The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1902-04-18

some t1end IN human form VINO at
tackled one our females be summarily
hanged for his atrocious act a howl
of Indignation would go up against
the whole South, of which Maryland
forms a part. And what crime has
the Filipino committed in refusing to
disclose the motives for resisting
benevolent assimilation" to which
neither he nor any of his people have
in any way agreed to. Will not the
the question arise in his mind whether
the Spanish mode of punish
ment was not preferable to the re-
fined and enlightened "water cure"
of the United States? Can he be
blamed for retaining the methods of
savagery, which he has inherited for
generations as being preferable to
that of our more enlightened means
of torture even if it is done in the
presence of a physician, which does
not in any manner detract from the
pain and agony. 1t is enough to dis
gust every right thinking citizen of
the United States. Yet why they
will stand by and see such cruelties
practiced without hindrance is past
our comprehension unless they are
commencing to realize that our
United States Army is the most
autocratic body in existence and that
it is almost useless to attempt to
question any of its acts.
EMPLOYEES INSURANCE BILL.
A bill, which was introduced by
Senator Lewis and became a law on
April 1st, is exciting considerable
comment throughout the State. 1t
is what is known as the Employees
Insurance Bill, and goes into effect
July LIST, 1902. Itmakes an employer
engaged in certain industries liable
in damages to any employee or his
family, who may be killed or injured
by the negligence of the employer, or
by the fellow-servant of the person
killed or injured. If the injured per-
son has been guilty of contributory
negligence, that is if the casualty has
resulted in the joint negligence, of
the employer, then the injured en-
ployee or his family is entitled to re-
cover an amount of damages pro-
portioned to the negligence of the
defendant The employers enumer-
ated as coming under the operations
of the law are those engaged in
operating coal or clay mines, quarries,
railroads, street railroads and trolley
| roads, and cities and towns or the
contractors, constructing sewers,
excavations or other physical struct-
ures. The succeeding sections of the
bill provide method of protecting
the employer from this liability for
damages by the creation of fund
for the insurance of each life. In
published interview Senator Lewis
who fathered the bill stated:
"Experience shows that in the rail-
way employment in this part of the
United States during the last reported
six years (1s95-19OD PSI or two
and half men are killed each year
for every 1 900 employed, and Stats
tics show that these fatalities are
practically uniform from year to
year, not varying 10 per cent. If,
then, the average fatality is PSI per
thousand, it will just cost that
amount to insure the average work
man for 81 900 in case of death.
"The like average in coal mining in
Maryland for 10 years is 1.49 per
thousand, which, accordingly, is the
sum necessary to insure miner for
81 900 in case of death.
1.-THE purpose of the bill is to form
cooperative insurance fund, the
employers paying half and the en-
ployes the other half (collectible by
the employers from their wages; the
fund to be placed in the hands of the
State Insurance Commissioner, who,
upon the death in the course Of en-
ployment of any railroader, miner,
quarryman or employee of the city
or county killed while engaged in the
building of sewers or other structures,
or any employee of a street railway,
is required to pay the widow or legal
representatives of the deceased the
sum of 81 900. The bill provides for
the payment in monthly installments
of So for every railroad employe,
$3.50 for every miner, ST.. 10 for every
quarryman, 60 cents for every per-
son employed on street railway
per year, and such like annual sums
for every person employed by cities
or counties upon the construction of
physical structures as the Insurance
Commissioner shall find to be re-
quisite, which will not exceed so
cents per capita year.
"Under this bill, if the employer be
a coal or fire-clay or quarry operator
and employs hundred men he has
to pay only 500 per year. fit be
railroad which employs a hundred J.