The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-03-25
BIGGER LEGACY
SHARE TO COUNTY
MILWAUKEE TO GET LARGE
AMOUNT OF INHERITANCE TAX
UNDER NEW LAW.
INSURANCE BILLS HEARD.
Physicians Riddle Anti-Vivisection Meas
ure and 1t Probably Will Not
Be Passed.
INSURANCE BILLS HEARD.
LEDVINA IS IDOL OF SOCIALISTS.

! MADISON, Wis. March 19.-[ Spc
| cial. Milwaukee county will receive ap.
| proXimatcly twice as much as il now
receives in Inheritance tax fees after the
! passage of a law being framed 10y the
| Senate and Assembly committees ON tax.
alton of which Senator a. w. Sanboru
and Assemblyman NJ. j. Cleary are
chairman. This has been decided upon
after prolonged hearings. The matter
! of division of the tax will be in a Sepa-
rate law. Heretofore the county re-
tanned per cent. of the first $4,000 col
lected in Il year, 3 per cent. of the sec
ond $4,000 and , per cent. of all above
100000 Under the new law the coun'
ty will retain 10 per cent. = per cent. and
, per cent. In 1908 Milwaukee county
collected $4,000 in inheritance taxes,
of which it retained only $1,000 Under
the new bill it could have kept $1,000.
Prospects now are that Milwaukee, coun-
ty will profit by the altered law i'll 1909
rs some large inheritance tax fees al
ready have been collected, including
Sl13,69S.40 from the Pabst estate. The
administration of the law will be under
the department of the attorney general.
Insurance Laws UP.
ii'hl mss bl Tic leptui lli'tHhi tN III w
duced by Senator j. f. Lehr for the
modification of insurance legislation
adopted at the last Legislature, will be-
gin next week. The first measure will
be the bill which several companies now
outside the state claim they cannot com
ply with. This is the measure providing
that the insurance companies must fur
nish policy holders with ii statement on
semi-tontine or return dividend policies
Iy &c u, ln of
ings of those policies during the year.
Another bill prohibits any company
from writing both participating and non
participating business.
Last evening the joint committees on
banks and insurance held a second Joint
hearing on the bill which provides that
all statements both i'll fire and life insur-
ance policies made by the insured shall
be treated as representations and not as
warranties. Although the life insurance
companies today are, excepting in eases
of gross Measurements. treating policy
declarations as representations, they do
not desire that the custom inauguratcd
for the benefit of the insured shall be
enacted into law for the reason, as they
declare that such a law would be but
temptation to prospective policy holders
to make untrue declarations in the
knowledge that they would be treated
void the policy.
Among those present at last nights
hearing were George H. Noyes of the
Northwestern Life, Charles : Norris
OF the same company, Loyal Durand.
James Leedom and II w. Spence and
w. ID. Van Dyke representing the Mil
waukee board of fire underwriters
Cut UP Cats-as Usual
Kittens, dogs, sheep and rabbits will
continue to suffer death in Wisconsin
for the good of humanity. This is the
outcome of the hearing last night ON
Assembyman George L. Hambrecht's
bill against vivisection excepting under
certain conditions before the Assembly
committee on public health. Mr.. Ham
brecht introduced the bill at the instance
of the American Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty TO Animals.
DR. Warren b. Hill of Milwaukee; DR.
{. \. Harper, president of the state
board of health; DR.. Joseph Erlanger of
the university faculty and Rev. T.. G.
Updike of Madison opposed the bill
W hen the physicians got through with
the bill they made it look ridiculous.
Through trick of fate Asscmblyman
l.. w. Ledvina of Two Rivers. who is
no friends of Socialism, has been placed
IN the light of an apostle of the creed of
Victor l.. Berger and Eugene V. Debs
Mr.. Lcdvina early introduced an limo
cent bill at the request of Labor Com
missioner Beck. 1t took the usual
course. The Socialists jumped for the
bill as a panacea for certain ills and
lauded the name of Ledvina. 1t serves
n great need of the Socialist party in that
it provides for the collection of certain
statistics that they need in their propa-
gaula,