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UNANIMOUS VOTE IS GIVEN EIGHT [SENATEMEASURES * Election Measures of the At torney General Thrown. Back for Revamping. Without a dissenting vote, eight Senate bills were passed yesterday by the Territorial Senate at a Ses sion lasting from 11.90 o’clock until <1:05 o’clock last night. Several mem orials were also passed and two sen ate bills, introduced at the request of the Attorney General, were quick ly referred back for revision for the reasons, as expressed by Senator Frawley, that “they showed sinister motives, the bills were not drawn in good form and indicated that in sufficient attention had been given to the details.” The two measures referred back to the introducers with instructions to have the Attorney General go over them again with care and attention were S. II. Nos. 46 and 23. The form -j er is relative to the duties of election | officers, fixing fines and penalties | for violations, and the latter is! amending section 7, Chapter 37 of the 1919 session laws relative to qualifications of voters at primary elections. Bills Passed By Senate. S. 13. No. 31—defining quallfica-| tions of electors, was passed will] an j amendment prohibiting natives notj having proper qualifications. S. B. No. G3, changing salary of Commissioner of Education to $5,00(1 per annum and enlarging the powers of School Boards relative to certain (hildrcn attending schools, was pass ed with little discussion. S. B. No. 64, relating to establish ment and maintenance of schools outside of incorporated towns or school districts, amending sections 1 and 6, chapter 18, session laws of 1919, was passed. One of the pro visions is that a school shall not be established unless 15 students are to attend. This has been raised from ten students. S. B. No. 42, relative to all taxes, fees or licenses received by Terri torial. commissions to he turned over to the Treasury of the Territory. ' special reference to the Board of Pharmacy, was passed, the emergen cy clause being added to the title. ! S. B. No. 37, relative to filing in iventories of property of the Terri torv was passed with the emergency 'clause added. | S. B. No. 62, also passed with little discussion, fixes the time of the annual election of School Boards outside of incorporated towns or in corporated , school districts and em powering the levying and collecting of taxes. | School Apportion Raised. K s. B. No. r>6. providing maintenance of public schools in incorporated j towns and repealing Chapter 2.S of the 1919 session laws was passed but not until after a sharp discus sion regarding raising of the amount of funds to be received from the territory. The previous amoifnt re ceived from the Territory has been not more than $15,000 n any one year. Senator Price moved to make this sum $20,000. Senator Hess mov ed to make the amount $17,500. The latter motion was lost and^ the former carried although Senators ■ Frawlay, Hess and Sundback voted ‘*pgainst it. f-. S. B. No. GO, lien on oil drilling ^outfits to secure payment for laboi was passed with several slight ■ amendments which regarded phrase ology. Laid on the Table. S. B. No. .12, Introduced by Senator Price, relative to a new general . election law and repealing the prim ary law, was laid on the table at ibe request of Senator Price. Senator Price stated the bill was given to the committee early in the session but had not received fair treatment and he had not received a fair chance to urge it through As the bill was a most Important one. and time would not now permit of its being taken up carefully and given proper attention, tie asked that it be laid on the table, the request being' granted. During llte discussions in tlic Senate upon the various bills re luting to educational laws. Com missioner of Education, L. 1). lien derson was present and gave val liable assistance. Withdraws One Bill. „ At the session of the Senate tlii> forenoon. Senator Hunt asked for unanimous consent to withdraw S B. No. 4G. defining offenses against the election laws. This was the bill drafted by the attorney general and yesterday referred back to have the details better worked out and - generally prepared in a better shape than it now exists. The request for unanimous withdrawal was granted ROAD CREW GOES NORTH FOR WORK NEAR HAINES Heralding the opening of Die . vork of the Alaska Hoad Comini' rion on the Haines-Porcupine road up the Chilkat Valley a crew ol eight men went north on the Este beth last night and will establish camps for the work. The work on the road will be from Wells on the Chilkat Kiver to join with tin old Porcupine Hoad. i W-W DANIEL WILUARD. Daniel WlJliard, president o£ the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, says that the measure Introduced by Representative Esch. will work out the transportation problem and that the outlook for the betterment of the railroads is Rood. ATTACHMENT IS SERVED UPON JUALIN MINES j Claims Made That Company Owes Approximately $5,700 to Two Firms. Suit was filed late yesterday by Lynch Brothers, diamond drill con tractors, and the Kaser-Davis Trans portation company against the Jn alin Alaska Mines company for ap proximately $5,700 that it is claim ed the company owes them for ser vices rendered. A writ of attachment was issued out of ttie U. S. Court, and Deputy Marshal A. E. Lucy left last night to attach certain prop erty at Jualin to cover the amount. George Howard left on the same boat with Marshal Lucy to act as watch man over tlie property for tlie court. Lynch Brothers, who did exten sive prospecting on tlie property of tlie mining company witli their di amond drills, claim that the com pany owes them approximately $4. 000 on account and that they have been unable to receive a settlement. The Kaser-Davis Transportation Co., operators of tlie mail boat Estebeth, claim that the company are indebted to them for approximately $1700 for the transportation of men and sup plies to and from tlie mines. It is understood that there are other cred itors in Juneau. Gene Vanophem, president of the Jualin Alaska Mines Company, writ ing to persons in the city from New York recently said that the company had been financed and would not only be able to wipe out all old bills but to start operations at Ju din early tills spring. AERIAL ARMADA FDR U, S, NAVY BEING PLANNED Denby Tells House Naval Committee That Aviation Has Been Neglected. WASHINGTON, I). C.. April 26. Urging that the needs of the C. S Navy for an adequate aerial auxil iary be given full consideration. Secretary of Navy Edwin Denby. in 1 hearing before the House Com mittee on Naval Affairs, declared that up to the present time aviation! has been given insufficient attention by tlie people. Congress and Un American Nay. Plans, he said, for' a complete air fleet are now being1 ptepared for submission to Congress, j “The modern fleet is blind unless it has air auxiliaries," lie told tin j Committee, adding that 'I hope by j working out the present plans ii will always be assured that an Am erican fleet will never meet a hos- j 'ile force which cver-matches it ln| Hie air.’’ «-fa I STEAMER MOVEMENTS ! i —- I Now Bound North NORTHWESTERN due to arrive I tomorrow afternoon. CITY OF SEATTLE scheduled to arrive Wednesday 5 a. in. Scheduled Sailings ADMIRAL WATSON leaves Se attle tonisht. PRINCESS ALICE leaves Van couver Wednesday. ! JEFFERSON scheduled to sail ' , front Seattle Wednesday. Southbound Sailings CITY OF SEATTLE southbound Wednesday 2 p. m. , ■---■ WILL NOT LET PIONEER HOME BARS DOWN YET Senate Refuses Request of Ketchikan to Admit Man to Sitka Home. Persons to be admitted to the Pi oneer's Home at Sitka, must be pioneers of the Territory for the full five years, as now required, according to a vote taken in the Territorial Senate this forenoon. The question was brought up on Senate Joint Resolution No. in troduced this forenoon by Senator i Hunt, this resolution requesting that the Board of Trustees of the Pion eer’s Home admit William Canton wine to that institution. The resolu-J tion was accompanied by a letter from the Ketchikan city council stat-j ing that Mr. Cantonwine was now helpless and dependent upon charity. Senator Chamberlin was against the resolution stating that to permit such an incident to pass without pro test would be letting down tiie bats] to the home. “The Pioneers' home is for a special purpose and although the; present case is meritorious, other cit ies have the same kind of cases," said Senator Chamberlin. Senator Frawley was also against the resolution as it would establish a bad precedent. Senator Chamberlin again spoke on the question saying there was on indigent fund to take care of all cases like the one presented. Senator Price believed that per ; mitting -the present case would do1 the Territory an injustice. Senator Hunt, in defense of the resolution, stated that the man in; question was unable to work, being; badly crippled with rheumatism and on the verge of partial paralysis of his lower limbs and the city of Ketchikan had no remedy. The vote on the resolution as to its passage was as follows: Ayes — Britt. Collins and Hunt; noes—Cham berlin, Frawley, Price and Sundback. Senator Hess passing. House Bills Received. Many House measures were re ceived by the Senate this morning and all were referred to committees. The following were the House meas ures sent to the Senate committees tills forenoon. H. B. No. 9—Providing for al lowances to aged persons. H. B. No. 28.—Branding of rein deer. H. B. No. 34.—Changes in probate laws. H. J. M. No. 18—Establishment of insane within the Territory. H. J. M. No. 21. Extending geo - detic survey work in Alaska and | erection of a lighthouse at Cape; Spencer. H. J. M. No. 17.—Election of gov ernor of the Territory. H, J. M. No. 20.—Appropriation by Congress for appropriation of $40,000 to be used in investigating water power in Alaska. II. J. M. No. 2.—Survey of wood pulp throughout Alaska. SENATE REFUSES TO RECEDE UPON EIGHT HOUR BILL The Territorial Senate this fore noon absolutely refused to recede up on the eight-hour bill. It will be remembered that the tletchell eight hour hill passed the House and was sent to the Senate. A substitute was presented in the Senate, a short measure designating eight hours to be the legal day’s work and all extra hours to be overtime. This sub stitute w-as passed by the Senate in place of the House measure. Hearing of Charges in Governor Sinking Delayed SKATTl K, Was*., April 20.— II urings by the Federal Hoard of Steamship Inspectors of charges of negllgenco against Pilot Maiden and Third Mate Wage in connection with tlie sinking of the steamer Governor following a collision with the cighter West Maitland off Port Townsend, Wash., April 1, were postponed today because of the ill i hs of Marden and failure of wit nesses to appear The probable fu ture date of the hearing lias not been set. Craniums of London People Growing Round 1.0NOON. April 26. Citizens ot London are growing round-headed, according to anthropologists, who say this change is due to the in e union of peoples from Middle Kurope. It is said this tendency toward globular formation of tlie cranium; has artiounied to two per cent with in the last 200 years. "Tlie old British inhabitants "were’ long-headed and they have been su-| preme in initiative, governing ca pacity and colonizing genius." saysi a commentator. "The round heads I are lacking in initiative, but they huve a great capacity for patient; labor." I AN ASSISTANT SECRETARY. Klioi Wadsworth, of Massachusetts woe recently appointed as ao Assist* I ant Secretary of wax. This la the latest portrait of Mr Wadsworth. HOUSE POSTPONES INITIAL READING BRITT FISH BILL Refers it to Fish and Game Committee Without Read ing for First lime. The Britt Fisheries Bill, which passed the Senate lust Saturday by a unanimous vote was received in the House of Representatives yester day and without being read the first time was referred to the Committee on Fish, Fisheries and Game, Chair man Hunter. Printed copies of the hill with amendments adopted by the Senate written in have been dis tributed among the House members. Eight other Senate hills were re ceived by the House, read tor the first time and referred to the prop er committees. These include. Sen ate Bill No. 52, providing for al ter:.-tion of boundaries of incorpo rated towns; No. 33, relative to fix ing the salary of the Secretary of the Territory; No. 07. relative to I the appointment of a law drafts-! man and creating a law draft board; : No. 53, relative to the purchase by j the Territory of the Seward Penin >■1113 railroad and carrying an ap-' npopriation of $50,000; No. 47, for the regulation of and prescribing fees 'or corporations; No. 59, providing a commission to collect an exhibit for the mining exposition of tile Ameri can Mining Congress at Chicago next October, and No. 39 relative to abolishing the office of the Territorial I | Mine Inspector. We have had 35 years experienc in buildina' tar roofs and repairing See E. Ellingen or Phone 136. adv , - --- A FRESH SHIPMENT OF AUGUSTINE & KYERS' CANDIES HAS JUST ARRIVED BUTLER, MAURO DRUG CO. 96 Front Street Postoffice Substation No. I SHAVING COMFORTS Everything for the man who shaves himself. Now on display at BRITT’S PHARMACIES FRONT ST SEWARD ST BAR ASSOCIATION TO ASK HEARING ON PROBATE BILL Says Will Complicate Rather Than Relieve Matters— Ask to Be Deferred. A meeting of the Bar Association was held last night at the offices of Judge John R. Winn, President cf the Association for the purpose! of discussing House Bill No. 34. which amends the probate law of the Territory. Serious objections were 'raised to some of the features of the bill; and., on account of the length of the bill, j and the fact that it simply amended; certain sections of the existing law, j [the members were unonimously of the opinion that it would be better not to pass this bill at this time. It was decided that the members of the bfir of Juneau, together with Messrs. B. O. Graham and A. J. Dimond, attorneys who are here from Cordova, should ask for a hearing before the Judiciary committee ol the Senate when the bill comes up for discussion, for the purpose of giving reasons why the bill should not be passed. It is claimed by the attorneys that the amendments would only make the present law on the subject more lomplicated; and, on account of the fact that there are so many amend ments to the present law, it would he difficult for a layfnaH, or anyone other than a trained lawyer to tell just what the law is; and it would probably lead to mistakes and dis putes over estates In outlying pre cincts where there are no attorneys and where the commissioners are not usually men trained in the law. In all probability the suggestion will be made to the Senate that the whole matter be deferred until the next session, when a hill should be drawn early In the session re-writing the whole probate code and adding the necessary changes and repealing the present law altogether. This will get the whole probate law Into one act; and the commissioners and tlir.:o interested in estates will have all the law on the subject before J • hej-i in one hook instead of being! obi’ged to constantly refer from onej '•plume to another rs would he the chse were House Bill No. 34 en-1 acted. TRANSPORTATION FOR CREW IS ARRANGED The United States Customs Ser vice is arranging transportation for the erew of the Kamchatka, which was burned near Unimak Pass, to Seattle, and for subsistence pending departure to place from which ship ped. The arrangements are being made by Deputy Collector of Cus toms N. E. Bolshanin of Dutch Har bor. or any other time - Day and Night - BURFORD’S AUTO SERVICE EDDIE and AL Phone 314 NUGGET SHOP SERVICE The policy of the Nugget Shop will be to’give you the best for the least possible money.* To that end we have, at your service, Mr. R. L. Douglas, an expert watchmaker, formerly of Victor’s, Seattle, and Mr. F. J. Citek, an expert manufacturing jeweler and stone-setter, formerly of Jos. Mayer & Bros., Seattle. These men are experts in their respective lines, and the Nugget Shop assures you of a superior service for your watch and .jewelry work. THE NUGGET SHOP ROBERT SIMPSON, Manager. DOWN WITH THE WAR PRICES NEW GOODS AT NEW LOW PRICES Ladies’ pure thread Silk Hose in brown, black, and white. Former price $2.50, Now per pair .. .''....I.$1.25 Ladies’ pure thread, All-Silk, ribbed top, Hose, Regular $4.00, Now .. ..2.50 Kayser Silk Hose,' in black and brown, $2.50 to 3.95 Children’s Bear Brand Hosiery, regular 60c to 75c, Now, per pair.40 v o 9 We have taken a big loss by reducing prices. Every thing in the store back to pre-war prices. THE LEADER DEPARTMENT STORE FRONT STREET OPPOSITE FERRY WAY Open evenings until 9 o'clock More New Goods ' ' ■■ ,£j" U' . * *. **: * • <■ ,< * i . y •; w '' ‘b ■' Just Arrived - A Large Shipment of Drygoods Including Wool Goods, Silks, Ginghams, Percales and other Wash Goods. Also Linings, Cretonnes, Scrims, Tapestries, Curtains, Laces, Collars, etc. LET US SHOW YOU THESE Remember the last Friday of each month is REMNANT DAY. WE sell all short ends at HALF PRICE on this day. * ' < Goldstein’s Emporium “Everything for Everybody” l