The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 1, 1929, Page 8

MANY MEMBERS ABSENT;PLANS ARE DELAYED Almost 50 Per Cent of Leg- islators Missing — Or- ganization Plans Late With the arrival of the steamer Alameda from the south today, it apparent that slmost 56 per cent of the members of the Legislature will not reach Juneau before Sunday. Fourteen of the lawmakers are in the city awaiting the gavel of Secretary Karl Theile to call the body to order next Mon- day morning. Of the 14 who arrived, five are members of the Senate and nine of the House. Three Senators and seven House members are still to arrive. Most of them will come on the steamer Queen, but at least three are not expected to be pres- ent until later next week Plans in Obeyance In the absence of such a large proportion of its membership, there has been little definite planning for the organization of either the Senate or House. It has been manifestly impossible for members to hold a general caucus and none is expected before Sunday, if then. The positions of Chief Clerk of the House and Secretary of the Senate are pending with several possible candidates in the field. No definite information was available as to candidates for President of the Senate or Speaker of the House. All of these matters were being dis- cussed, it is true, but it seemed ap- parent today that the entire or- ganization plans were still in a formative stage. Only three members of the Legis- lature arrived on the Alameda. These were Senators W. A. Steel, First and J. H. Anderson and Rep- resentative A. N. Nynel of the Sec- ond Division. The latter Division is the only one to have a ma- Jjority of its delegation present. List vi Arrivals The personnel of members pre- sent included: First Division—Sen- ator W. A. Steel, Representatives Grover C. Winn and Allen Shat- tuck. Senator Charles Benjamin and Representative P. C. McCormick will be on the Queen Sunday, and Representative A. H. Ziegler prob- ably will arrive next Tuesday on the steamer Alaska. Senators Sund- quist and Anderson and Represen- tatives C. J. Woofter, Henry Burgh and A. N. Nylen of the Second, are here, and Representative Alfred J. Lomen will be here Sunday. From THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1929. he Third Division, Senator A. J. Dimond and Representatives J. H. Murray and E. R. Tarwarter are the only members to arrive. The Fourth is represented here today by Senator J. W. Dunn and Rep- {resentatives Walter Fisher and R. C. Rothenburg. Senator Frame and Representa- tive Frank H. Foster of the Third. and Senator L. C. Hess and Repre- sentative H. J. Donnelly of the Fourth will arrive on the Queen. This will leave missing, Represen- tative Joe McDonald of the Fourth who will arrive Tuesday, and Rep- resentative J. N. McCain of the Third, who is expected next Friday AR S TERHUNE RETURNS FROM TRIP WEST; FUR CATCH LIGHT H. W. Terhune, Executive officer of the Alaska Game Commission returned on the Northwestern from a trip to Cordova, Seward, Anchor- age.and Fairbanks, at which places he conferred with game wardens about various official matters. He has been away since February 11. In commenting on the fur catch for the season just closed, Mr. Ter- hune said that it is generally less than that of last year. Some com- munities reported an unusual scar- city of fur bearing animals while others are more nearly normal, but the average throughout the country is conciderably less than that of 1928, he said. e WILL LEAVE FOR CITKA Floyd G. Betts, of the U. S. Pub- lic Survey department here, will leave on the Queen Sunday for Sitka, where he will be for a week in charge of public land surveys. 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Juneau people who struck were high in their praise of the fine manner in which the offi- cers of the ship handled the situa- tion, and of the perfect order that prevailed. Purser M. W. Wilcox, of the Ala- meda, was in that capacity aboard the Aleutian and today told in de- tail of the accident. He said that the ship was sheered from her course by powerful tide rips just as she was passing the Maude Island Light, that marks the most treach- erous place in the Narrows, at 11:30 o'clock Saturday night. capt. J. G. Nord, on the bridge at the time, used all the power of the ship's twin screws in a vain effort to counteract the effect of the tide, but the shore was close and the vessel struck, and was held on the rock ledge. 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As far as could be determined she had taken no water. Her modern con- struction with double bottom was undoubtedly responsible for the comparatively small damage done. Under her own power the vessel steamed toward Seattle and when near Waldron Island the passen- gers were transferred to the Ala- | meda that had been hastily out- fitted and sent to meet her. Soon after reaching her home port the Aleutian went in dry dock, her cargo being first changed to ‘he holds of the Alameda. It was found that no cargo was damaged. The Alaska Line went to great length to insure the comfort of the passengers over the time that they were awalting the sailing of the Alameda. After their arrival on | the Alameda they were each hand- ed, by the companys’ ageni, a $10 bill for hotel expenses for the night and in other respects were given every consideration. 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