22nd Legislature Will Have The
Most Pre-Session Preparation
By JIM HUTCHESON
AP Legislative Correspondent
In contrast to most legislatures
in the States, the job of raising
more revenues will not be a ma
jor one facing Alaska lawmakers
when they open their 22nd. regu
lar session at Juneau Monday.
With a surplus in the treasury,
increases in motor fuel taxes and
truck fees have been the only
ones considered seriously in the
legislators’ pre - session discus
sions. They have won support as
a means of getting increased
funds for road work in the terri
tory.
The Legislative Council sug
gested both increases. Both were
booted around in the last session,
too, and then pigeonholded. The
heaviest guns leveled on the pro
posed increases came then—and
are coming now—from the truck
ing interests who complain that
they already are operating in the
face of government - subsidized
railroad competition under the
continent’s toughest trucking con
ditions.
There has been more advance
groundwork for the session this
time than before previous ones.
The first factor in that situation
is the Legislative Council. It is
the first time that such a body
has made a thorough study of
legislative problems between ses
sions and prepared specific sug
gestions. Another factor is the
many conferences that have been
held by legislators in their various
divisions, in which representa
tives of various groups have been
called in to lay their problems and
opinions on the table.
Other major problems on which
the council made specific recom
mendations included government
j reorganization, revision of the
I handling of juvenile cases and
I revision of the laws for public
improvement districts in the areas
which have grown up outside city
limits.
A government reorganization
bill is almost certain of passage.
Both Democrats and Republicans
I have expressed dissatisfaction !
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Proves Effective It Will j
Be Released This Spring
JUNEAU, Jan. J7—If evalua
tions of the new polio vaccine de
termine that it is effective, it will
be licensed and released for dis
tribution in the spring of 1955, ac
cording to information received
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Fine Job Printing ai The Nugget
with the present system. A re
organization bill was rushed thru
in the closing hours of the 1951
session, but it was dumped on
legal grounds. The legislators
considered a couple of bills on
the problem last session but pig
eonholed them until the Legisla
tive Council, set up by the 1953
legislature, could give more ex
tensive study to the problem than
a crowded 60-day session allowed.
Statehood, too, will be a big
subject. Legislation will be in
troduced for the calling of a
statehood constitutional conven
tion to lay the groundwork for
future statehood. At least one
legislator has announced his in
tention also of asking for another
statehood referendum to get a
clear indication of the voters. The
last one was held in 1946.
There also is sure to be a
sharp memorial addressed to
Congress to express the legis
lators’ dissatisfaction with the na
tional administration’s stand on
Alaska statehood. ^
Another subject of top interest
will be the report of the Investi
gating and Examining Committee
set up by the Republicans in 1953
to look into operation of terri
torial agencies and departments.
It has been completed but not re
leased.
A long list of appointments by
Republican Gov. Heintzleman
must come before the Democratic
dominated legislature for con
firmation. That, too, is always a
field in which the sparks can
fly.
Legislative action to try to bol
ster the depleted fund from
which unemployment benefits are
paid is another top problem.
There will be dozens of others
on major and minor subjects, too,
and it won’t be. long before they
start to fly.
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