The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 21, 1945, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE-— JUNEAU, ALASKA WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1945 HOUSE SPLIT ONBILL FOR TAXBUREAU Strange Bedfellows Line Up-Governor's Votes Jump Fence BULLETIN—The Tax missioner measure was Com- passed this afternoon by the House by a vote of 19 to 5. The bill is effective January 1, 1946, When Robert Service wrote that phrase, “The Northern Lights have seen queer sights he must have been a politician with a cr tal ball foretelling yesterday battles in the House of Representa tives over the bill that may divorce the job of tax collection from the office of the Territorial Treasurer And certainly if Service had been in the gallery listening to the roll calls he would have added, “But the strangest they ever did see was the amazing picture of the “trying to rush things.” out of order, but ha g :12 Bk e b GRAND AT WHITE HOUSE OF PHILIPPINES The emergency clause was| ¢ ricken, and Representative Bess g s, who declared herself “A good I'm not going to see him rail-| " roaded,” reconsidered her votp to! force the bill into the next day. The Rules Committee got another workout when Peterson called Mrs ' reconsideration out of order | Cr | the rules read that no no-! i | | | because e o the oy prceeaing | SEVENl Defendanis Ar- Jask sy DRt Sty raigned Before Jurors Yesterday | day Three-Three Decision The Rules Committee was divided three and three on the question| and the Speaker ruled the recon- cideration in order. He was sus-| The Grand Jury for the 1945 term tained by the House, 14 to 9. |of court was (mmnel(\d yesterday Strange bedfellows found them- “‘”1‘ most of the members being selves on opposite sides of an ol | Juneau residents, only two from out argument when Representative Pet- ‘Of town. John J. Fargher was nam- erson moved to reconsider Mrs,|€d foreman. Cross' reconsideration notice im-| Juneau members are Lorene mediately. :Ahlers, Mrs. L. P. Dawes, Ernest Representative Talyor, who & M. Gilligan, Jessie L. Geeslin. John short time ago vigorously sought|G: Johnson, Jessie McCrary, Mrs ) to get reconsideration of Repre- |Laurel McKechnie, Mrs. Myrna Ma PRESIDENT SERGIO OSMENA smiles with Mrs, Osmena in happy response sentative Shattuck’s reconsideration | 2 Charles R. Lesher, George C. to the congratulations of an old friend at the reception in Malacanan, Messerschmidt, Mrs. Selma Pete: official Manila residence of the head of the Philippines government, on the Property Tax Bill, bucking Evan F.| g son, Mrs. May O. Tubbs, following General MacArthur’s transfer of civil authority to the Osmena A e orag, o8 that lssue 5| |y Chester L. Zimmerman, administration. Signal Corps Radiophoto. (International) well as Shattuck, yesterday found | Thomas S. Parke, Harriet Tucker. Y — himself objecting to Peterson’s| | From Petersburg- Mabel Owens. | From Skagway—George Repuzzi Deliberations on pending cases were sta -(l today. E————- To which Peterson supporter and fellow Republican Representative | Maurice Johnson replied, “This is | ANNOUNCING House conservative bloc voting right the first time in sixty days I have | down the line with their chosen seen Mr. Taylor espouse the cause! enemy, Governor Gruening of orderly procedure—it looks to me | In brief, the picture was this: like the old story of the pot and ! The subject, Senate Bill 37 to cre- the kettle.” ate the office of Tax Commissioner | Peterson’s motion failed 12 to 11 independent of the office of Terri-' Personalities torial Treasurer Oscar Olson. And More personalities were Il\mgi the argument, approximately 13 back and forth when a comprom- votes, including the minority con- ise amendment was sought on the, servatives, backing the bill which effective date of the act Gov. Gruening is himself desirous Peterson sought June 30, 1945, de- of passing and ten votes friendly claring Olson’s office could be ef-| ADVANCES MADE ROME, March Army Corps in the Adriatic Sector improved positions northeast cf R: venna and local advances were made in the Mezzano area yesterday. In other sections of front activity is limited to patrol op- ! Another one of those Delightful and Entertaining SUPPER DANCES e fiar%\o/fi ITALIAN FRONT 21.—The Eighth| the Il.\lmn; to Treasurer Oscar Olson feeling fectively turned over to the Tax Olson has been insulted doing Commissioner by that time, but the |cHonS ! futilely everything they could to amendment lost 12-11 and Repre-|g .’.“.".”__.—. s i keep the t collection work in sentative McCutcheon’s amendment | ATURDAY, MARCH 24 IOP.M.to 1 A.} Olson’s office carried 13 to 10 for an effective | TIDES TOMORROW *! ? Appointive Power date as January 1, 1946. . a0 o Cover Charge $2.09 per Couple On the first amendment attempt Representative Cross: offered an| ¢ LOW Tide 2:58a.m.: 64ft. e| Make Your Resecvations Eacly at the Hotel Desk to show a test of power, Repre- amendment to strike the $100,000 o Tugh Tide 9:07a.m.:133ft. e y Listtan T able Space sentative Taylor, leading the fight appropriation and replace it with|® oW Tide 16:01p.m.: 22ft. e! # ol for Olson's office, asked the ap- the sum of $30,000, declaring that|® TLSH Tide 22:50p.m.: 1261t o | pointive power for the Tax Com- the man who gets the job, “if he's| ® ® ® ® © © ¢ o o o o missioner job rest with Olson. o real efficiency guy” Here was the vote of the strange able to get the taxes collected for bedfellows: Against the amendment, that sum. The amendment lost 18 Badger, Diamond, Hennings, Hoopes, to 5. Huntley, Johnson, Krause, Linck, Representative Joe Diamond, Peterson, Pollard, Porter, Shattuck house wit, rose to his feet to de- cl TI'm sorry to e the gallery For the amendment were, Taylor, so filled tod Seems there's al- ought to be and Walsh. day ways an .w\f\ll lnl of talking here whenever it is.” With the bill still in second read- ing, it appeared likely that more wars were scheduled for today. S PRl Hanford, Vuko- McCutcheon, Hope, Peratrovich, vich and Lander. Johnson began the battle by attempting to take the Gavernor's appointive power for the job, scheduled to go to rormsr Internal Revenue Collector Sullivan, and give that pu\\Lr tne Board of Administration, That amendment failed as did Taylor’s amendment to the amend-' e sixth service on a subject tak- | ment to give the appointive power en from the Apostles’ Creed will be to Olson. conducted tonight Would Cut Sala of the Holy Trinity, Another Taylor amendment would the Rector, have cut the Tax Commissioner It Cross, Cain, Anderson, amendment s. SIXTH LENTEN SERVICE | AT EPISCOPAL CHURCH lU at the Church by W. Robert! Episcopal, the Rev. Webb. | Evening Prayer with appropriate ! failed 12 to 10, rising vote. Lenten and Evening hymngpwllll) pre- | When Taylor offered another cede the sermon. The service be-| amendment to put the Tax Com- gins at 8 o’clock. | missioner under the Treasurer's of- fice, in a new section of the bill, TAYLOR VISITS | Speaker Lander tossed the question' Le Vaun Taylor, of Anchorage, is| of the amendment’s order to the visiting in Juneau and is a gucst" Rules Committee. and after a at the Hotel Juneau. stormy conference, the Rules Com- | mittee salary to $5500 from $6,250. e i ——————— % | Empire Wani-aas tiing resulis! ; B ) | | reported the amendment CLOSE-O0UT | SPECIAL | CALO DOG and CAT FOO0D | SALEPRICEQ Qcdoz. Regular 15¢c pkg. TWO JUNEAU DELIVERIES 10:15 A. M. 2:15 P. M. DOUGLAS DELIVERY 10 A. M. MINIMUM—$2.50 2 | BBerts B CASH GROCERY PHONE 202 oRe=> 7 | Two Free Deliveries Daily 20th Century Meat Market PHONE 202 OCEAN FRESH AND ‘.. 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