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New Laws Enacted
By the Legislature
Ono by one the bills vitally con
cerning the business of Alaska were
taken up and passed before the Sec
ond Legislative Assembly ceased Its
labors last Friday. A threatened
filibuster to force through the House
the revenue bill providing a direct
property tax failed to materialize, the
license bill, which is expected to yield
$600,000 in revenue, in the two years
until the Third Session, was put on
final pasage and ratified. The appro
priation bill, carrying items aggregat
ing $160,000 passed both houses of the
Legislature after the hardest kind of
a fight. The uniform school bill,
which came within an ace of defeat,
went through with colors flying and
the) Driscoll bill providing for the
election of an attorney general in 1916
and the House resolution empowering
the Governor to appoint legal counsel
for the Territory until that time, was
passed. The House defeated the poll
tax bill and the law on the statute
books, providing for the collection of
a $4 head tax is still in force. Only
a few measures died with the session,
among them the Hubbard bill for the
organization of trust companies and
,the Tanner and Shoup fisheries mem
morial to Congress.
The license revenue bill passed is
not unlike that passed by the First
Legislature as that session's revenue
measure. The committee lowered
the 1913 fish tax schedule from 7 cents
on reds and sockeyes, to 4 cents, and
a levy of 1 per cent, on the gross in
stead of 1 per cent on the net receipts
of electric light companies, laundries,
and other business was made. No
provision was made for the licensing
of the big Industries in the Second
ana rourtn divisions, including dredg
ers and lighterage companies. The
Second division was firmly against the
taxation of those industries. The bill
as it stands is declared to be stricly
legal, and collection of $300,000 in
taxes that it is expected to produce
annually, will not be difficult, it Is be
lieved. The legal counsel provision
will take care of the enforcement ol
the tax collection.
The compensation act passe 1 tie
legislature and was lsgned by the gov
ernor early in the evening. The sen
ute refused to concur with the house
amendment eliminating placer claims
and the house receded.
Uniform system of schools was an
other stumbling block delaying ad
journment of the legislature. Aftei
many conferences between committees
of the house and senate, a measure
, was passed giving the territory a
board and superintendent appointed
by the governor for four years, when
his office becomes elective.
Some of the New Laws
Workman’s compensation act.
A ballot law and a corrupt prac
tices act.
A law providing a bounty of $1U
pn wolves.
A uniform Bchool law.
A law reducing Indian liquor sell
I ing to a misdemeanor and making
the Indian solicitor an accomplice.
A general mining law.
A law providing for the assessment
of unpatented claims.
An 8-hour day law for placers.
(Quartz passed in 1913.)
Acts referring to people the liquor
and general 8-hour questions.
A new mine inspection act.
Five new banking bills.
Twelve acts correcting defects in
the statutes of 1913.
An act pensioning aged and Indi
gent prospectors.
An net severely traffickers In wom
en.
Acts revising the laws of municipal
elections and taxes.
An elective attorney general act.
An act establishing the political
status of Indians.
An act providing local government
in certain Indian villages.
An act preventing professional Ju
l
j rors.
An act compelling travelers to reg
Ister at roadhouBes.
An act to provide for incorporation
I of second class cities.
| A restaurant food Inspection act.
Memorial asking Congress to re
; move limitations on Legislature, par
j ticuiarly in regard to “Alaska Fund,”
fish, fur, etc.
Memorial asking for a full form of
teritorial government, for postal sav-'
ing banks, for equitable parcels post
rates, and for wireless stations In
various parts of the interior and the
North.
items or txpense Heduced
The senate applied the lining
j hook to the "budget” for territorial
j expenses, as followa
Appropriation of $6,000 for new
j building Pioneers’ Home stricken out.
Clerk hire for Ploners’Home strick
en out.
Clerk hire for Governor (territor
ial) cut from $5,050 to $4,000.
Juvenile dependents, etc., cut from
$10,000 to $4,000.
Territorial treasurer’s stenograph
ers’ salary cut to $4,200.
Treasurer's traveling expenses cut
from $1,000 to $600.
Banking Board expense item cut
from $2,000 to $1,000.
j Sanitation and quarantine Item
■ slashed, appropriation for assistant
j health inspector being stricken.
The items are all for two years un
til the next legislative session.
One Increase Made
The emergency Item, providing $2,
500 for legal counsel, prosecution, etc.,
was increased to $10,000,
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CANOE PASS PACKING CO.
27-10t By P. W. LEG, Supt.
BE INTERIOR
In a recent Issue of the Seattle
Times, J. J. Underwood furnishes the
following story on the railroad situa
tion:
Every position in connection with
the Alaska railroad is filled and there
are more than 45,00 applicants on the
waiting list.
Alaska is flooded with labor and
many will be unable to find employ
ment. All extra labor needed will be
engnged in Alaska.
As far as possible the timber used
In construction will be cut from the
Alaskan forests, the commission hav
ing been given full authority to use
nil tho timber It may need without
paying a duty to the forestry bureau.
The work on the railroad this year
will be done on small contracts. No
big contracts will be let as the com
mission has not sufficient money to
pay for them. The bulk of the ap
propriation will not become available
before July 1.
Fairbanks will be the interior ter
minal of the railroad. The three
routes from the Nenana river to the
Tanana metropolis will be surveyed
this summer.
The railroad irom Ship (.trees to the
Matanuskn coal fleltls will not be
completed until next year.
When that section of the road is
completed the commission expects to
go on a paying basis immediately.
Thomas Higgs, r., member of the
Alaska Engineering Commission gave
out the foregoing crisp paragraphs of
Information pertaining to the Alaska
railroad this morning. Mr. Higgs ar
rived in Seattle last night from Wash
ington, and will leave for the north
on May G. He is accompanied by G.
F. Cramer, his private secretary. With
a million details to attend to, with a
thousand people waiting jobs and
hundreds of supply houses furnishing
bids and offering to furnish bids on
various knlds of supplies and equip
ment, Mr Higgs is extremely busy,
lie has no time to waste on non-essen
tials.
iwu uuiuui eiuimaBise iuu st rung |
ly that there Is already a large sur
plus of labor In Alaska,” he said. "And I
we haven't room for a single man In j
pny position. As far as possible we
give all the work to the people al
ready in Alaska. They are the peo
ple who have borne the brunt of the
battle up there and have made the
railroad a necessity.
"Not much construction will be
done this year. We haven’t got the j
money to pay for it. The road will
be completed from Ship Creek to the
Matanuska coal fields next year, and
we hope It will be placed on a paying
basis immediately. There is no rea
son why it shouldn't. There is e
. nough freight in coal to make it pay,
and we expect to have a considerable
tonnage from the Broad Pass country
as soon as the line is completed fur
ther up the Susitna. This, however,
is a couple of years in the future.
“All work this year will be done on
prnall contracts. We will cpt as much
timber as we need from the Alaskan
forests
"I am going into the Fairbanks re
gion to survey the routes from the
mouth of the Nenana river to Fair
banks. Fairbanks will be the inter
ior terminal. It is not mentioned in
the official announcements of the
routes because there are three feas
ible lines from the mouth of the Ne
nana.
"The Nenana coal will be opened for
locan consumption. It is expected
that the regulations under which the
Alaska coal fields may be leased will
,be formulated and adopted within the
next thirty days, and the government
will be ready to consider leasing lands
fo responsible parties. It is expect
ed that the opening and development
pf the coal fields will be contempora
neous with the railroad construction.
Mr. W. C. Kdes is chairman of the
commission, chief engineer and sujper
intendent, and has the power of veto
on any subject. Mis headquarters
will be at Seward. Lieut. Frederick
Mears will be in charge at Ship Creek,
from which construction will begin,
f will not be on construction work un
til next year.”
Scores of people, all anxious to see
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Accident and Sickness Claims of $28,478.00 were paid,
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