Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-06
NEW LAWS IN FORCE.
ENAcTMENTs LAST LEGis.
LATuRE TAKE EFFECT.
Illinois Has 100 New Laws-some Of
the Most Important Ones and Their
Object4 Described Changes that
May BE Expected.

Something like $50 new laws enacted
by the last General Assembly went into
effect July /.
The most important acts of this Legis-
lature are the provisions for an art COM
mission, the State board which is to regu-
late the commission business on South
water street, the pawner's act, the en-
ployment act and the medical and legal
practice laws.
Ihe medical practice act bears date or
March Ii, and provides for the organiza-
ton of the State Board of Health within
tnree months after the passage Of the
Dill. This board will soon meet to formu-
late rules for the practice in this State
OF medicine, surgery, midwifery or ANY
otner system of treating human all
ments." Further on the act provides that
tnose who minister to or treat the SICK
or suffering by mental or spiritual means,
without the use of any drug or material
remedy shall not be examined. The
inconsistency of these two provisions has
gwen rise to some criticism, as by the
last quoted Christian Scientists and faith
nealers are exempted from the question
ing of the board of health.
The legal practice law makes possible
the revision of the obsolete practice laws
of Illinois, which are at present made
quate for the enormous volume of bust
ness, especially in he Cook County
courts, the Appellate Court Of the Chi
cago district and the Supreme Court. This
commission is already partly formed. 1t
IS composed of five members, one appoint
ed by the Governor and the others NOM
mated, one each by the Appellate judges
of the Appellate Court, the Chicago Bar
Association, the Illinois Bar Association
and the judges of the Illinois Supreme
Court. John S. Miller has been selected
by the Appellate Court judges. The COM
mission is to hold sittings in the Appellate
districts of the State and the secretary
of the body is allowed a salary of $4,000.
Theodore S. Chapman of Jerseyville,
former State Senator, has been appointed
pure food commissioner at a salary Of
1900 per year, with two assistants at
81 300 and six inspectors at So per day.
The pure food act provides that one Of
the assistants shall be an expert in the
matter of dairy products, and the other
a practical and analytical chemist. The
law covers food authorizations and makes
specifications as to the branding and label
ing of packages.
The law which provides for a municipal
pawn shop in Chicago is considered an es-
pecial benefit to the poor, and was secur-
ed only by earnest work on the part of
many Of Chicago's foremost business men.
The capital stock of the company $4,000,
has already been subscribed, and the
pawn shop will be opened as soon as pos
sible. In place of the 10 per cent now
charged on all articles pledged the new
shop will charge but l per cent per month
with an additional per cent where goods
have to be placed in storage and insured.
Another important law to the working
classes is that providing for the establish
ment of State employment bureaus.
Among the laws of Importance is the
commission to look after the shippers
interests in South Water street, Chicago,
composed Of A. M. Smith, w. III. Whit
comb, A NJ Crawford, Joseph Newman
and J. W. Stanton. The office is at No.
81 Marine building, Lake and La Sale
streets.
The truant school act for children pro-
vides for the establishment of a school
for truants of compulsory age. The flag
law makes it unlawful to use the rationale
emblem for an advertising medium. An
act for the establishment of a colony for
epileptics is also among the new laws,