. Sum
mers, Meteorologist for Alaska, 1 to
day filed as candidates for the School
Board, at the City Clerk's office, the
former filling for itho three-year term
and the latter tor the one-vear term.
Both men are prominent citizens of;
Juneau. Mr. Summers has been a
resident here since 1917 and Mr. Mer
ritt has resided bore the past two
years.
Old bundles of newspapers at tli»
Empire. 26 centa.
BEEF, WINE
AND IRON
is the best Spring Tonic
Iron performs a very import
ant office in tne human body.
It improve* the quality of the
blood, the tissues are better
nourished and all functions are
performed with more vigor.
The combinaton of Beef, Iron
1 and Wine also promotes appetite
and invigorates and stimulates
the digestion and thus acts as the
very best stomach tonic.
BRITT’S PHARMACY
The Rexall Store
PHONE 25 ■
Taxi Driver Discovers
Honesty Pays.
p$/VttvaL.m <3". Elroffuei^s?,
William J. Brothers, of South
Boston, a taxi driver, won a kits
from Mrs. Henry Weston, of New
ark, New Jersey, and $100 in cash
from her husband when lie found
and returned $4,000 In cash and
$10,000 in bonds that had been
dropped in liis cab.
TWO STEAMERS
ON WAY NORTH
SEATTLE, March, 28. The steamer
Northwestern sullad at 0 o'clock this
morning for Southeastern and South
western Ala kan pofri with $95 pas
sengers aboard, including the fol
lowing for Juneau: F. H. Knicker
bocker. Mrs. H. -F. Kimble and child.
James Toby and eight steerage.
Steamer Queen sailed at 9 o’clock
with 230 passengers, the complete
list of Juneau paaeeng' ra being : (1.
B. Rat son and wife. W S. Jensley,
J. H. Kiel, R. E. I)ix:>n. L. Wer
nocko, George Bolgji;p, E. Ycrber, Rob
ert Simpson, F. L. Razon and wife,
Elmer Allen, F. Peterson and one
stocrago.
LEOPOLD DAVID IS
NOMINATED MEMBER
OF COLLEGE BOARD
Gov. Scot: C. Bone today sent to
tho Territorial Senate th? nomination
of Leopold David, ef Anchorage, to
be a member of Tie .Board of Regents
of the Agricultural College and School
rf Mines, at Fairbanks, succeeding
A. .) Nerd ■!(), resigned.
(Leopold David is a pioneer of An
ehoruge, having coma to Alaska from
Oregon. During his rosldence In An
chorage, David ha3 been United
States Ccmmis.1 loner and Mayor, and
is now senior member of the law firm
of David & Ray, his associate being
former Territorial Senator L. V. Ray,
of Seward.
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NEW ROAD BILL
IS INTRODUCED
BY REP. WILSON
Seek to Wipe Out Co-opera
tive Systems and Set Up
Independent Body.
Designed to wipe out Mie present
cooperative system of road building:
now in force between the Territory j
and Federal road construction agen I
ciets, House Bill No. 21, providing for j
a complete organization and Inde
pendent system af construction, was j
introduced this morning by Repre-i
sen tat i ve Wilson, of Nome. There i
is no provision of any kind In the
measure for cooperative work.
The author of the measure, com-;
monting on it today, said:
“The road bill introduced by me
proposes to restore the system of I
1917-19 under which the Territorial !
road funds were expended directly j
by elected road commissioners, one,
in each Division. The present so- J
called cooperative road act under
which Territorial road appropriations
are turned over to Federal agencies:
to be expended by them is not giving
much satisfaction in the Second Divi-!
sion. It is the opinion there that!
money raised in the Territory should ;
be handled by elected local men fa - J
iriitiar with local conditions, and di
rectly irosjtonstble to the people anl
roiponsive t'o their wishes.
Terms of Bill
The bill provides for a central or
Territorial Board which shall he the
Territorial Board of Control, provid
ing that body is (rested by the pres
ent Legislature, or the present Terri
torial Commission composed of the
Governor, Secretary and Treasurer
should the Territorial Executive De
partment reorganization bill fail c.
passage. This board is given limited
powers, being charged with disburse
ment or Territorial road appropria
tions, or any Federal moneys ac-1
eruing for road work, to the Division
al boards established by the pro
posed law It would receive reports
from tlhe latter boards and make I
biennial reports to the Legislature. ,
Four Divisional boards are sought,
to he created, one in each judicial
district composed of an elective com
nvis;'oner in each, and commission-!
ers in each recording district ap-,
pointed by the electivo member of:
the Division. The salary of the lat-j
‘er is placed at C per cent of the
air,bunt expended but not exceed!
$2,:><M) per annum. Assistant commis
sioners draw no salaries, but are to j
be allowed living and traveling ex j
ponses on trips made on official busi- j
nees. The elected commissioner is
responsible for expenditure of a 1!
funds in his Division and tile con-1
sir action and maintenance of all Ter-i
ritorial road projects. Two-year
terms of office are provided for be j
ginning March 1, 192a, the commis
sioners elected last November being,
: allowed to serve until that time.
The House this morning passed I
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Women Can Express
Their Views
Tomorrow Afternoon
Tomorrow afternoon at 3
] o'clock, the judiciary committee
of the House of Representatives,
Territorial Legislature, will hold
a mooting at which all women
interested in the compulsory
jury duty measure are requested
to attend. It is understood a
committee of the Woman's Club
will appear tomorrow afternoon.
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one Senate and one House bill; two
,,ou;-e bills on second reading, and
lout Senate measures, and recom
mitted one Senate bill to committee.
Senate Bill No. 8. dedicating four
,ods along each section line for high
way purposes, and House Bill No. 30,
amending section 1,558, Compiled
Laws of Alaska, were passed by a
unanimous vote.
House Bill No. 16, providing for
covc.ing certain fees into the Terri
turici Treasury; No. 16. providing
for a tee to be collected by the Sec
retary of the Territory for issuing
cert.scales with seal of the Terri
tory .tffixed; Senate Bills No. 56,
amending chapter 75, Alaska Session
Law of 1915; No. 47. denouncing
false pretense in soliciting money
for associations or organizations; No.
31. amending section 2,075, Compiled
jaw.:, of Alaska, relative to computa
tion of sentence for criminal offense,
and No. 17. repealing section 500,
Compiled Laws of Alaska. passed
their second readings.
Senate Bill No. 48. to define and
punish embezzlement, adversely re
ported by the Judiciary Committee,
was sent back to that committee for
amendment, or redrafting
Hearings on Industrial Act
Public hearings are planned for the
Industrial Insurance bill introduced
10 days ago by Representatives Deck
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lor and Wilson. The Committee-on
iLabor bad bcen; working ou ^the
measure, said Mr. Wilson, and will
be ready to announce its hearings in
the near future. Copies of the bill,'
he said, have been mailed out to vir
tually all interested parties who will
be given an opportunity to appear
and oe heard before the committee s
report is submitted to the House.
STEEL CYLINDERS
FOR NIZ1NA BRIDGE
COMPLETE IN PLACE
i
' The fir3t tw-o steel cylinders for
the Ntaina bridge, sunk in the river
bed for piers, were complete in place
March 25 last, according to tele
graphic advices received today by
Col. John C. Gotwals. Tho cylinders
each measure nine feet in diameter
and are 30 feet high. The placing
of the cylinders is a feat of especial
I merit, entadling skillfui engineering
and considerable labor. Colonel Got
wals said. It wa3 necossary to con
struct special rigging driving the
cylinders.
Colonel Got wain oxpocts to make a
trip of inspection af work now being
done on the bridge, on his next trip
to the Westward, 'leaving here Sat*
urday on the steamer Northwestern.
NOTICE.
The Three Links Social Chib has
i postponed the party planned tor
j Wednesday, March 28th, to Tuos
: day, April 3rd. —atlv/
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Bar Pins
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Bracelets
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both ladies and men.
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