and went the Senate one better by
voting to boost the attorney general
36 per cent.
The bill raises salaries of most
elective and administrative offi
cials from $6,600 to $7,500 or
$8,000.
The House overrode a commit
tee recommendation and boosted
the attorney general to $9,000 by a
13-11 vote, but rebuffed by a two
vote margin an attempt to raise
the education commissioner to the
same figure.
The measure now returns to the
Senate.
The department of aviation un
der the aeronautics and commun
ications commission with author
ity to accept federal funds for out
lying airfields. It carries a $50,000
appropriation.
The House also passed a Senate
approved pure food and drugs act.
A ruling by Democratic speaker
Stanley McCutcheon killed five
Republican. Senators’ bill aimed at
the Republican party leadership
of Albert White. Then Mrs. Doris
' M. Barnes, Republican, moved to
take the bill from the table.
McCutcheon hastily called a
Democratic caucus behind closed
doors. After the caucus, McCut
cheon ruled the bill couldn’t be
considered without a suspension
of rules, because only appropria
tions or revenue bill could be con
sidered since the Sunday deadline.
£ Wires were received from both
Republican and Democratic lead
ers in Washington, D. C., last
week in support of the bill but au
thoritative Democratic sour c e s
said national Democratic leaders
have reported they misunderstood
the bill and are not endorsing the
measure, was designed to mend
Republican factionalism.
It would require advance ad
vertising of all party conventions.
One faction of Republicans accuse
White of holding the whip hand
by calling offhand meetings. Wh>ite
ran a newspaper advertisement
today addressed to Sen. E. B. Col
lins, Republican, denying any
“cellar” or “warehouse” meetings
and contending they had been
held with advance notices. White
signed it as “Whipping Boy of the
Republican Party.”
Th£ House passed a Senate-ap
proved bill yesterday establishing
an Alaska National Guard with
emphasis on Eskimo units along
the Bering Coast; the vote was 20
4. The bill returns to the Senate
for action on a House amendment
cutting the appropriations from
$90,000 to $75,000.
Governor Gruening signed bills
creating a Territorial department
of fisheries, requiring employers
to provide for return trips for
(workers recruited within or with
out the Territory, and granting a
loan of $1,200,000 to the Territori
al veterans’ revolving fund and
the child labor law.
i The Senate approved 14-1 a me
morial commending the Univers
ity of Washington president and
board of regents for dismissing
three faculty members after a leg
islative un-American activities
committee hearing.
The Senate passed the amended
income tax bill, 14-2. Action is
hanging on an amendment.
Rep. Glen D. Franklin, Demo
crat lost by a 10-14 vote an at
tempt to send a House request to
I the governor to rescind immedi
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ately his call for a special exten
sion session. Franklin said: “We
are in a better position than ever
before.”
Keating disputed the assertion,
saying the general appropriations
stilh is unapproved by the Senate
and should retain the special call
as “insurance” in case the job is
unfinished Friday morning. Most
legislators predict the extra time
won't be needed.
The governor also signed into
law a bill calling for increases in
fishermen’s licenses, and another
calling for a $300 increase in year
ly salaries for teachers.
Passage of the guard bill came
after almost complete withdrawal
of expected floor opposition. Rep.
Percy Ipalook, Eskimo missionary
from the Bering Coast, said in
support of the Guard bill, that the
Russians, who held 17 Eskimos on
Big Diomede Island last summer
for seven weeks, asked them how
they would like to have Russian
administration over them.
Ipalook tol da reporter that the
report was general among Eski
mos after their return to Little
Diomede Island, but he had not
talked to any personally.
Ipalook made the statement to
the newsmen after having ‘old the
House:
“I was going to tell you what
; the Russians said to our Eskimos,
but since there is little opposition
now to the bill I won’t say it
here.”
The bill was a Senate judiciary
substitute for an original House
bill by Rep. Amelia Gundersen,
| and legislative procedure on it
had been challenged sharply by
opponents. Hint of a further possi
ble challenge came from Rep.
Doris Barnes, who asked the
speaker before the vote: “Does my
vote for it affect my right to con
test its legality?”
She said later she had no inten
tion of doing so personally, but
others might.
The Senate voted yesterday to
ask the House to restore to the
hospital reimbursement bill the
$2,500 for Maynard hospital for
emergency or indigent cases. The
House had eliminated it because
the public welfare department did
not approve the claims. Senator
McCutcheon argued that numer
ous cases couldn’t wait for unfold
ing official red tape and Sen.
Munz agrees, telling Senators he
had flown many of such cases to
hospital and such should be pay
able by the Territory.
Congress Diffident
Over Truman’s
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doubt, and so is a plan to boost
taxes.
First big test of the let’s-be
friends policy will come on rent
controls. The present law expires
March 31, just eight days from to
day. Speed is vital.
The House has approved a rent
bill that falls far short of what the
President wants.
A bill now before the Senate
also slashes into many of his re
quests. Passage by tomorrow night
, was predicted in the upper house.
I Dixie lawmakers and party
leaders who fought them in the
• filibuster have united to push
a bill which would continue con
trols 12 to 15 months, authorize
| some rent increases, pave the way
for decontrol.
. Majority leader Lucas of Illinois
called the measure a compromise
but said he considered it a “very
. good bill.”
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“We turned to bingo and that
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over.”
; The seven bought a jeep for
$2,000. This went up as a raffle
prize on Feb. 28, and was awarded
March 11. Brown said the raffle
netted $3,000. They left Anchor
age March 12.
There was no change in the
tournament standings Monday.
—
George Hellerich, for many
years engineer for the U. S. Smelt
ing Co., here and more lately as
sociated with Bartholomae Mines
near Teller, has been named su
perintendent of the Gold Beach
Dredging Co., here for the coming
season. The announcement has
been made by Walter Johnson,
I president of the company.
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