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gust 29th, 1923, at the postotfice at
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March 3, 1879.
WHAT RECENT LEGISLA
TURE ACCOMPLISHED AN D ^ - ■
WHAT IT DID NOT DO
(By Mildred R. Hermann, Legislative
Clerk of Alaska Federation of
Women’s Clubs, reprinted from
the Alaska Press, Juneau.)
And now that the tumult and shoutT
ing has died and we have 'been told
editorially and otherwise whata whiz
editorially and otherwise what a whale
ture at this s'ession, and what wisdom
and vision—or what have you—they
have shown in the exercise of their
legislative powers, it seems to be in
dicated that some one should present
a summary of just what the Legisla
ture really accomplished and what it
did not do. And this we shaU try
to do.
It passed, we admit, some 127 laws.
Of tjiese, 84 originated in the Senate,
43 in the House. A goodly number of
resolutions and memorials also pass
ed, some of them of unquestioned
merit, though it is exceedingly doubt
ful if Congress or anyone else to
whom they were addressed will ever
take much notice of them. It will
be an innovation certainly if it hap
pens otherwise. Among the bills
passed were about 43 which repealed
certain laws that have become obso
lete or inapplicable through changing
conditions wit hip and without Ttbe
Territory. They had become just
dead' timber, that encupibered the
statute books, though they ’were
doinj* no particular harjn. ^ Their re
peal was merely routing, work, which
followed naturally in, the.of the
codification of the Sess^n^ Laws of
Alaska, which has been carried out
since the termination of the 19^1 ses
sion, under the direction of Henry
Roden. Mr. Roden suggested many
of the repeals, wrote most of
the bills himself. They were passed
without comment, and their passage
was no tribute to the wisdom of anv
man, unless it was Mr. Roden.
It, passed a large number of billgof
minor or no importance. The really
important bills which it passed were
were,really very' few indeed. Among
them was the bill repealing the AlasI
ka Bone Dry Law. And it might be
noted here that the.authorities - in
charge of the eniorq/ament of. law
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within the Territory have so far paid
no ottention whatever to this so
called repeal and are still arresting;
convicting, and sentencing persons
charged with the violation of the law
The passage of the celebrated beei
bill, which occupied w/soks of the leg
islators’ time, to the exclusion of, and
in some cages to the neglect of other
important legislation, followed natur
ally after the enactment of Congres
sional legislation along .this line,
which included Alaska. in its pr.'vi
sions. It was a really adequate law,
conceivably, though what it failed .to
pveet one condition at least, was indi
cated by thg frantic haste with which
the legislators themselves move! to
amend it a'most, oef.ore th» printer’s
ink with which it, had be_n printed
had becojne dry. It is, worthy of men
tion in this connection* too, that.-the
very amendment they, sought so un
successfully during the last: d--y. of
the session was one whigh hgd again
and again been- defeated on the door
cf the House duping the original con
sideration of the bill. -
It passed the Shattuek.educa$ianai
bill which created an appointive board
of education *itlj ppwer. to appoint
the commissioner of. education and to
regulate ^eacher^’. sal irios. To- sup
plement ^this bill, the Legislature pass
ed a later bill dednintg the powers of
the board- edinjayon, which were
made practjicidly rdicil^orialr particu
larly as they appy to*schools outside
incorporated cities.'
It passed a bill creating a Pioneers’
home commission to have charge of
the building of a newr Pioneers’ Home,
and set aside for that purpose the
money already appropriated to the
building fund by previous sessions of
the Legis.ature. It repealed the
teachers’ pension lgw. It passed a bill
'making contributing to the delin
quency of a minor a felony instead
of, a misdemeanor; it passed a law
raising the, allotment given as moth
ers’ pensiqpg; it passed House Bill
bin 113. *" * ‘
ing approximately for $400,000 more
than the highest estimated income for
the biennium, and that in the face of
the fact that there is little likelihood
of anything- like the highest estimated
income being actually available dur
ing the next two years. It passed a
resolution asking Congress not to cut
salaries in Alaska until it had inves
tigated living conditions, and then on
its own accord made a summary slash
of 10 per cent on salaries of all Ter
ritorial employes, doing even a bit
Worse by the Territorial stenograph
ers and cutting them 15 per cent.
Such in brief is a true synopsis of
the legislation that passed both
houses oftl-e Legislature at the 11th
session,, shorn, it is true, of a large
number of'unimportant and trivial
measures. However, it is when we
come to a ?onv.deration of the bills
that did NOT pass—a feature of the
Legislatunc's work that so far has not
been summariz.Kl at all by-any news
paper—that we find the real story of
the Legislature, and those who are
skilled at reading between the 1 nes
of the House Journals, may write
their own heads, for this.
-No more significant statement was
made during the entire legislative ses
sion thy, jbqt made hy Mr. Nerland,
veteran tnepiber from the Fourth di
vision. when he rose in the House to
decry they failure e.iths bill raising
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the allotment allowed for mothers’
pension?.
any legislation comes up that is in
tended to protect the defenseless and
helpless of the Territory .that thi»
Legislature takes pleasure in killing
it. And whe^n we have measures for
consideration that. affect those who
have money enough to pay their way
to Juneau, or to hire lawyers to help
them evade taxation you aryglad to
| pass what they wish.” It is further
| significant that, following Mr. Ner
land’s statement, one of the members
1 who had voted against the measure,
I moved for a reconsideration of his
; vote and this biil was subsequently
saved.
However, it was only ope* of two
measures of that nature that did not
| fall before the ax in one or the other
1 house. For, if there is any ouistand
■ ing attribute of the 11th session of
the Alaska Legislature it is that it
was absolutely, entirely, completely
and unequivocaly against legislation
that was of a protective nature. A
summary of the bills that failed to<
pass should demonstrate this fact to
any person who wishes to face the
facts as they actually exist.
The Legislature defeated two ef
forts to amend the workman’s com
pensation act in such. fashion as
would make it unnecessary for em
ployes to discriminate against Amer
ican. citizens as. a matter of business
policy. 0ne of these originated in
the House, and was lost there by a
vote of 9-7; the other originated in
the Senate and was lost hy a vote of
8-0. A bill that would, have declared
a two-year moratorium on mortgages
wa salso lost
The community property bill, de
signed to protect the rights of the
wife in property acquired after mar
riage, was killed by indefinite post
ponement. Two hills which', would
have given illegitimate children inr
heritance rights in. the estates of their
fathers, a part of the legislative pro
gram sponsored by tha American Le
gio ncbild welfare committee, one of
these being a. uniform statute that
has been passed by practically every
State in the Union, were aso ilndefi
nitey postponed. Shattuck’s bill that
that would have created a tax com
mission to revise our present tax laws
which came into being hefore. the
spectacular stock-market crash, was
lost somewhere in the shuffle. Two
bills by McCutcheon that were de
signed to .reform the probate code of
the Territory in such manner as
would prevent, the looting of estates
(Continued on Page 3.)
WHY PEOPLB. SMILH.
Experience Speaks.
Father—Why won’t you marry
Fritz?
Daughter—I will only marry a man<
who knows life and its sorrows.
Father—I see; you want a wid
ower.—Illustrierte (Berlin).
Soft Answer.
“Do you prefer balloon tires, or the
other sort?”
“Balloon tires.” '
“What sort of a car have youT”
“I haven’t h car—I am a ptxfes
trian.”—Lustig Kolner Zeitung. (Co
logne).
Cynical Yonngster.
“Yes, my boy, the whole creation
was made in seven days.”
“Well, it looks it.”—SimpHdisisai
mus (Munich)..
Fast Thinking;
Old Lady (in restaurant);—II see
that tips are .forbidden here .
Waiter—Lor* bless you,, mum,, so
was the apples in the Gardkmof fEden.
—Smith’s Weekly (Sydney)^
Smith—It must be met a
car.
Miller—I know it
I’ve never enjoyed it. Either tbs ear
*s being repaired, or else I am.—Die
VVWoche im BUd._
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